Product & Service Manager (Cloud & IT Infrastructure)

Product & Service Manager (Cloud & IT Infrastructure)
Location: Near Devon (Southwest England)
Duration: 6 months initial
Rates are negotiable to experience/Excellent Rates
English speaking
UK National or Valid work permit/visa
Public sector experience highly desirable

*Urgent 6 Month contract - Role hiring now!*

This is *Southwest England* based role with an excellent immediate start within a Public Sector organisation working on *shared, cross-cutting capabilities such as developer tools, APIs, data pipelines and infrastructure services*

Description:

An exciting opportunity to join a major Public Sector organization based in the South West of England (near Devon), who are seeking an experienced Product Manager familiar with Cloud and IT Infrastructure - modernising the technology foundations, where they are looking for an experienced Product Manager to help shape and improve the internal platforms that our developers, scientists and service teams rely on every day.

You'll join a part of the organisation responsible for shared, cross-cutting capabilities such as developer tools, APIs, data pipelines and infrastructure services. Your job is to make these platforms reliable, discoverable, and enabling: reducing delivery friction, improving user experience, and helping downstream service teams ship faster and more safely.

What You'll Do:

• Support the development of a business case to invest in service enhancements and engagements with third party suppliers
• Own the roadmap and backlog for one or more shared technology platforms and deliver to the agreed product vision.
• Work with engineers, architects and delivery teams to deliver incremental improvements that make platforms easier to use and maintain.

What We're Looking For:

• Proven experience managing developer infrastructure products and associated cloud technologies eg AWS, Azure, shared services.
• Successfully managed commercial services and bought in services
• Ability to apply and adapt Agile and Lean practices in the context of an engineering focused team.
• Strong understanding of user-centred product development, championing the use of user centered design even when the "users" are other engineers.
• Skilled at prioritising by outcome - eg using impact vs. effort or cost-of-delay approaches.
• Confident working with cross-disciplinary teams and senior technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in environments with Legacy systems, competing priorities and incomplete information.
• Excellent communicator, can translate complex technical issues into clear decisions and trade-offs.
• Renewal of Cloud technology contracts and supporting services
• Clear, agreed roadmap for your platform area.
• Well defined and prioritised backlog supporting the roadmap and operational needs.
• Measurable improvement in adoption or usability for key internal users.
• Positive feedback from engineering and architecture stakeholders.
• Introduction of at least one lightweight product practice improving visibility, flow, or learning.

Please send your CV or call Javaid and Tahmina to discuss further.
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