Senior Product Manager

at  Department for Work and Pensions

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are recruiting a Senior Product Manager to Hybrid Cloud Services to work with a group of Product Managers and Associate Product Managers to lead on the Public Cloud Shared Services Service offer across DWP ultimately being the overarching Product Manager across a number of shared services.
You will work as part of the Platform Engineering Function in HCS managing Product Managers, to manage multiple shared services working alongside the functional lead for Platform Engineering in HCS.
You will also work with the Lead Product Manager supporting the success of the HCS User Centred Design and Product Community.
As a Senior Product Manager you will have expert knowledge of product management techniques.
You will work as part of a larger product team, and have line management responsibility of fellow Product colleagues.

As a Senior Product Manager within Hybrid Cloud Services you will:

• Be instrumental in ensuring HCS teams and external stakeholders understand the purpose and value of HCS and our shared services.
• Be responsible for understanding problems our DWP Product Development Units (PDU’s) face when deploying and hosting applications to Public Cloud.
• Understand user and business needs, in order to build out the backlog of work and a road map of features prioritised based on value delivered to the business.
• Ensure user and business needs are at the heart of product development.
• Drive consistency and quality.
• Lead and support a number of Product Development squads who have the autonomy to own and solve problems.
• Support squads in building products/designing services effectively including incident management and service support.
• Contribute to the service design of Hybrid Cloud services driving consistency across the user experience.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

IF SO APPLY FOR OUR SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER ROLE.

This Senior Product Manager role will be in our Hybrid Cloud Services (HCS) team.
Our Team provides services that balance on premise and public cloud to offer true platform independence and optimum price performance to applications teams across DWP Digital.
Our core users are DWP Engineers.
The role will be an extremely strategic, challenging and rewarding.
Hybrid Cloud Services is a really exciting place to be!