Sr. Technical Product Owner - IAM Emerging Technology in London

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Senior Technical Product Owner, IAM Emerging Tech to join our ever-evolving Identity and Access Management (IAM) Emerging Technology team and help shape the future of global commerce. In this role, you’ll drive the vision and delivery of next-generation identity capabilities that protect our global enterprise while enabling seamless experiences for customers, developers, and employees. By translating emerging threats, evolving regulations, and innovative technologies into measurable business outcomes, you’ll help strengthen security, reduce risk, and accelerate growth across Global Payments. This is an opportunity to influence enterprise-wide strategy, lead transformational initiatives at scale, and play a key role in advancing our mission of delivering trusted, secure, and innovative payment experiences around the world.

Location: Pimlico, London, United Kingdom

What you'll own:

• Define and execute the long-term IAM product strategy, delivering a multi-year roadmap that reduces security risk, improves operational efficiency, and enables scalable digital growth across the enterprise.
• Drive adoption of AI-powered identity capabilities, creating measurable improvements in governance, automation, and decision-making while accelerating the maturity of the identity program.
• Lead cross-functional delivery of strategic identity initiatives, aligning Security, Engineering, Compliance, Data, and Business teams to achieve business outcomes, strengthen resilience, and maximize return on investment.
• Establish data-driven visibility into identity risk, delivering actionable insights and transparent performance measures that enable informed decisions and continuous improvement across the organization.
• Champion innovative and friction-right identity experiences, balancing security, compliance and usability to improve stakeholder adoption, strengthen trust, and support business objectives globally.

What you'll bring:

• Proven experience leading complex Identity and Access Management and security product initiatives, with a track record of delivering measurable outcomes across multiple stakeholders and business functions.
• Deep expertise across Identity and Access Management domains, including authentication, authorization, identity governance and administration, privileged access management, directory services, machine identity, and modern identity protocols.
• Hands-on experience implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions within security or identity environments, including governance, risk management, automation, and operational performance measurement.
• Strong product leadership capabilities, with experience building business cases, defining objectives and key results, prioritizing roadmaps, and driving alignment from strategy through execution.
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, executive-ready recommendations that drive action and results.

It’s a bonus if you have:

• Experience within payments, financial technology, or highly regulated industries, including knowledge of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and global privacy frameworks.
• Success implementing passwordless authentication, policy-as-code authorization models, or advanced identity threat detection and response capabilities at scale.
• Relevant industry certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), cloud security certifications, or Identity and Access Management platform certifications.

Our perks - what we’ll bring for you:

• A competitive salary and benefits package that recognizes your contribution.
• Opportunities to grow your skills and build your career within a global business.
• Access to learning, development and on-the-job experiences that expand your expertise.
• A supportive, inclusive team environment where your ideas and input matter.
• Time to give back through community and charity initiatives.
• A global employee assistance programme to support your wellbeing.
• Recognition through a global platform that celebrates your achievements.

Diversity and EEO Statements:

Global Payments is an organization that stands against racism, intolerance and injustice in all its forms—one that respects, honors and celebrates the diversity of our team members and the differences among us. Our commitment to fostering a company culture that values and respects inclusion and diversity is steadfast. Standing together as one company we will continue to work to drive positive change for the communities in which we live and work and stamp out injustice.

Global Payments is an equal opportunity employer. Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.