{"id":2383730,"url":"https://alion.io/job/shawbrook-product-manager-core-banking-platform","title":"Product Manager - Core Banking Platform","company":{"id":4291,"name":"Shawbrook","domain":"shawbrook.co.uk","url":"https://alion.io/company/shawbrook","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":null},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":78000,"max_usd":184000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":217},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Confluence","optional":false},{"name":"Jira","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"Smart Contracts","optional":false},{"name":"Waterfall","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-12T15:38:32Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-12","last_verified_at":"2026-10-20T15:02:44Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":8,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":8},"description":"Shawbrook provides finance to a wide range of customer segments that value the premium experience, flexibility and certainly we deliver. We are a purpose-led organisation, with a focus on delivering long-term sustainable value for all our stakeholders.\nWe have a diversified offering, with our innovative lending propositions tailored to meet specific customer needs in carefully selected markets across Lending, Mortgages and Deposits. Our products range from complex structured credit facilities for growth-focused businesses to mortgages for professional landlords and property investors, as well as simple loans for consumers delivered digitally. We fuel our lending through customer deposits, which we attract by delivering a premium experience, choice and consistently great value to smart savers.\nThe business model we have created is unique and difficult to replicate, with our ‘best of both’ approach combining deep human expertise with advanced digital, tech and data capabilities. This combination not only allows us to deliver excellent customer experiences, but to do so efficiently and at scale. We are proud of our innovative and agile culture, which drives consistently high employee engagement scores and makes Shawbrook an attractive destination for the best talent. If you’re willing to roll up your sleeves, contribute new ideas and believe anything is possible, you’re our kind of person.\nWork with us because you:\nWant to be part of a bank built for the dynamics of the modern world\nRelish a challenge and enjoy a fast-paced, innovative and hardworking culture\nEnjoy finding new and better ways to solve complexity and make things happen\nWant to belong to a diverse culture that stands shoulder to shoulder with minority and underrepresented groups\nCare about society and the environment and want to be part of a business that cares too\nWant to continue to grow professionally and be the best version of yourself\n Real Estate is the proving ground for our Core Banking Platform. Over 80% of originations already run on Thought Machine Vault Core, and the platform is now where our Real Estate proposition will grow.\nThis role owns the Real Estate product agenda on that platform. You will define the initiatives that make up the Real Estate roadmap for the Vault Squad and define how our Real Estate products behave on Vault Core to the level of precision an engineer can build from: how interest accrues, how fees are charged, how payments are allocated, how drawdowns work, and what happens at every boundary and edge case in between.\nIt is a deliberately deep, hands-on product role for someone who is energised rather than daunted by day-count conventions, rounding rules and payment waterfalls.\nRoadmap & Initiative Definition\nDefine and shape the Real Estate initiatives on the Core Banking Platform roadmap, sequenced against Real Estate’s commercial priorities and the platform’s delivery capacity. \nRun discovery on new Real Estate propositions such as bridging drawdowns and development finance, establishing the underlying customer and business need, the product mechanics it implies, and whether the platform can support it. \nConvert business intent into well-formed initiatives with a clear problem statement, scope, dependencies and definition of success, so the Vault Squad has a credible, prioritised pipeline of work. \nBring a point of view. Where a business request is poorly formed, unaffordable or better solved elsewhere in the estate, say so early and propose the alternative. \nProduct Definition on Vault Core\nOwn how the Real Estate lending range behaves on Vault Core - interest accrual and capitalisation, interest payment dates and rate-change mechanics, fees, payment allocation and waterfall order, drawdown and repayment behaviour, arrears and forbearance treatment - including product configuration and the rationale behind every parameter choice. \nTranslate propositions, facility terms and legal documentation into unambiguous smart contract requirements, with user stories and Gherkin acceptance criteria covering happy path, unhappy path, boundary and invalid-input cases. \nBuild worked calculation models that supply the expected numbers behind acceptance criteria, so correctness is demonstrable rather than asserted. \nDecide whether a need is met by configuration, new platform capability, or an operational workaround, and make the trade-off explicit rather than defaulting to build. \nBuild in the controls the Bank needs from the outset: FCA and Consumer Duty outcomes, accuracy of customer-facing interest, fee and balance calculations, auditable posting behaviour and correct GL