Technical Product Manager - Azure

Job Title: Azure Product Manager

Corporate Title: Vice President

Role Description

AProduct Managerfor an Azure product typically has a dynamic and multifaceted role.

An Azure Product Manager plays a crucial role in overseeing the development and maintenance of Microsofts Azure cloud services. Here are some key responsibilities and duties typically associated with this role:

Adheres to and promotes the company values and ethical framework, ensuring that the team operates to the same code of conductLeads an environment where people management and development is a top priority.Empowers, manages, coaches and mentors direct reports and others in the organization and holds their teams accountable for strong people management practices Brings diverse teams together to collaborate on topics to achieve optimal ideas and recommendations Drives the achievement of high performance overseeing effective career management, providing equitable opportunities, driving succession planning and talent management processes to ensure continuous development of people capability & delivery of resultsActs as a role model for own team, communicating SMART business driven objectives at the beginning of the year, ensuring every team member has regular, continuous and constructive performance reviews, encouraging career development and mobility, nurturing talent and fostering diversity.Proactively manages tough people decisions to ensure people performance is aligned with organization imperatives and needs. Addresses individual performance issues, where necessary, to drive for high performance.

Shared Responsibilities

• Availability of end user products to underpin the banks delivery of core business applications
• Architectural standards implemented within the end user device products in line with all control function requirements and policies including Security (CSO), Compliance and GDPR and End User Architecture, Standards and Governance
• Procurement of underpinning contracts to support the supply chain and services from resellers and managed service providers in conjunction with Global Procurement
• Enforcement of End User Availability Management standards
• Business Engagement in conjunction with End User Customer Services

Your key responsibilities

• Strategy and roadmap of Azure platform
• Technology roadmap compliance of all Azure services
• Defining the requirements and prioritisation of book of work for the Azure
• Ensure Architectural standards implemented within the end user device products in line with all control function requirements and policies including Security (CSO), Compliance and GDPR and End User Architecture, Standards and Governance
• Ownership of risks associated with email platforms
• Working Knowledge on SDLC platforms (Jira, JAMA) and Agile methodology
• Definition and maintenance of all tiers of Azure Services
• Stakeholder, Business and Clients engagements
• ITAO for relevant products
• Vendor Governance of outsourced components and services

Your skills and experience:

• Understanding of how Azure works
• Working knowledge of SDLC and Agile
• Have done requirement gathering, stakeholder management and vendor management
• Cost and Budget management
• Product adoption and forecasting
• Strategy, Product Roadmap and Risk management