Product Lead, Core Banking Platformnew

Job Description

The Product Lead for Core Banking Platform will unify how the bank prioritises investment in Core Banking, building a single coherent roadmap and creating scalable ways of working across the businesses the platform serves.

We've proven the platform in Real Estate, with over 80% of originations now running on the platform. This role decides which platform capabilities deliver long-term business value as that proof point extends into Structured Lending and Savings.

Key Responsibilities

Real Estate — Sustaining & Scaling

• Represent Real Estate's requirements through the 13 in-flight servicing readiness initiatives, Portfolio migration (Q1 2027) and full retirement of the dual-platform estate (Q2 2027).
• Shape the business case for bridging drawdowns as a platform capability — a stretch target for end of 2026.

Structured Lending — Build Support

• Represent Structured Lending's requirements as it builds toward real accounts live in Q1 2027.
• Own the business case for moving off the legacy platform and unlocking new proposition capability such as multi-currency.

Savings Onboarding

• Represent Savings' requirements — the largest book the platform will carry, and the true test of it operating at volume.

Strategic Roadmap Management

• Own and evolve the Core Banking Platform roadmap by gathering and summarising demand across Real Estate, Structured Lending and Savings.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (e.g. Core Banking delivery, Engineering, Compliance, Finance) to prioritise initiatives that deliver ROI, reduce platform risk exposure, and align with the Bank's strategic goals.
• Track progress against platform simplification — six legacy platforms retired by 2029 as each book completes its move to Core.

Demand Shaping & Prioritisation

• Facilitate structured collection, documentation, and prioritisation of platform requirements and use cases across Real Estate, Structured Lending and Savings.
• Support business lines to translate platform requests into clear product requirements – who is impacted, what the underlying need is, what success looks like.
• Maintain a data-led view of platform performance and customer/colleague impact across all business lines on the platform, grounding prioritisation in evidence rather than stakeholder volume.

Platform Constraint & Capacity Management

• Partner with both the Core Banking Delivery Lead and Engineering Manager to maintain a clear, shared view of platform capability, technical debt and delivery capacity as build activity ramps up.
• Own trade-off decisions where business lines compete for platform capacity, escalating to the CPO where consensus isn't possible.
• Identify opportunities to build shared, reusable platform capability rather than one-off, business-line-specific solutions.

Business Case & Value Realisation

• Build and support business cases for platform investment using real, in-flight examples as reference points.
• Ensure platform initiatives have robust business cases and stakeholder buy-in to move swiftly into delivery.

Cross-functional Collaboration & Demand/Delivery Partnership

• Act as the bridge between business line product leads (Real Estate, Structured Lending, Savings) and the Core Banking delivery team.
• Bring a mindset of continuous discovery and structured prioritisation to platform demand.
• Act as the escalation point for platform-related roadmap conflicts between business lines.

Value This Role Will Add

• Introduces a single, coherent demand function to the Core Banking Platform, rather than business lines competing for priority independently.
• Owns business outcomes (not just requirements-gathering) such as successful Savings onboarding, Real Estate back-book savings, and Structured Lending's move off Ambit.
• Aligns platform investment with the bank's platform simplification goal — six legacy platforms retired by 2029, consolidating onto one strategic core.
• Builds coherence across every business line on the platform by setting a single, credible roadmap.
• Accelerates delivery through upfront shaping, prioritisation, and a clean demand/delivery split with the Core Banking PM team.
• Elevates the platform's credibility across the bank by clearly articulating the value and rationale behind prioritisation decisions.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in product management, ideally in the financial services or fintech industry.
• Proven track record of launching and managing successful digital products.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen eye for detail.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships across teams.
• Experience with agile methodologies and tools such as JIRA, Trello, or similar.
• A passion for innovation and a deep understanding of customer needs and market trends.

Additional Information

Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:

• Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity, Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment
• Free access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health app
• Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns, mental wellbeing and more general queries around family, work, housing, and health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounts on gym membership
• Contributory pension scheme & death in service

Your Lifestyle - It’s important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when you’re enjoying your leisure time.

• Minimum of 27 days holiday per year
• Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday scheme
• Discounts on gym membership nationwide
• Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands
• Community support and charitable giving

Your Contribution - We’re focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.

• Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our success
• Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done