Product Lead – ISO 20022 Messaging

Location: London (Hybrid – 2 days onsite per week)

Contract: Contract 12 months

Rate: £600–£650 per day Inside

Security Clearance: Active SC Clearance Required

Overview

A major UK financial infrastructure organisation is seeking an experienced Product Lead to support the evolution of its ISO 20022 messaging capability across critical payment systems.

This is a high-profile role sitting at the intersection of product management, payments transformation, stakeholder engagement, and messaging standards. The successful candidate will lead the analysis, prioritisation, and delivery planning of future ISO 20022 message enhancements while supporting ongoing release activities.

Key Responsibilities

Current Release Support

• Act as the primary business liaison for an active messaging release programme.
• Coordinate issue triage and resolution across technical and business teams.
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement to remove delivery blockers and maintain programme momentum.
• Support participant certification and readiness activities where required.

Future Release Planning

• Gather and analyse change requests from internal and external stakeholders.
• Translate stakeholder feedback into product requirements and prioritised delivery plans.
• Assess proposed messaging changes at schema level, identifying wider impacts across products and services.
• Drive prioritisation decisions based on business value, risk, complexity, and strategic objectives.
• Support the production of industry-facing communications, consultation materials, and change documentation.

Required Experience

• Strong background in Product Management, Product Delivery, Business Analysis, or Payments Change.
• Demonstrable experience working with ISO 20022 payment messaging standards.
• Experience translating stakeholder requirements into business designs and deliverable requirements.
• Strong analytical capability with experience assessing complex change impacts.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience operating within complex, highly regulated environments.

Desirable Experience

• Experience within central banking, financial market infrastructure, RTGS, wholesale payments, or large-scale payment transformation programmes.
• Knowledge of messaging schema design and change management processes.
• Experience engaging with industry participants, regulatory stakeholders, or payment service providers.

Why Apply?

• Opportunity to influence the future evolution of critical UK payments infrastructure.
• Exposure to nationally significant financial services transformation programmes.
• Work with senior stakeholders across industry and government-backed environments.
• Long-term programme visibility with meaningful strategic impact.

Please note: Active SC Clearance is required for this position and applicants must be eligible to work in the UK.