Security Cleared (SC) Senior Technical Product Manager

GE Renewable Energy Power and Aviation; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent energy solutions provider in Cheltenham is seeking a Sr Staff Technical Product Manager. This role involves setting a clear strategic direction, managing product lifecycle, and engaging with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless delivery of complex products. The ideal candidate will possess strong software design knowledge and experience in Agile methodologies. Candidates must hold BPSS clearance and may require the right to work in the UK. Relocation assistance is not provided.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Demonstrated initiative to explore alternate technology.

Responsibilities

• Direct the team with clear and descriptive set of requirements.
• Own the release and sprint backlogs.
• Engage frequently with the development team.

Skills

Strong knowledge of software design and coding principles

Experience working in an Agile environment

Expert in Agile Methodology

Ability to analyze the impact of technology choices

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 convey 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 help the organization to gain the competitive edge.
• Interact with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirements gathering, fine‑tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
• Work with cross‑functional teams to deliver features and major, complex products.
• Possess a deep understanding of the technology stack and its impact on the final product.
• Routinely collaborate with UX, Architecture and engineering teams on multiple issues and decisions.
• Conduct customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborate on personas.
• Demonstrate expert persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager, and engineering teams.
• Own the release and sprint backlogs, short‑term roadmap for MVPs and quarterly releases.
• Own and manage the backlog; continuously order and prioritize to ensure that 1–2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
• Prioritize continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.
• Demonstrate strategic expert‑level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
• Engage frequently (50% of the time) with the development team; facilitate discussions, provide clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation, and contribute to design activities and decisions.
• Translate unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units.
• Partner with Development Leadership to ensure healthy development process.
• Mentor junior team members. Provide technical leadership to TPMs across the organization.
• Expert in Agile Methodology: Coach others.

Desired Characteristics – Technical Expertise

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

Business Acumen

• Demonstrated 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 the impact of technology choices.
• Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the scrum team, balancing value propositions for competing stakeholders.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the competitive environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of technologies in the market to help make buy vs build recommendations, scope MVPs, and drive market timing decisions.

Leadership

• Influences others; builds direct and behind‑the‑scenes support for ideas, pre‑emptively sees downstream consequences, and tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome.
• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications; continuously reflects 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 engaging with cross‑functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using best practices.
• Influences and energizes others toward a common vision and goal; maintains excitement for a process and drives new directions even when challenges arise.
• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to add significant value; identifies the cost of change versus benefits and advises accordingly; proactively learns new solutions to address seemingly unanswerable problems.

Security Clearance

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance is required and must be maintained for this role. Please note that in the event 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.

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, candidates who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be appointed if a suitable qualified, experienced and skilled candidate who does not require sponsorship is available.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No