Senior Platform Owner - Payments Platform

Hours: Premanent, Full time 35hr, Hybrid working Closing Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 We're looking for a Senior Product Owner - Payments to take strategic ownership of one of Skipton's most important technology capabilities. Our Payments Platform supports the movement of money across member, colleague, finance and operational journeys, so the decisions you make will have a real impact on the people we serve.   You'll set the platform vision and roadmap, define how payment services are consumed across the Society and bring together product, engineering, operations, finance, risk, compliance and supplier partners. From improving resilience and payment visibility to shaping future capabilities across Open Banking, ISO 20022, Confirmation of Payee and payment hub evolution , you'll help us modernise safely and with purpose.   This is a rare opportunity to create clear ownership around a complex payments estate and build a platform that balances today's operational needs with tomorrow's innovation. If you enjoy turning strategy into action, influencing across organisational boundaries and creating technology that people can trust, we'd love to hear from you.   At Skipton, we're founded on fairness. We exist to do right by our members and we believe that starts with doing right by our people. So whoever you are and whatever you bring, there's a place for you here and a genuine plan for where you go next.   What You'll Do   Every day at Skipton is innovation day. Join our Technology team and you'll discover that we're constantly focused on real challenges as we build the tools that get things done for our members, quicker than you imagine.   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…