treatment. \nReview implemented behaviour against requirements alongside engineers, and own product sign-off through test and UAT. \nCross-Functional Collaboration\nWork day to day with the engineers on the Vault Squad, not just their leadership, in refinement, in design discussions and in defect triage. The quality of this working relationship is the single biggest determinant of success in the role. \nPartner with the Real Estate business and Operations to understand how products are actually sold and serviced, and bring that reality into product decisions. \nWork with the origination, servicing and payments teams so that product behaviour and the operational capability around it land together rather than separately. \nEngage Finance, Data, and Risk & Compliance early, so accounting treatment, reporting needs and control expectations shape requirements rather than arriving as late constraints. \nCommunicate calculation and behaviour decisions in plain language to non-technical stakeholders, and in exacting detail to engineers. Both audiences should recognise the same decision. \nBring Real Estate’s needs into cross-book design conversations, and flag early where a Real Estate requirement is really a shared platform capability. \nInterfaces & Boundaries\nThe Vault Platform Product Manager owns the Vault implementation across the Bank and all product lines on it. This role owns Real Estate’s product definition and roadmap within that, and escalates cross-product-line trade-offs rather than resolving them locally. \nThe Product Lead, Core Banking Platform owns cross-book demand consolidation, investment business cases and prioritisation. This role supplies the product substance those business cases rest on. \nThe Core Banking Delivery Lead and Engineering Manager own delivery sequencing and capacity. This role owns what is being built and why, and whether what was built is right. \nValue This Role Will Add\nGives Real Estate a single accountable owner of product definition on Vault Core, so the squad builds to defined intent rather than reverse-engineering it. \nTurns business ambition into a credible, prioritised Real Estate pipeline, rather than a queue of loosely defined requests. \nReduces rework and post-release defects by resolving calculation and edge-case ambiguity before build rather than during test. \nBrings new Real Estate propositions such as bridging drawdowns and development finance to market faster through proper discovery and precise definition up front. \nBuilds the connective tissue between the Real Estate business, the Vault Squad engineers, and the Finance, Data and Risk functions that depend on how these products behave. \nCreates capacity in the Vault Platform Product Manager role to focus on the platform across all product lines. \n Essential\nProduct management experience with lending products and their mechanics - interest accrual, day-count conventions, fees, payment allocation and waterfalls - with genuine ownership of how products behave rather than surface-level feature definition, and the confidence to reason about edge cases unprompted. \nStrong core product management craft: discovery, framing the problem before the solution, roadmap definition, and making and defending prioritisation trade-offs with competing stakeholders. \nExperience defining requirements for engineering teams, including acceptance criteria at a level of detail that removes ambiguity. \nExperience with a modern configurable core banking platform, and the ability to interpret how a product is configured well enough to challenge whether it matches intent. \nComfortable working with API-based, event-driven systems, and able to reason about how components integrate and where data flows between them. \nUses data to drive decisions, able to model expected outcomes, interrogate system output directly, and ground prioritisation in evidence rather than stakeholder volume. \nExcellent written and verbal communication, and the credibility to work as a peer with engineers and with senior business stakeholders. \nAgile working practices and fluency in Jira and Confluence. \nPrecision and intellectual honesty. This role should be prepared to challenge a design, escalate an unresolved decision, and say “we don’t know yet” rather than paper over a gap. \nDesirable\nDirect experience of Thought Machine Vault Core, including smart contract behaviour and posting mechanics. \nExperience of Buy-to-Let, bridging or development finance products, particularly multi-tranche or drawdown-based facilities. \nUnderstanding of the full servicing lifecycle and the system landscape around it: origination, servicing, payments, collections and data. \nUnderstanding of accounting principles and general ledger reporting, and how lending product design affects both. \nPython literacy sufficient to read smart contract code. Writing it is not required. \n Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:\nMarket leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity, Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment\nFree access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health app\nFree access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause\nEAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns, mental wellbeing and more general queries around family, work, housing, and health\nCycle to work scheme\nDiscounts on gym membership\nContributory pension scheme & death in service\nYour Lifestyle - It’s important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. 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