Product Owner - Payment Services Platform, Edinburgh Edinburgh, Scotland
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Edinburgh, Scotland
52245 - 58050 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Wednesday 03 May 2023
Salary Range
£52,245 - £58,050Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
Edinburgh Based Product Owner - to work with New Payments Architecture (NPA) Team.
Job Description
Who is Lloyds Banking Group (LBG)?
We're the UK’s largest Digital, Retail and Commercial Bank with a focus on Helping Britain Prosper. We’re innovating products that help transform customer journeys – making millions of people’s lives simpler and better, all over the country, every single day. There’s never been a better time to be part of change – help us reinvent the boundaries of banking, and we’ll invest in your continued development, so you can craft your future career.
Where does the role sit
We’re looking to recruit a Team Product Owner (PO) to work in our New Payments Architecture (NPA) Lab, delivering the biggest change that Payments has seen this decade. NPA is a regulatory initiative that will change UK payments as we know them. Our NPA Lab sits in our Payment Services Platform (PSP), where our mission is to provide compliant and efficient payments capabilities for the Group and drive innovation to enable customers to move money confidently, quickly and securely.
New payment architecture (NPA) is a regulatory initiative that will change UK payments as we know them. Working closely with Industry, the NPA team is replacing the complexity of the existing payments landscape with a new, more efficient infrastructure that will benefit from enhanced security and resilience. This multi-million-pound initiative has a new partnership with a leading FinTech company and is looking for people who are interested in working with exciting, innovative new technologies, such as Cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS).
You'll play a pivotal role in realising our digital and data potential and crafting the Bank of the Future…Here’s what we’ll need from you:
- Product Owner experience ideally within a technology change environment, applying agile methodologies to optimise innovation development and delivery able to craft a product vision and define work to be done.
- Passionate and inspiring leadership qualities, empowering teams to tackle business problems and create customer value through delivering excellent solutions in response to customer needs.
- Ability to think ‘big’ but value incremental improvements with a data driven mindset
- Ability to influence alignment up and down the organisation and explain prioritisation decisions. Furthermore trusting and empowering the team with responsibility.
- Proactively drive the end-to-end delivery of initiatives through experiment cycles and facilitate the identification and management of new opportunities, ensuring projects are delivered safely and ethically, using help from our governance processes.
- Demonstration of competitor and opportunity awareness within the banking industry.
- Ability to move between technical and non-technical terminology.
Would be beneficial if you also had experience /knowledge of:
- Working with Software Engineers and cross-functional teams to deliver technology change
- Cloud Migrations (Private / Public/Hybrid) and SaaS projects
- Payment Services /processes within a financial Services environment.
- Fostering collaborative, empowered teams, nurturing them to take ownership of the relevant outcomes.
- Story telling capability, to bring concepts/ priorities to life.
...So what can we offer you in return?
In return, you’ll learn new skills, technologies, and approaches to software development. As a multi-brand, multi-channel business, we have the scale and reach to give you a diverse range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop and to help you achieve an exciting and fulfilling career!
We're focused on creating a values-led culture, and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all can make a real difference, together.
As well as a competitive salary, you’ll receive:
- A Discretionary Performance Share Award
- Generous pension contribution
- 30 Days leave plus bank holidays
- A flexible cash pot (4% of base salary) to spend on benefits or take as cash.
- Private health cover
- Share Schemes
So, if joining us at a critical and exciting time for our Payments transformation appeals and this role sounds like it could be for you, click apply below…Together we make it possible!
We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Did you know? We've been shortlisted for the Best Employer for Parental Support award at the Women in Tech Awards 2023.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
