Senior Technical Product Manager, Platform Engineering

Government Digital Service; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Government Digital Service (GDS) seeks an experienced Senior Technical Product Manager to run GOV.UK Platform Engineering as a platform product. You will gather user needs from technical users, prioritise, and articulate value to senior stakeholders while owning the platform roadmap and metrics.

You will work with the Lead Product Manager to present progress and needs at senior levels. You’ll be the sole product person in the team, collaborating with engineers, SREs, and security specialists,

Qualifications

• Experience product-managing internal or technical products: developer tooling, platforms, APIs or infrastructure services.
• Define, measure and report performance objectives for a product, ideally where no measurement existed before.

Responsibilities

• Foster a platform-as-product approach and culture.
• Define, explain and iterate an evidence-based product vision.
• Maintain a roadmap and strategy with horizons and granularities.
• Define, measure and report platform metrics for senior stakeholders.
• Present progress and needs at senior level with Lead Product Manager.
• Set measurable, outcome-oriented goals with the team.

Skills

Platform-as-product

Technical product management

Agile product management

Data-driven decisions

Stakeholder engagement

Technical fluency

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Job description

Government Digital Service (GDS) seeks an experienced Senior Technical Product Manager to run GOV.UK Platform Engineering as a platform product. You will gather user needs from technical users, prioritise, and articulate value to senior stakeholders while owning the platform roadmap and metrics.

You will work with the Lead Product Manager to present progress and needs at senior levels. You’ll be the sole product person in the team, collaborating with engineers, SREs, and security specialists,