Security Cleared (SC) Senior Technical Product Manager

-; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company in Cheltenham is seeking a Senior Staff Technical Product Manager. This role involves creating strategic direction, managing the development team, and ensuring alignment with stakeholders. Successful candidates will have substantial experience in Agile methodologies, software design principles, and strong negotiation skills. The position offers competitive rewards and supports flexible work arrangements, aiming to enhance work-life balance.

Benefits

Non-contributory Pension

Life Assurance

Private medical cover

Flexible holidays

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Familiarity with versatile implementation options.
• Understands the competitive environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop clear strategic directions for product management.
• Manage and prioritize release and sprint backlogs.
• Conduct customer and stakeholder interviews.
• Facilitate discussions and provide clarification.

Skills

Software design principles

Agile methodology

Technical knowledge of caching, APIs, data transfer

Negotiation skills

Job description

Job Description Summary

Sr Staff Technical Product Manager- D&S- Avionics & Power Next Generation MES/QMS

Responsible for operating in lock‑step with product management teams to create a clear strategic direction for development needs and conveys that vision to the build and/or operations team. You will direct the team with a clear and descriptive set of requirements and partner with the team to determine what can be delivered through balancing the need for new features, defects, and technical debt. Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders: Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Product Owners and Developers.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Demonstrate superior product and industry knowledge and helps organization to gain the competitive edge.
• Interacts with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements‑gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
• Works with cross‑functional teams to deliver features and major, complex products.
• Possesses a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.
• Routinely collaborates with UX, Architecture and engineering teams on multiple issues and decisions.
• Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.
• Demonstrates expert persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.
• Owns the release and sprint backlogs short‑term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
• Owns and manages the backlog; continuously orders and prioritises to ensure that 1–2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
• Prioritises continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.
• Demonstrates strategic expert‑level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
• Engages frequently (50% of the time) with the development team; facilitates discussions, provides clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions.
• Translates unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units.
• Partners with Development Leadership to ensure healthy development process.
• Mentors junior team members. Provide technical leadership to TPMs across organisation.
• Expert in Agile Methodology: Coaches others.

Desired Characteristics Technical Expertise

• Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Familiarity with versatile implementation options
• Demonstrates knowledge on technical topics, such as caching, APIs, data transfer, scalability, and security

Business Acumen

• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
• Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices
• Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the scrum team. Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment
• Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to help make buy vs build recommendations, scope MVPs, and to drive market timing decisions

Leadership

• Influences through others; builds direct and “behind the scenes” support for ideas. Pre‑emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.
• Able to verbalise what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision‑making.
• Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.

Personal Attributes

• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross‑functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
• Influences and energises other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.
• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.

6.9 Digital Technology & Cybersecurity requirements

6.10 All Digital Technology and Cybersecurity workers in GEAS UK Highly Regulated Businesses shall be subject to UK National Security Vetting and must hold and maintain clearance at the SC Level (or higher) prior to starting employment/assignment and for continued employment/assignment. This requirement shall apply regardless of whether: employed by; seconded, allocated or assigned to; or otherwise undertaking work in or for GEAS UK Highly Regulated Businesses; and shall apply irrespective of site/location, including those working remotely.

6.12 All workers requesting highly privileged logical and/or unescorted physical access to IT/OT Applications/Systems/Services or Infrastructure within GEAS UK Highly Regulated Environments shall be subject to UK National Security Vetting and must hold clearance at the SC Level (or higher) and shall meet applicable access eligibility and business justification requirements before such access is granted. Access shall cease when access clearance, eligibility or justification requirements cease to be met. Highly privileged logical access to IT/OT Applications/Systems/Services within GEAS UK Highly Regulated Environments shall be limited to workers who are located onshore in the UK. This requirement shall apply regardless of whether: access is by GE Aerospace workers or is by workers from another GE, GE affiliate or 3rd Party entity; and shall apply irrespective of site/location, including those working remotely.

Total Rewards

• Non‑contributory Pension
• Life Assurance
• Group income protection
• Private medical cover
• Holiday Hourly equivalent of 26 days, with flexible option to buy or sell

GE supports and encourages flexible working arrangements, where possible, and recognises the benefits to employees of having a positive work‑life balance.

Security Clearance

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance is required and must be maintained for this role. Please note that in the event that BPSS clearance cannot be obtained, you may not be eligible for the role and/or any offer of employment may be withdrawn on grounds of national security. Please see the link below for further details regarding the requirements for BPSS clearance: BPSS

Right to Work

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, under the applicable UK immigration rules as may be in place from time to time, it may be that candidates who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled candidate who does not require sponsorship is available to take up the post. Further, under immigration rules, sponsorship is not available for all posts. For further information please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No