Product Manager

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How you'll role
As the Product Manager, it will be your responsibility to execute technical, digital, and data platform strategies and roadmaps that encompass the current and future needs of the business, commercial/financial, technology and platforms ensuring the integrity, consistency and resilience of platform features and functions across geographies. You will work with a team of product owners in managing the backlog of defects, gaps and design features (as well as technical debt items) ensuring availability, reliability, performance and security to appropriate levels, enabling high-quality customer services and revenue growth across the group.
What you'll do
Strategy

Implement the service strategy for payments and platform services with overall client segment, client solutions, and country service strategic objectives, inculcating service orientation and culture within delivery functions and teams
Contribute to driving out platform strategies and technology architecture and lead technology research, evaluation and build efforts in support of the platform
Provide strategic direction to the teams by leading and guiding their output and delivery in line with the group strategic plan by participating in strategic road maps and plans
Provide strategic direction of the technical, digital, and data platform capability, identifying required platform capabilities, aligning to the strategic technology plans, standards and toolboxes defined by the relevant group engineering domain owners
Be responsible for technology and architecture
Execute responsibilities against the relevant service management model, standards, and processes
Develop and maintain up-to-date conceptual, logical and physical architectures of the platform, ensuring these are refreshed and published quarterly
Develop a platform roadmap of key features and activities required for the platform based on architecture findings, design requirements and direction of business, technology and platform products
Deliver the features on the platform backlog to the right level of quality by the relevant platform/component /system/feature team resources, in collaboration with the relevant stakeholders (Technical Lead and Design / Architecture Lead)
Monitor the delivery of platform features against the defined release plan by participating in daily stand-ups and reporting the status of the delivery against service demand
Monitor and evaluate software engineering standards of the platform to maintain required stability, resilience and performance levels ensuring that the platform is engineered to be secure, and meet service level objectives in terms of availability, reliability and performance
Manage the backlog of defects, gaps and design features (as well as technical debt items) ensuring availability, reliability, performance and security to appropriate levels, enabling high-quality customer services across the group
Develop Service Level Agreement contracts to ensure availability, reliability and performance and ensure monitoring exists across these dimensions

Monitor alerts in the event of failure, slow-down, etc., giving visibility to the platform's health and availability


Contribute to engineering excellence by focusing on Agile principles, employing DevOps and system team constructs, and growing competency and fungibility of capabilities (drawing on group engineering domains and practices)
Contribute to the overall success of client segment and client solutions service delivery and country service experience by making visible the specific capacity, availability and continuity (Always on) requirements for the platform based on usage/consumption and forecasts
Participate in deep dives, communicate specific information security requirements and drive continuous improvement to platform stability, security and performance/responsiveness, ensuring team priorities are reflective of the country and service priorities
Plan and manage the release of formal versions of a combination of features developed across the platform
Monitor progress of technical release activities by removing impediments to delivery, give input to the final go-live scope of the release, advise on go; no-go decisions by monitoring the agreed governance and technical milestones, and communicate the outcome to the relevant service owners

Data

Review the number and severity of incidents and outages, perform trend analysis and investigate root causes
Give input to appropriate information dashboards regarding the failure of service and develop plans to mitigate failures
Analyse and report on the quality-of-service delivery
Pull business metrics for consumption by the team and for publishing to stakeholders
Recommend actions and initiatives to improve the adoption of services on the platform to business stakeholders and platform management teams based on the identification of trends in the number and value of transactions, contributing insights to changing designs and strategies

Financial Management

Monitor budgets against expenditure and manage IT costs in line with organisational parameters
Set up and build business cases as part of evaluating features and/or product changes

People

Promote awareness of trends and developments in payments, digital, cloud and platform technologies and devices by focusing on educating business users
Coach the delivery teams, providing quick resolution for problems and roadblocks
Coach and mentor, a team of POs who will be responsible for ownership of specific products?
Build and scale the required skills within the product domain in order to optimise value delivered through the team to the organisation
Contribute to communication and change processes for new platform features and processes
Take responsibility for risk, regulatory, prudential and compliance
Collaborate with country, client Segment and client Solutions service owners during incident and resolution processes, advising on customer impact as a result of outages and contributing to communication action plans for the group technology and operations domain owners
Oversee that the group technology and operations risk management minimum standard is adhered to

Drive and champion a positive risk culture and attitude within the teams


Provide input to relevant risk governance forums and escalate relevant risk issues

Establish appropriate risk oversight and governance processes and structures within the area?



What you'll need

8+ years' experience, and a minimum of 3 years' experience in the same or similar role in payments
Interpersonal skills including communication, coaching, and the ability to interact with colleagues and merchants at all levels
Excellent problem-solving skills
Demonstrated success in defining and launching excellent products
Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
Be transparent about prioritisation and the roadmap process
Ability to say "no" but explain why in terms that stakeholders understand
Ability to ruthlessly prioritise while also balancing the needs of customers and stakeholders
Evidence-based decision-making communication

Additional skills

Analytical skills. You?are able to?structure and process qualitative or quantitative data and draw insightful conclusions from it.?You?exhibits?a probing mind and achieve penetrating insights
Communication.?You speak and write?clearly and articulately without being overly verbose or talkative.?You know when and how much information to communicate.?You maintain this standard in all forms of written communication
Data-driven. You have experience utilising data from across the business to?drive insights and better decision-making
Problem-solving.?You?are able to?solve problems by analysing situations and applying critical thinking in order to resolve problems. You?are able to?decide on courses of action and implement the solutions developed in order to overcome problems and constraints
Strategic thinking/ visioning.?You?are able to?see and communicate the big picture in an inspiring way.?You?determines?opportunities and threats through a comprehensive analysis of current and future trends
Teamwork.?You reach out to peers and cooperate with supervisors to establish an overall collaborative working relationship

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