About the Role
The Product Manager is responsible for managing the end-to-end product lifecycle for enterprise data management products, data platforms, and data processing solutions. This encompasses defining desirable, feasible, viable, and sustainable products, launching them, and ensuring they continuously meet business, customer, and operational needs. The role owns the strategy, vision, and roadmap for products within the value stream, ensuring alignment with the enterprise data strategy, data governance priorities, platform scalability, and data processing capabilities. The Product Manager supports the Release Train Engineers in delivering value to customers.
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This position requires a customer-centric and data-driven mindset, representing business users, data consumers, and platform stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle. Leveraging market, customer, and internal data platform insights, the successful candidate will understand needs, shape the roadmap, and improve product adoption. A proactive self-starter who builds strong relationships with senior stakeholders is essential, particularly in a fast-paced environment where priorities can shift, and requirements may not be defined.
Accountabilities
- Own the product vision and roadmap for enterprise data management, data platforms, and data processing products, ensuring alignment with the enterprise data strategy and translating strategic data objectives into a clear, deliverable product plan.
- Collaborate with business, data, analytics, and technology stakeholders to develop and communicate the strategy, vision, and roadmap for products, ensuring the team understands how platform capabilities, data services, and features will be developed over time.
- Work with Solution Architects, Data Architects, Data Engineers, and Software Engineers to define and maintain Non-Functional Requirements, ensuring the product meets quality, scalability, security, governance, and performance standards.
- Support the flow of work through the portfolio Kanban and into the product backlog.
- Collaborate with the Product Owner to reprioritize the backlog based on business, customer, data platform, and enterprise data management needs.
- Present the product vision during Program Increment (PI) Planning, including proposed features, data platform enhancements, processing capabilities, and upcoming milestones.
- Participate in daily scrums, sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Collaborate with Solution Architects and Data Architects to understand the scope of upcoming enabler work and sequence the architectural runway that enables new business functionality, data integration, and scalable processing solutions.
- Facilitate regular system demos to ensure the most critical product capabilities, platform enhancements, and data processing outcomes are shown to stakeholders for review and approval.
- Support the measurement of product success, including adoption, customer insights, data quality, platform performance, processing efficiency, and feedback, while continuously identifying future features and enhancements.
- Provide regular progress updates, manage dependencies, risks, and issues, and escalate to the Senior Product Manager and Release Train Engineer as required.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 5+ years' experience as a Technical Product Manager designing and launching high-quality technical products, preferably within enterprise data management, data platforms, data processing solutions, or related software products. Airline or aviation industry experience is strongly preferred.
- Hands-on experience in data engineering, data architecture, enterprise data platforms, or data processing solutions is strongly preferred, with the ability to engage credibly on data platform, integration, governance, and technical design decisions and align the product roadmap with the enterprise data strategy.
- Certified Product Manager (CPM), Agile Certified Product Manager (ACPM), or equivalent is desirable.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies including SAFe, Scrum, and Lean Portfolio Management is desirable.
Additional Information
The division of Digital Technology & Innovation is essential to not just maintaining but also innovating the future of global aviation, with a vision where extraordinary experiences take flight. Join us and become part of a transformative journey in a dynamic environment.
