Senior Product Manager – Middleware, Platform Engineering
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Partner with customers, collaborators and technical teams to establish a clear product vision and strategy for one/multiple strategic decommissioning products required to tackle problems and meet needs across LSEG’s Engineering estate
- Define the product backlog and roadmap, and steer prioritization of user stories, features, and delivery throughput.
- Facilitate cross-functional planning, working closely with customers and partner programs to factor inbound dependencies into backlog prioritization and roadmaps, while ensuring balanced sprint plans.
- Establish strong partnerships with Asset Management teams to ensure accurate asset in sights and lifecycle data.
- Provide strategic input into cost models, enabling improved decision and measurable financial outcomes for the Group.
- Facilitate discussions with partners to collect requirements and translate them into actionable backlog items, while ensuring clarity and feasibility for engineering teams.
- Lead delivery across the Decommissioning Engineering team throughout the end-to-end delivery chain, identifying and implementing opportunities to optimize and maximize for value and efficiency.
- Act as a conduit between technical teams and customers, aligning with portfolio and partner program governance processes and fostering collaboration to achieve consensus on key decisions.
- Facilitate ceremonies such as sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives, ensuring the development process stays on track.
- Create clarity and facilitate decisions through insightful and timely reporting to programs and collaborators, using data to advise on progress or improvement opportunities.
- Work with the team in defining and meeting the right set of metrics to drive delivery productivity and output quality, including finding opportunities to optimize for timeliness, efficiency and quality in the delivery cycle.
- Proactively lead dependencies, risk and issues for delivery, documenting assumptions, assessing likelihood and impact, planning mitigations and raising issues as needed.
- Drive our collaboration and continuous improvement culture, including seeking to assess and improve processes, tools, and practices to enhance team performance and product quality.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure technology, platform engineering, or large-scale transformation roles.
- Demonstrable experience leading sophisticated, cross-functional technology projects as a Product Manager with successful outcomes using agile and lean principles.
- Proven understanding of technology infrastructure, Middleware technologies (e.g. IBM MQ, Messaging, Integration Platforms)
- Strategic and outcome-focused approach with ability to translate high-level business requirements and objectives into practical roadmaps.
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Data literacy and experience working with data, comfortable with data principles and protocol (technical expertise in data analysis or modelling is not required).
- Sophisticated knowledge of Microsoft Tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), and experience using planning and tracking tooling such as Asana or crucialntial.
Benefits
- healthcare
- retirement planning
- paid volunteering days
- wellbeing initiatives
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product managementagile principleslean principlesdata analysisdata modelinginfrastructure technologyplatform engineeringMiddleware technologiesIBM MQintegration platforms
Soft Skills
interpersonal skillswritten communicationverbal communicationstrategic thinkingoutcome-focusedcollaborationfacilitationproblem-solvingleadershipcontinuous improvement