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About the Role

RTGS is the Bank of England's Real Time Gross Settlement service, critical national infrastructure that underpins the UK financial system. This role involves shaping and evolving the platform services that enable software delivery across RTGS Technology, owning the roadmap, epics, and backlog for engineering platforms and services within the Runtime Platform & Developer Experience domain. The position is crucial for ensuring platform services remain secure, resilient, supportable, and fit for the future, while balancing operational responsibilities, platform evolution, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Own the creation, maintenance and ongoing evolution of the roadmap, epics and backlog for Runtime Platform & Developer Experience services.
Work closely with engineering teams and platform consumers to understand needs, identify opportunities for improvement and shape platform priorities through workshops, discovery activities and collaborative planning.
Ensure engineering capacity is allocated appropriately across platform evolution, lifecycle management, operational support, resilience, automation and continuous improvement activities.
Use feedback, operational insights and service data to identify bottlenecks, inform prioritisation decisions and drive continuous improvement.
Maintain a balanced roadmap that supports platform reliability, lifecycle management, resilience, automation, developer experience and continuous improvement.
Drive lifecycle management activities including patching, upgrades and obsolescence remediation whilst identifying opportunities to reduce operational effort through automation and standardisation.
Work closely with Software Engineering Team Leads, architects and platform engineers to shape future platform direction.
Challenge demand that could lead to unsustainable delivery or compromise long-term platform health.
Communicate priorities, risks, dependencies and outcomes to stakeholders.

Requirements

Experience managing roadmaps, backlogs, epics or prioritisation processes within a technology organisation.
Experience working with engineering, technology or platform teams.
Experience facilitating workshops, discovery activities or stakeholder engagement sessions.
Experience improving operational processes, engineering effectiveness or service outcomes.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Understanding of Agile delivery and product management practices.
Proven experience as a Product Manager, Technical Product Manager, Platform Product Manager or similar role within a technology environment.
Experience owning roadmaps, epics and backlogs for technical products, platforms or services.
Experience working within a software -or platform engineering environment.
Strong understanding of software delivery, CI/CD, developer tooling, platform engineering concepts and modern engineering practices.
Experience working closely with engineering teams, architects and technical stakeholders.
Experience defining and prioritising platform capabilities based on user needs, operational requirements and strategic objectives.
Experience using feedback, operational insights and adoption data to shape roadmap decisions.
Experience balancing platform evolution, lifecycle obligations, resilience, operational requirements and engineering productivity.
Experience managing or prioritising work relating to platform lifecycle management, technology obsolescence, patching, upgrades or operational resilience.
Strong planning, facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to understand technical concepts and translate them into prioritised outcomes.
Strong communication skills and ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience improving software delivery processes or engineering productivity.
Experience using techniques such as value stream mapping, process mapping, journey mapping or similar approaches to identify improvement opportunities.
Experience driving automation and operational efficiency initiatives.
Experience with cloud and on-premise platform environments.
Experience in financial services, payments or regulated environments.
Knowledge of operational resilience, observability and technology lifecycle management practices.

Skills

Stakeholder management
Communication
Agile delivery
Product management
Software delivery
CI/CD
Developer tooling
Platform engineering concepts
Modern engineering practices
Workshop facilitation
Collaborative discovery
Roadmap definition
Prioritisation
Lifecycle management
Operational resilience
Automation
Value stream mapping
Process mapping
Journey mapping
Cloud platforms
On-premise platforms
Financial services
Payments
Regulated environments
Observability

Location

Leeds
London

Work Type

Permanent
Full Time
Flexible working patterns

Experience Level

Minimum Criteria
Essential Criteria
Desirable Criteria

Salary/Compensations

Leeds: £49,360 - £55,530
London: £54,800 - £61,650

Benefits

Non-contributory, career average pension (1/80th of annual salary per year worked, with option to increase to 1/65th or decrease to 1/105th)
Discretionary performance award
8% benefits allowance (can be taken as salary or used for flexible benefits)
26 days’ annual leave (with option to buy up to 12 additional days)
Private medical insurance
Income protection

About the Company

RTGS is the Bank of England's Real Time Gross Settlement service, critical national infrastructure that underpins the UK financial system, settling hundreds of billions of pounds each day.
The Bank of England is the UK's central bank, known for world-leading thinking on policy and strategy.
Our mission is to promote the good of the people of the UK by maintaining monetary and financial stability.
We seek to keep prices stable and people's money safe.
We know our work matters to people, to families, up and down the UK.
We are driven by curiosity and the desire to do important, challenging work.
It takes a great team to run the Bank of England.
We rely on each other to play our part.
We benefit from a collaborative culture and long-established flexible ways of working, supporting our colleagues balance their work and personal lives.
We strive to be a place where people feel they belong and have equal access to opportunities, because different perspectives helps us make the best decisions for the public.
There's much to gain from working with us - from career defining work at the heart of the UK economy, being part of a fantastic team, and a rewarding compensation package.
Join us and find a bank like no other.
Together, we can make a difference.

Equal Opportunity

The Bank values diversity, equity and inclusion.
We believe we need a workforce that reflects the society we serve.
We want all colleagues to feel valued and respected, so we're working hard to build an inclusive culture which supports people from all backgrounds and communities to be at their best at work.
We celebrate all forms of diversity, including (but not limited to) age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status.
We believe that it’s by drawing on different perspectives and experiences that we’ll continue to make the best decisions for the public.
We welcome applications from individuals who work flexibly, including job shares and part time working patterns.
We've also partnered with external organisations to support us in making adjustments for candidates and employees in the recruitment process where they're needed.
From 1st October 2026, we expect all our colleagues to spend a minimum of 50% of their working time in the office per month.
Subject to that minimum requirement, individuals and managers should work together to find what works best for them and their team.
We're proud to be a member of the Disability Confident Scheme.
The Bank of England welcomes applications from all candidates, but as a UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approved sponsor, we have a responsibility to comply with the Immigration Rules and guidance.
Our ability to employ individuals who require sponsorship for immigration purposes is limited.
The Bank cannot guarantee that you and / or the role you are applying for will be eligible for sponsorship and that any application made to UKVI will be successful.
Eligibility will therefore be considered on a case by case basis.