Technical Product Manager

Job Purpose: Technical Product Managers (TPM) are the bridge between the
Portfolio and Team level, working upwards with Portfolio Product Management to
understand, assess, and decompose prioritised Epics into key Features, with a
focus upon MVP (Minimum Viable Product), Program Increment (PI) and Agile
Release Train (ART) definition. They should hold a medium to longer term (‎2 to
‎6 months), view of the Product Roadmap, ensuring close alignment to external
sources (where applicable), like vendor partnerships, and emerging
technologies within the sector, industry, and market. They should ensure
medium term planning closely aligns with Business goals and objectives, driven
from a focus upon maximising value for both users and customers. Furthermore,
then working with their Technical Product Owners (TPO) to feed these features
and indicative prioritisation to engineering team backlogs. Job Outline: -
Collaborating with TPO's, peer group TPM's, and other IT stakeholder groups,
they contribute towards finalising future PI's, utilising business value,
together with assessment of available capacity and indicative level of effort
arising from the team landscape resulting in effectively sequenced and
prioritised backlogs - Collaborate with architecture, engineering, and service
management teams, to ensure the overall backlogs are balanced to ensure a
scalable, user experience optimised, stable, and performant technology
product, that continually meets business needs, ensuring NFR's (Non Functional
Requirements) and System enablers are considered and captured, and cascaded to
team backlogs - Varied levels of involvement across suite of Demos and Visual
Release Notes including the participation in Sprint demos, at team level and
assisting in the preparation of system demo's, again at team level, per
iteration and engaging in preparation and delivery of PI demo's to stakeholder
group, via Inspect & Adapt' workshops - Define methodology for the analysis
and response to target metrics and value post PI delivery, including
recommended improvements, for use duringInspect & Adapt' workshops, and with
an overall goal of driving increased use and adoption - Build peer group TPM
community, identifying and acting upon opportunities for L&D, growth and
advancement, whilst support TPO's in the establishment of their community and
identity, offering support and suggestions for their growth journey -
Contribute to the Portfolio Product Management Playbook, and its continuous
evolution, to help drive efficient practices and empowered teams - Collaborate
with architecture, engineering, and service management teams, to ensure the
overall backlogs are balanced to ensure a robust, scalable, user experience
optimised, stable and performant technology product, that continually meets
business needs. - Maintain the quality and integrity of features within their
technical and team boundaries, ensuring identification and contribution of
risks and dependencies, ensuring appropriate team backlogs reflect any impact
- Working with TPO's to identify and capture team driven innovation ideas,
consolidating across their peer group for playback up to stakeholders -
Working in partnership with applicable product `vendors', ensuring timely
feature/product upgrades, maximising the efficiency and effectiveness of the
product. Minimise bespoke customisation, and influence business process
changes to best utilise vendor supplied products.
Qualifications & Experience: Information Technology.Other : ‎8+ Years Degree or
Honours (‎12+‎3 or equivalent) : Qualifications: Degree or Honours (‎12+‎3 or
equivalent) can be optional if strong experience in the following. Degree In a
relevant domain e.g. Operations Research, Marketing, Science, Information
Systems, e-Commerce. ‎3 to ‎5 years practical experience of working as a
Technical Product Manager or Senior Business Analyst, with proven record of
driving discernible ideation, change and delivery, at pace Whilst not
essential, some experience of working within a Scaled Agile framework, across
multiple initiatives and circa ‎50+ teams Knowledge/skills: Well-versed with
the tools for the Technical Product Management aspects of software delivery
Strong communicator at peer, line, and stakeholder levels Leads by example,
and demonstrates appetite and ability to grow to a senior leadership position
Leadership Role : Yes
Salary & Benefits: Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-
free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted
flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an
excellent leave and healthcare package. That's on top of transport benefits,
life insurance and more.