Senior Product Manager - Core Banking Platform
HybridHamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Job Summary
Own the roadmap and backlog for the Core Banking domain, prioritizing delivery with engineering teams and platform vendors. Drive evolution of capabilities across lending, cards, deposits, and payments while shaping an orchestrate-not-rip-and-replace strategy for product placement and migration. Translate business, regulatory, and accounting requirements into testable scenarios with clear acceptance criteria, acting as the product counterpart to vendors for scope definition and release sign-off. Partner with operations, finance, compliance, and risk teams to ensure platforms remain scalable and compliant. Manage the full product lifecycle for customer accounts, including configuration, interest calculation, fees, billing, and servicing workflows.
Required Qualifications
- Experience as a Product Manager, Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar role within banking or financial services
- Strong understanding of core banking processes, including customer accounts, product setup, interest and fee handling, billing, repayments, servicing and product lifecycle management
- Experience working with platforms that support consumer lending, credit cards, deposits or transactional banking products
- Working knowledge of payments and card processing, including SEPA payments, settlements, reconciliations and payment integrations
- Proven ability to write precise, testable requirements for complex financial and operational processes and to follow them through delivery and acceptance
- Experience with platform migrations, modernisation programmes, or system consolidation initiatives in a live banking environment
- Comfortable operating across business, engineering, operations, finance, risk and compliance in a regulated environment
Desired Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with Corniche (Megasol), Mambu, Temenos, Thought Machine, Finastra, TCS BaNCS, FIS or similar core banking platforms
- Experience with consumer lending, deposits, cards, BNPL or multi-product banking environments
- Experience working with vendor-operated platforms, including SLA management, acceptance testing and release governance
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