Intellect Design Arena Ltd
Principal Consultant
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About Us
Intellect Design Arena Ltd is a global leader in enterprise-grade financial technology, delivering composable and intelligent solutions to forward-looking financial institutions across 61 countries. With three decades of domain expertise, our product suite spans Wholesale Banking, Consumer Banking, Central Banking, Wealth, Capital Markets, Treasury, Insurance, and Digital Technology for Commerce. Applying First Principles Thinking and Design Thinking, we have broken down the financial services landscape into a finite set of Events, Microservices, and APIs, enabling faster, modular transformation with measurable outcomes.
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About the Role
Are you a veteran of the UK Building Societies or Credit Unions world who knows exactly what happens behind the scenes of a mortgage or loan application? Have you mapped, built, or implemented a Loan Origination System (LOS) from the ground up and know every workflow, data field, and API integration by heart?
We are looking for a highly specialised Product Operations & Workflow Expert for an initial 3-month contract.
What You’ll Do
- Drive Product Engineering: Work hand-in-hand with our core product engineers to actively develop, refine, and shape the functionality, interfaces, and design of our new AI-first lending suite.
- Deconstruct the LOS Workflow: Map out the exact end-to-end mortgage and loan origination journey specific to UK Building Societies and Credit Unions from initial broker DIP (Decision in Principle) right through to completion.
- Granular Field & Interface Mapping: Drill down into the operational weeds. You will define the exact data fields, regulatory data points (FCA Consumer Duty, MCOB rules), and standard interface parameters required at each stage of the underwriting lifecycle.
- Interface & Integration Logic: Outline how modern LOS engines need to communicate with legacy core banking platforms, credit bureaus, valuation services, and intermediary/broker portals.
- Productizing AI Agents: Guide our Core Banking and Purple Fabric engineering teams on how to embed AI Digital Underwriting Agents into daily operations without breaking standard mutual sector governance or risk frameworks.
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Who You Are
This is not a generic project management or IT role. We need someone who has actively "wielded the tools" or owned the product operations in this specific niche.
- Sector Deep-Dive: You have a deep, practical understanding of how UK Building Societies and Credit Unions uniquely operate their lending books (e.g., handling complex or non-standard manual underwriting compared to rigid tier-1 algorithmic banks).
- LOS Subject Matter Expert: You have either:
- Implemented/Configured an LOS framework into a UK building society as an Operations/Business Lead.
- Acted as a Product Manager/Product Owner developing LOS software specifically tailored to the UK mutuals market.
- Master of Detail: You can comfortably sketch out data flows, specify API dependencies, list out every critical field on an intermediary application page, and articulate where friction happens for branch staff and brokers.
- Collaboration Style: Thrives in a fast-paced environment working directly with leadership and engineering teams to transform domain expertise into scalable product software.
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Availability: Ready to start immediately on an initial 3-month contract (extendable to 6 months).
Why Join Us Now?
This is an opportunity to directly shape the future of community banking in the UK. The mutual sector is facing massive margin compression and tech legacy challenges; your expertise will directly influence an AI-first framework designed to keep high-street mutuals competitive, compliant, and thriving.
While this starts as a critical 3-month foundation-laying contract, we are establishing a permanent, high-growth footprint in the UK market. For a standout performer, this role offers a fantastic pathway to stay on and guide our extended operational and product roadmap as we scale.
How to Apply
If you meet the criteria and are ready to hit the ground running alongside me and our engineering teams, please apply directly via LinkedIn with your CV and a brief note outlining your previous LOS implementation or product development experience within the UK building societies world.
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