About the Role
The Technical Product Manager is responsible for managing the end-to-end product lifecycle for enterprise data management products, data platforms, and data processing solutions. This includes 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. Additionally, this position supports the Release Train Engineers in delivering value to customers.
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This role requires a customer-centric and data-driven mindset, acting as the internal representative of business users, data consumers, and platform stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle. The successful candidate will leverage market, customer, and internal data platform insights to understand needs, shape the roadmap, and improve adoption. A proactive self-starter is ideal, capable of building strong relationships with senior stakeholders and thriving in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift, and requirements are not always fully defined.
Accountabilities
- Own the product vision and roadmap for enterprise data management, data platform, and data processing products, ensuring alignment with the enterprise data strategy and translating strategic data objectives into a clear, deliverable product plan.
- Work with business, data, analytics, and technology stakeholders to develop and communicate the strategy, vision, and roadmap for products, ensuring clarity on how platform capabilities, data services, and features will be developed over time.
- Collaborate 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.
- Work 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, ensuring 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 where 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 that 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
This position is part of the Digital Technology & Innovation Division.
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