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# Senior Platform Owner - Payments Platform

- **Company:** Skipton Building Society
- **Location:** Skipton, United Kingdom (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £57,875
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Routing, System Availability, Technical Debt, ISO 20022 Standard
- **Published:** November 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5960205263

## About the Role

We're looking for a strategic product or platform leader who can create clarity in a complex environment and bring people together around shared outcomes.

 * Experience owning or materially shaping a complex technology platform, product or critical enterprise capability.

 * Strong understanding of payments, financial services technology or another regulated, high availability environment.

 * Experience creating multi year roadmaps that balance customer value, operational performance, risk and technical modernisation.

 * The ability to connect legacy complexity with future architecture using clear service boundaries, APIs, events, automation and observability.

 * Strong leadership and influencing skills across engineering, operations, finance, risk, security, architecture and supplier teams.

 * Experience managing platform risk, regulatory requirements, supplier relationships, budgets or investment cases.

 * A collaborative, evidence led approach, with the confidence to challenge assumptions and make clear trade offs.

## Description

As Senior Product Owner - Payments, you'll own the mission, roadmap and performance of the Payments Platform. You'll work through a federated model, creating clear direction while enabling teams across Skipton to consume payment capabilities safely and consistently.

 * Define and communicate a multi year Payments Platform vision, roadmap, service catalogue and scorecard.

 * Own payment domain standards, including routing policy, payment data, payment events, reconciliation requirements and control evidence.

 * Prioritise a platform backlog that balances member value, regulatory change, resilience, modernisation and technical debt.

 * Lead payment risk, security and regulatory readiness across areas such as operational resilience, PCI, Confirmation of Payee, fraud controls and ISO 20022.

 * Partner with product, engineering, operations, finance, risk, compliance and architecture teams to improve payment outcomes across the Society.

 * Shape supplier strategy, investment cases and budgets, making platform cost, risk and value clear to senior stakeholders.

 * Build the future Payments Platform team and champion modern engineering, observability and continuous improvement.

We work in a hybrid way, balancing flexibility with collaboration. For this role, you'll typically spend three days a week in our Skipton office, with the remaining two days working from home.