*technical product management*
*role purpose* the technical product management job is responsible for enabling the technical development and run-time operation of products and services within a product group or a set of development teams.
*main activities*:
- work with product owners and devops teams, and responsible for the delivery, on-going success & continuous improvement of a discrete set of products or business services, or shared products/platforms/environments that are used/consumed by other devops teams.
- accountable with the head of architecture
/ product lead to review requirements from a testability perspective and formulate the non-functional testing strategy.
- accountable together with security specialists or product owner to formulate the security testing strategy.
- accountable for ensuring compliance of the products and services with mandatory and regulatory requirements, control objectives in the risk and control framework and technical currency (in line with published standards and guidelines) and, with the architecture function, implementation of the business imperatives.
- accountable for ensuring that all activities performed by teams adhere to the relevant prevailing data standards and data controls.
- work with the product owner to ensure that work is de-constructed and translated into development activities across teams.
- accountable for the creation and management of epics, backlog management and prioritisation across teams and for conformance to the it operating model with regards to agile and technology practices.
- accountable for ensuring that all activities performed by teams adhere to the relevant service management standards, and high data quality exists in service management systems of record.
- work with product owner & team to ensure that the lead time to deploy changes is continuously improving and benchmarks appropriately across other functions within the devops team.
- work with product owner & team to ensure that high levels of automation are implemented and maintained across the teams.
- work with product owner & team to ensure that service levels are maintained and improved.
- ensure the cost base for the products and services is managed in line with controls applied by the head of
technology and associated chief information officer (cio) function.
- participate as part of the devops leadership team in ensuring consistent process and practice is maintained across the devops team.
- accountable for ensuring that test strategies across devops activities are in place across teams for the products they support
- ensure that the product test strategy includes test automation, test data and environments - including virtual services.
- establish a digital environment and automate processes to minimize variation and ensure predictable high quality code and data.
- keep up to date and have expertise on current tools, technologies and areas like cyber security and regulations pertaining to aspects like data privacy, consent, data residency etc.
that are applicable
- ensure service resilience, service sustainability and recovery time objectives are met for all the software solutions delivered.
requirements
*requirements*:
- good understanding of our businesses, regions and applicable laws and regulations
- formal education and degree in it, information systems or it management or similar
- excellent knowledge of digital services in financial environment
- general understanding of it software, hardware, networks and operations
- good project execution experience and analytical skills.
- good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to produce clear and concise reports and communications to internal and external stakeholders.
- excellent stakeholder management skills with a proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships and communicate on complex issues with a wide spectrum of stakeholders.
- knowledge about software development tools and integration technologies.
- experience in supporting agile and devops menthodologies.
- familiarity with security controls around evolving technologies such as cloud, mobile, social, open-banking,
- good understanding of banking and security in context of wider industry trends and direction.
- proven management skills and experience in various roles (e.g.
technology and business) leading dynamic organization
- excellent decision making and problem solving ability
- experience working in a team environment using appropriate communication and planning skills, preferably in a matrix functional environment
- strong analytical skills to understand and use metrics to draw conclusions
- solid partner/stakeholder interaction - customer oriented.
- ability to deal with conflicting situations with success - negotiation skills.
- ability to work effectively cross lines of business, vendors, providers, consultants, executive/senior management, and other functions/governance/steering committees.
- works collabora