Product Owner - Credit Cards Platform

Spencer Rose are seeking an experienced Product Owner to support the migration of Credit Cards, Sales and Acquisition journeys from on-premises infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Urgent start, initial 3 month contract.

Start: ASAP
Location: Chester - 2 days a week onsite
Rate: £400-430 per day Inside IR35
Duration: 6 months initial contract

The role will focus on collaborating with business management teams to gather, refine and prioritise requirements, translating them into actionable work items for a newly established feature team. The Product Owner will ensure the team operates autonomously, delivers business value and minimises dependencies on the customer through effective planning, stakeholder engagement and decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather, analyse and prioritise business and technical requirements.

• Translate business needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria and a prioritised product backlog.

• Communicate requirements to the feature team, ensuring clarity of scope, objectives and expected outcomes.

• Enable the team to work independently by proactively resolving blockers and managing dependencies.

• Align delivery priorities with business objectives, migration milestones and customer expectations.

• Work closely with technical teams to support the successful migration of Credit Cards, Sales and Acquisition journeys to GCP.

• Manage stakeholder communications, risks and issues, ensuring transparency and timely decision-making.

• Drive continuous improvement, delivery quality and incremental business value throughout the contract.

Key Skills and Experience

• Proven experience as a Product Owner within banking or financial services, preferably in the credit cards domain.

• Strong understanding of Agile delivery, backlog management, user story development and prioritisation.

• Experience working with cloud migration programmes, ideally involving GCP.

• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and decision-making skills.

• Ability to lead cross-functional teams, work independently and drive outcomes with minimal customer dependency.

If you are available and have the above experience, APPLY NOW and I will call you first thing in the morning to discuss further.