Senior Product Owner
Posted 1 week ago by IntaPeople
£500 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
Cardiff
Summary: The role of Product Owner involves leading the development of a mortgage origination product for a FinTech company, requiring strong communication skills with senior banking stakeholders. The position is contract-based for six months, with a hybrid working arrangement in Cardiff. The ideal candidate will have experience in financial services and a solid understanding of product life-cycle management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Shape the direction of a mortgage origination product used by large financial institutions.
- Gather and write user stories, set sprint goals, and prioritize backlogs.
- Work closely with engineers and UX designers to ensure product development.
- Plan releases and manage product roadmaps.
- Communicate effectively with senior banking stakeholders.
Key Skills:
- Previous experience as a Product Owner or similar role in financial services.
- Intimate knowledge of loan agreement administration/servicing.
- Hands-on experience with product life-cycle management.
- Proficient in tools like Jira and Azure DevOps.
- Strong understanding of MVP versus “nice to have” features.
- Technical understanding of Postman, SQL tools, and API testing is a plus.
- Able to analyze user data to drive product improvements.
Salary (Rate): £500/day
City: Cardiff
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Finance
Product Owner – Mortgage Origination | Contract | Outside IR35
6-month contract
Cardiff - Hybrid - 2 days p/week onsite ideally
Outside IR35
£400–£500/day DOE
We’re hiring an experienced Product Owner for a growing FinTech focused on digital lending. You’ll be shaping the direction of a mortgage origination product used by large financial institutions. You must be able to speak the language of banks and hold your own in conversations with senior stakeholders.
What we need:
- Previous experience as a Product Owner (or similar role – e.g. Business Analyst or Scrum Master) in the financial services sector
- Intimate knowledge of the administration/servicing of a Loan agreement.
- Previous experience as a Product Owner, or similar role in software delivery with hands-on experience of managing aspects of the product life-cycle. (i.e. Business Analyst, Scrum Master)
- Confident communicator with senior banking stakeholders
- Skilled at gathering and writing user stories, setting sprint goals, prioritising backlogs
- Hands-on with tools like Jira, Azure DevOps
- Able to work closely with engineers and UX designers to get things built
- Strong sense of MVP vs “nice to have”
- Experience planning releases, managing product roadmaps
Nice to have:
- Exposure to competitor lending products
- Technical understanding (Postman, SQL tools, API testing, etc.)
- Ability to analyse user data and issues to drive improvements
You’ll be working in a fast-paced team that builds, improves and ships real software. No fluff – just getting stuff done.
Start date: ASAP
IR35: Outside
Location: Remote UK
If you’ve delivered digital lending products before and know how to drive a product forward while juggling stakeholder expectations – we want to hear from you.