Technical Product Manager - IT
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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
Description
Responsibilities
Qualifications
This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment possesses a deep understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and can translate complex technical challenges into clear product requirements and actionable plans within a data-intensive ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Product Strategy & Vision:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into a clear technical product vision and strategy particularly for data-driven initiatives.
- Define product scope objectives and key results (OKRs) for technical initiatives focusing on data flow integration and processing.
- Technical Design & Architecture Collaboration:
- Work closely with engineering leadership and architects on technical design and architectural decisions ensuring solutions are robust scalable and align with overall platform strategy on GCP.
- Champion data architecture principles ensuring solutions support robust data pipelines data modeling data quality and integration patterns.
- Contribute to discussions on technology choices system integration patterns and data modeling within a cloud-native context.
- Product Development & Execution:
- Own and manage the technical product backlog prioritizing features capabilities and user stories based on business value technical feasibility and operational impact with an eye towards data integrity and flow.
- Translate complex technical requirements into detailed actionable specifications for engineering teams including data transformation and validation rules.
- Act as the primary product owner within agile development cycles (e.g. sprint planning stand-ups reviews retrospectives).
- Facilitate effective communication and collaboration between engineering QA and other cross-functional teams.
- Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) Management:
- Define document and track critical Non-Functional Requirements including performance scalability reliability security observability and maintainability with a strong emphasis on data quality and integrity.
- Work with engineering to ensure solutions meet established NFRs throughout the development process especially within a cloud environment.
- Deployment & Release Management:
- Oversee the deployment and release processes for technical products on GCP ensuring operational readiness and smooth transitions to production environments.
- Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams on automation monitoring and infrastructure-as-code requirements specific to cloud deployments.
- Operational Support & Improvement:
- Act as a key liaison for post-deployment support contributing to incident resolution root cause analysis and problem management for technical issues particularly those related to data processing or cloud infrastructure.
- Gather feedback from operational teams and internal stakeholders to identify pain points and inform continuous product improvements.
- Drive efforts for technical debt reduction and system optimization based on operational insights from cloud monitoring.
- Stakeholder Communication:
- Communicate technical product updates roadmaps and trade-offs effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences explaining complex data flows and cloud architecture in an accessible manner.
- Manage expectations and foster strong relationships with all stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- 15 years of experience in software development engineering or a highly technical role with at least 4 years in a Technical Product Management capacity.
- Demonstrated understanding of the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) from design and development to deployment and operations.
- Strong technical acumen with the ability to understand complex system architectures APIs data flows and integration patterns.
- Experience working in Agile development environments (Scrum Kanban).
- Proven ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and user stories.
- Excellent communication interpersonal and presentation skills with the ability to influence and persuade diverse audiences.
- Problem-solving mindset with a strong attention to detail.
Preferred
- Masters degree in a relevant technical field.
- Extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) servicesfor compute storage messaging and data solutions (e.g. Cloud Run Pub/Sub Cloud Storage and various data processing services).
- Strong understanding and experience withdata-centric architectures including data ingestion transformation storage and consumption patterns with an emphasis on data quality and integrity.
- Familiarity with distributed systems microservices architectures and event-driven patterns in a cloud environment.
- Experience withbuilding and managing data pipelines data integration or enterprise system integration projects.
- Knowledge of monitoring logging and alerting best practices for production systems on GCP.
Required Experience:
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Key Skills
- Time Management
- Data Analytics
- Analytical
- Agile
- Requirement Gathering
- Strategic thinking
- Visio
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Market Research
- UML
- Cross Functional Teams
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