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ISO 20022 Product Lead

United Kingdom, London Contract work 600.00 - 650.00 GBP / Day · Job Posted June 03, 2026
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ISO 20022 Product Lead 6 Month Contract Location: Home / London (onsite 2 days a week) Rate: £600 - £650 per day (INSIDE IR35) We are looking for an SC Cleared Product Lead to support a high-profile Central Government organisation on a 6-month contract. The successful consultant will act as Product Lead for changes to an ISO messaging standard, supporting both current and future release cycles. The role will focus heavily on the 2027 release cycle, including analysing required change, prioritising future scope, engaging stakeholders, and communicating updates clearly across internal and external audiences. This role would suit someone with a strong background in product delivery, business analysis, payments, or financial messaging. Knowledge of ISO 20022 payment messages would be highly beneficial.

Job Responsibility

  • Act as Product Lead for changes to an ISO messaging standard, supporting the annual release cycle
  • Support activity relating to the 2026 release cycle, acting as a business liaison between project, delivery, and stakeholder teams
  • Facilitate rapid issue triage and resolution, coordinating across teams to unblock progress and maintain delivery momentum
  • Support certification-related queries, ensuring issues relating to participant readiness are understood and responded to promptly
  • Lead analysis and prioritisation activity for the 2027 release cycle
  • Seek and analyse stakeholder feedback on the content and scope of future releases
  • Engage with internal product teams and external stakeholders who use the service
  • Ensure change requests are clearly understood, sized, prioritised, and documented
  • Analyse proposed changes at schema level to understand wider product and service impacts
  • Support the development of industry-facing materials, including requests for change and communications explaining scope decisions
  • Ensure documentation is clear, accurate, and aligned to agreed objectives

Requirements

  • Strong background in product delivery, business analysis, or a related discipline
  • Knowledge of ISO 20022 messaging standards, ideally within payments
  • Experience analysing stakeholder feedback and using it to shape priorities and requirements
  • Ability to turn business and stakeholder input into clear requirements, business designs, and delivery-ready documentation
  • Strong stakeholder management skills across internal teams and external users or participants
  • Ability to understand technical topics and produce clear, accessible external documentation
  • Active SC clearance is required

Nice to have

Experience working in complex delivery environments with formal release cycles would be beneficial

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