Endava

Financial Services

PrincipalProductOwner

£115–155k ~AI est. London, England, United Kingdom FULL TIME
The Brief

“Principal Product Owner at Endava. Skills: Merchant acquiring, Payment lifecycle, Product ownership. Shape merchant acquiring capabilities. Contribute to product domains”

What You'll Achieve.

Improve merchant experience; Improve operational efficiency; Improve control; Improve platform flexibility; Reduce manual effort; Simplify fragmented journeys; Improve data quality; Improve data traceability; Create single source of truth

Industry & Context.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

Complex problems; Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Proven experience as a Product Owner, Responsibility for roadmap, backlog, prioritisation, Stakeholder alignment experience, Understand end-to-end merchant acquiring lifecycle, Experience with APIs, Experience with event-driven services, Experience with data warehouses, Experience with CRM, Experience with portals, Experience with processor integrations, Experience with finance platforms, Experience with reporting platforms, Confident operating in multi-stakeholder environments, Experience with formal governance, Experience with risk considerations, Experience with compliance considerations, Experience with audit considerations, Experience in consulting, Experience in client-facing product delivery, Experience in transformation programmes, Stakeholder management experience, Delivery discipline experience

Nice to Have

Experience with AI-enabled delivery techniques, Experience with agentic tooling, Experience with AI-assisted software engineering, Experience with merchant onboarding, Experience with terminal lifecycle management, Experience with outlet lifecycle management, Experience with customer state, Experience with payment switch products, Experience with gateway products, Experience with operations tooling, Knowledge of open banking, Knowledge of partner models, Knowledge of revenue-share models, Knowledge of Pay by Bank journeys, Knowledge of alternative payment methods

What You'll Do.

Shape merchant acquiring capabilities

Contribute to product domains

Translate requirements into outcomes

Challenge assumptions

Bring product ownership expertise

Work with client stakeholders

Work with operations teams

Contribute to product vision

Contribute to roadmap

Contribute to backlog

Translate business objectives into epics

Translate pain points into epics

Translate regulatory considerations into epics

Translate control requirements into epics

Define phased releases

Define target-state outcomes

Support evolution of products

Support delivery teams

Make trade-off decisions

Validate released functionality

Participate in governance forums

Participate in steering forums

Participate in stakeholder forums

Translate progress into narratives

Translate risks into narratives

Translate trade-offs into narratives

Support pre-sales activities

Support proposition shaping activities

Define product direction

Connect short-term decisions to long-term goals

Enable multi-processor

Converge point-of-sale and e-commerce

Create differentiated payment products

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Client stakeholders; Engineers; Architects; Analysts; Data teams; Operations teams; Product stakeholders; Commercial stakeholders; Finance stakeholders; Engineering stakeholders; Architecture stakeholders; Data stakeholders; Senior business stakeholders; Product leaders; Merchant operations teams

Communication Scope

Business narratives; Clarity

Process & Methodology

Roadmap, Backlog, Prioritisation, Release plans, MVP scope, Phased releases

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