Product Owner (API Platform Experience)

JD

Role summary We are looking for a Product Owner / Technical Product Lead to shape and drive API platform capabilities within a complex financial services environment.

The role needs someone who can combine strong product ownership discipline with practical understanding of API ecosystems, API marketplaces, integration patterns, developer experience and engineering-led delivery. Key responsibilities

• Own, refine and prioritise the product backlog for API platform and related digital service capabilities.
• Work with engineering, architecture, UX, security, DevOps and business stakeholders to translate outcomes into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Shape API marketplace, developer portal, API reuse, onboarding journeys and governance improvements.
• Lead discovery, prioritisation and delivery planning across business value, customer impact, risk, dependencies and technical feasibility.
• Manage stakeholder engagement, communicate roadmap choices and provide clear rationale for trade-offs.
• Support agile delivery ceremonies, backlog health, sprint readiness and value realisation against agreed outcomes. Essential skills and experience
• Proven experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Technical Product Lead or similar role in enterprise digital delivery.
• Practical understanding of APIs, API gateways, developer portals, API catalogues or marketplaces, and API lifecycle management.
• Experience working with engineering and architecture teams in Agile delivery models.
• Ability to write clear user stories, define acceptance criteria and maintain a prioritised backlog.
• Strong stakeholder management across business, technology, architecture, risk and delivery functions.
• Comfortable operating in a regulated, complex and delivery-focused environment. Desirable experience
• Financial services or banking domain exposure.
• Exposure to platforms such as Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft, Azure API Management or similar API management tools.
• Understanding of OpenAPI specifications, API standards, service integration and platform governance.
• Experience improving developer experience, self-service onboarding or reusable platform services.
• Awareness of cloud-native delivery, DevOps practices and secure-by-design engineering. Draft role profile | Product Owner / Technical Product Lead | Edinburgh API platform Operating style expected
• Outcome-led, with a clear focus on business value and customer impact.
• Technically conversant, able to challenge and collaborate with architects and engineers without needing to be the solution architect.
• Structured and delivery-oriented, with strong ownership of backlog quality, roadmap clarity and dependency management.

• Confident communicator who can simplify technical topics for stakeholders and bring teams around a practical delivery path.