Senior Technical Product Manager

Senior Technical Product Manager

Companies House

Salary

?53,540 - ?57,250

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Job grade

Senior Executive Officer

Band E(IT)

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time

Number of jobs available

1

Location

Cardiff, Wales, CF14 3UZ

About the job

Job summary

We're looking for a Senior Technical Product Manager to lead a team of Technical Product Managers. We are looking for someone with strong track record of leadership, communication, organisational skills, with a technical background in engineering or computer science or equivalent experience working in software development, engineering, testing or another technical field.

Please note:

* Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign

* Security Clearance is an essential requirement for this campaign. You'll need to have been in the UK for at least 3 out of the last 5 years to be eligible to apply for SC.

* The team for this role is based in our Cardiff office, where you will be expected to attend at least once per week.

Job description

Key deliverables of the Senior Technical Product Manager role:

* You'll be accountable for the strategic product vision, scope, and roadmap for our infrastructure and common components services, focusing on engineering, technical requirements, and design elements across multiple teams.

* You will promote the need for technical service maintenance and infrastructure upgrades, ensuring senior stakeholders understand and support the prioritisation of these activities.

* You'll support key senior stakeholders in strategically planning and developing our infrastructure and common components services.

* You'll work closely with our existing Senior Product Managers and Head of Profession to achieve team delivery goals.

* You'll collaborate with Senior Delivery Managers to ensure our strategic delivery plan is clearly understood and plans align with expectations.

* You'll be ahead of technical trends in the industry, proactively identifying opportunities and leading senior stakeholders on potential future technologies and serve as a bridge between engineering and non-technical stakeholders in an agile environment.

* You'll identify, evaluate, and report technical risks and dependencies to portfolio level delivery, and work with Lead and Senior developers, testers, engineers, architects, quality assurance, release, support, and operations teams to design products efficiently and effectively.

* You will collaborate with other departments to ensure alignment and integration of our digital services across the organisation. This teamwork is crucial for delivering solutions that meet user and business needs.

* You'll be managing, coaching, developing, supporting and growing a team of technical product managers and identifying training needs and opportunities to upskill the wider product management team

Responsibilities of the Senior Technical Product Manager include:

* Recruiting, leading, coaching, mentoring, and training new and existing Technical Product Managers, planning workload, and facilitating their collaboration with delivery teams.

* Support technical experts, Service Managers, Senior Responsible Owners, and Workstream Leads in strategically planning and developing our infrastructure and common components/services strategy and roadmap.

* Research and follow technical trends in the industry, lead on potential future technologies and identify good opportunities for proof of concepts.

* Coach and mentor the technical product managers to set the product vision, scope, and roadmap for our common components and services, with a focus on engineering, technical requirements, and design elements.

* Promote the need for technical service maintenance and infrastructure upgrades, ensuring senior stakeholders understand and support the prioritisation of these activities.

* Use agile methodologies to collaborate with Senior Delivery Managers, ensuring that requirements are clearly understood and portfolio level delivery plans align with expectations.

* Identify, evaluate, and report portfolio level technical risks and dependencies during delivery.

* Collaborating with Lead and Senior developers, testers, engineers, architects, quality assurance, release, support, and operations teams to design products efficiently and effectively.

Person specification

We are looking for the following experience and skills which will be assessed at sift and interview.

Experience

We are looking for applicants who have:

* Strong technical knowledge - someone with a background in engineering or computer science or equivalent experience in a technical field.

* Experience of working in software development, engineering, testing or another technical field.

* Previous experience as a product manager or senior product manager, who is experienced in delivering and maintaining technically complex products or services.

* Experience in leading, mentoring and supporting product…