Solution Designer - Senior

The opportunity

We are seeking a Product Owner to join a motivated agile squad within the Debit Issuing Tribe.

The tribe is diverse, multi-language, multi-technology, and multi-site, delivering highly available services for cashless payment validation and authorization for banks across Europe.

Day-to-day responsibilities

• Work within one of our scrum squads that are fully responsible for their applications from code to production (DevOps).
• Focus on the payment infrastructure, including issuing transaction handling.
• Ensure the performance of services under high constraints (speed, high availability, robustness, quality, etc.).
• Collaborate closely with squad members and align with stakeholders (business engineers, project leads, other product owners) to deliver robust, highly available, and performant software on time and within budget.
• Plan the squad’s activities, manage deadlines, project timelines, and release schedules.
• Take ownership and end-to-end responsibility for the squad’s applications.
• Support stakeholders by troubleshooting and resolving production issues, driving continuous system improvement.
• Participate in client workshops as needed and ensure alignment with payments domain requirements.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including Product Increment (PI), sprint planning, backlog refinement.
• Collaborate with architects, operations, testing to ensure good quality and service continuity.
• Ensure that all product and project documentation is maintained, up to date, and communicated effectively, including release notes and customer manuals.
• Ability to understand technical discussions involving legacy applications.
• Capable of translating business requirements into clear technical requirements and working closely with developers throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Familiarity with C/COBOL is an advantage.
• Ability to interpret complex technical and business documentation and identify changes requiring implementation.

 

Who are we looking for

We look for big thinkers. People who can drive positive change, step up and show what’s next – people with passion, can-do attitude and a hunger to learn and grow.

In practice this means:

 

• Higher degree in IT, Management, or related fields.
• Proven track record (5+ years) as a Product Owner in an Agile environment (or equivalent).
• Experience and knowledge in payments domain is advantageous; willingness to learn and grow in payments.
• Eagerness to take application ownership and embrace responsibilities.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and end-to-end product ownership.
• Team player with strong communication and influencing skills.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Ability to work efficiently in an agile squad and manage delivery load in a high paced environment.
• Experience working in a complex, multi-site, multi-technology, and multi-language environment is a plus.
• Ability to understand technical discussions involving legacy applications.
• Capable of translating business requirements into clear technical requirements and working closely with developers throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Familiarity with C/COBOL is an advantage.
• Ability to interpret complex technical and business documentation and identify changes requiring implementation.

• Strong collaboration with stakeholders to understand customer needs and translate into backlog items.
• Ability to plan and prioritize work, manage multiple deadlines, and deliver releases on time.
• Willingness to engage in ongoing learning and professional development.
• Client-facing skills as needed for workshops and requirement gathering.

Perks & Benefits

Perks & Benefits

 

In addition to joining a global leader in payments, you can also expect an excellent range of benefits. These include a rewarding salary, leave days, an attractive pension scheme, global learning days and many more. We also have location specific benefits, varying from private med