Technical Product Manager

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Job Title: Technical Product Manager

Job Description

This senior Technical Product Manager role sits within a Cybersecurity Sciences & Analytics function that brings together expertise across cybersecurity, data science, AI, software and cloud engineering, governance, and programme management. You will take ownership of strategic cyber analytics and technology products that enhance prevention, detection, response, and resilience across the cyber life cycle. Operating in a fast-paced, Agile environment, you will coordinate work across multiple delivery teams and external suppliers, ensuring cross-team initiatives meet user needs, comply with cyber and data governance standards, and are delivered in line with programme management frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of operating model development, continuous improvement, product development, and programme delivery workstreams, adopting the Agile delivery life cycle.
• Operate at the interface of people, process, and transformation, translating business and technical requirements into clear product outcomes.
• Work with delivery teams to ensure product design, delivery, and adoption plans meet user needs and align with business constraints and priorities.
• Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring it is aligned with client needs and business objectives and is clearly communicated to development teams.
• Define, prioritise, and refine backlog items and user stories, providing clear acceptance criteria and guidance to software delivery teams.
• Identify, manage, and communicate dependencies and risks to product delivery across multiple teams and external suppliers.
• Actively manage blockers, risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, escalating as required and making recommendations to influence decision-making.
• Drive successful implementation and productionisation of technology products, ensuring they are robust, scalable, and aligned with cyber risk appetite and regulatory requirements.
• Engage with clients and stakeholders to understand their roles, needs, and pressures, and identify opportunities for innovative product solutions.
• Work closely with clients to gather requirements and translate them into actionable user stories and product features.
• Act as the voice of the client within Agile Scrum teams, ensuring products meet client expectations and deliver measurable value.
• Support the evolution of cyber analytics platforms, products, and engineering practices through a controlled maturity roadmap to improve resilience, efficiency, and sustainability.
• Contribute to the enhancement of cyber detection and response capabilities and the provision of trusted cyber risk, control, and regulatory insights for executive decision-making.
• Promote continuous improvement by identifying pain points in current ways of working and implementing optimised processes and practices.

Essential Skills

• Proven experience as a Product Owner or in a similar technical product management role within an Agile environment.
• Demonstrated experience with operating model development and implementation, particularly in complex technology or cyber functions.
• Track record of identifying process pain points and implementing optimised ways of working and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong experience in owning and managing product backlogs, aligning them with client needs and business objectives.
• Advanced understanding of methods, principles, and processes required to set priorities for development teams and successfully productionise technology products.
• Experience engaging with clients and managing stakeholder relationships in a technology or cyber context.
• Ability to understand clients' roles, needs, and pressures and translate them into innovative product solutions and actionable user stories.
• Experience working closely with clients and acting as their voice within Agile Scrum teams to ensure products meet expectations.
• Knowledge of technical software development and engineering technologies and principles, with hands-on experience working in software delivery teams.
• Understanding of the cybersecurity threat and risk management landscape, including international regulation, policy, frameworks, and organisational cyber controls.
• Exposure to Big Data technologies at enterprise scale.
• Proficiency working in Agile environments with tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and influence decision-making.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience with Azure cloud services in data and analytics or cybersecurity contexts.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks or similar Big Data and analytics platforms.
• Background in cyber security, including familiarity with cyber threats, risk management, and control effectiveness.
• Experience in cloud-based data platforms and enterprise-scale data solutions.
• Ability to work collaboratively in fast-paced, cross-functional teams and to pick up new tools and techniques quickly.
• Keen interest in cybersecurity, data, and emerging technologies, with an eagerness to learn and develop new skills on the job.

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Sheffield, UK

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