Technical Product Manager

Technical Product Manager

Companies House

Details

Reference number

(phone number removed)

Salary

?42,923 - ?47,044

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Job grade

Higher Executive Officer

Band D(IT)

Contract type

Permanent

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time

Number of jobs available

2

Location

Cardiff, Wales, CF14 3UZ

About the job

Job summary

Are you looking to play a pivotal role in delivering exceptional infrastructure to support Companies House services? Come and join our Product Management team!

Companies House Product Managers are passionate about digital innovation and meeting user needs, and we're seeking someone who shares these values to join our team and enhance our digital services.

We're looking for Technical Product Managers who have proven experience in agile product delivery, leadership, communication, organisational skills, and with a technical background in engineering or computer science or equivalent experience working in software development, engineering, testing or another technical field.

Job description

Key deliverables of the Technical Product Manager role:

* You'll be responsible for delivering the product vision, scope and roadmap for our infrastructure and common components services, focusing on engineering, technical requirements, and design elements.

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

* You'll support key stakeholders in planning and developing our infrastructure and common components services keeping them informed throughout delivery.

* Your focus will be on meeting user and business needs, working with the Senior Technical Product Manager to achieve team delivery goals.

* You'll work with Delivery Managers to ensure requirements are clearly understood and release plans align with expectations.

* You'll also collaborate across the Product Management team to achieve our delivery and service goals that enable our users to meet their outcomes.

* You'll be ahead of technical trends in the industry, advising 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 during delivery, and work with 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.

Responsibilities of the Technical Product Manager include:

* Know your user and represent them at all stages in the product delivery lifecycle.

* Refine, manage and prioritise the backlog and understand key deliverables and manage scope and releases effectively.

* Work with developers, testers, engineers, architects, quality assurance, release, support and operations to effectively design products.

* Define success criteria for testing and product acceptance.

* Ensure requirements are fully understood and that implementation plans match expectations.

* Create and maintain product documentation.

* Communicate the product vision and manage stakeholders effectively and align Engineering and product teams behind common goals, serving as a bridge between engineering and non-technical stakeholders.

* Own and update the roadmap for our infrastructure and common services and for the modernisation of our services, and execute a product vision by focusing on the engineering/technical needs and design aspects of our products and services.

* Educate and advocate for technical service maintenance and infrastructure upgrades, securing stakeholder buy in for the importance of prioritising these activities - Work with our delivery managers on dependency mapping, assessing technical risks and dependencies across delivery.

* Deliver products using agile methodologies and principles.

* Support our technical experts,…