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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Product Owner - Core Branch Technology - **Company:** Post Office Ltd - **Location:** London, UK - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** LTE (Telecommunication), SAP (Applications), Systems Integration, Transaction Processing (Computing), Performance Monitor, SAP S/4HANA, Legacy Systems - **Published:** July 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=595e1506b8c6e4cf ## About the Role * Proven experience in a product ownership or product management role within complex enterprise or financial systems environments * Significant hands-on experience with SAP ecosystems (essential), including S/4HANA and finance-related modules, with an understanding of how SAP underpins transaction processing, settlement, and financial flows * Strong experience defining and evolving core platforms and back-end products, particularly within financial processing, transaction systems, or regulated environments * Experience setting product vision, strategy, and roadmaps for platform-based products, with a focus on long-term capability, value, and sustainability * Experience shaping product direction within large-scale transformation programmes, ensuring alignment to enterprise architecture, SAP strategy, and contractual outcomes * Experience modernising legacy systems and transitioning them into SAP-centric or integrated enterprise platforms * Experience working across Finance, Technology, and Operations stakeholders, aligning product priorities with financial controls, audit requirements, and operational needs * Experience influencing and directing multiple teams and third-party suppliers, particularly in SAP delivery contexts, without direct task-level ownership * Strong experience managing complex system landscapes and integrations, including dependencies across EPOS, SAP, payments, and enterprise services * Experience using data, financial insight, and system performance metrics to drive product decisions and continuous improvement * Experience ensuring auditability, compliance, and financial integrity within product design and evolution Skills and Capabilities * Strong understanding of core systems, financial processing, and integrations * Ability to manage complex system landscapes, including SAP ecosystems * Strong product ownership, prioritisation, and delivery capability * Excellent stakeholder engagement across Technology, Finance, and Operations * Strong problem solving and decision making capability * Ability to manage risk, dependencies, and competing priorities * High attention to detail, particularly in financial and regulated environments * Clear and confident communicator across technical and business domains ## Description The Product Owner - Core Branch Technology is accountable for defining, shaping, and continuously evolving the core technology platforms that underpin branch operations, including transaction processing, settlement, financial flows, and integration with enterprise systems. This is a product-led role, responsible for setting the product strategic direction, vision, and long-term evolution of the core branch technology estate. The role ensures that platforms deliver measurable value to the business, maintain financial and operational integrity, and support the wider enterprise technology strategy. The role sits at the centre of a major transformation programme to modernise legacy systems, with a strong emphasis on SAP-based ecosystems (including S/4HANA and associated finance and retail platforms) as the foundation for future capability. The Product Owner is accountable for ensuring that the evolution of these platforms aligns to enterprise architecture, financial control requirements, and long-term product sustainability. Working closely with Finance, Technology, Transformation, Architecture, and Operations, the Product Owner ensures that core platforms are resilient, scalable, and integrated, supporting high-volume, business-critical branch services. 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