Endava
Financial Services
PrincipalProductOwner
“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.
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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