Senior Technical Product Manager
Senior Technical Product Manager
Companies House
Salary
?53,540 - ?57,250
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Job grade
Senior Executive Officer
Band E(IT)
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time
Number of jobs available
1
Location
Cardiff, Wales, CF14 3UZ
About the job
Job summary
We're looking for a Senior Technical Product Manager to lead a team of Technical Product Managers. We are looking for someone with strong track record of leadership, communication, organisational skills, with a technical background in engineering or computer science or equivalent experience working in software development, engineering, testing or another technical field.
Please note:
* Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign
* Security Clearance is an essential requirement for this campaign. You'll need to have been in the UK for at least 3 out of the last 5 years to be eligible to apply for SC.
* The team for this role is based in our Cardiff office, where you will be expected to attend at least once per week.
Job description
Key deliverables of the Senior Technical Product Manager role:
* You'll be accountable for the strategic product vision, scope, and roadmap for our infrastructure and common components services, focusing on engineering, technical requirements, and design elements across multiple teams.
* You will promote the need for technical service maintenance and infrastructure upgrades, ensuring senior stakeholders understand and support the prioritisation of these activities.
* You'll support key senior stakeholders in strategically planning and developing our infrastructure and common components services.
* You'll work closely with our existing Senior Product Managers and Head of Profession to achieve team delivery goals.
* You'll collaborate with Senior Delivery Managers to ensure our strategic delivery plan is clearly understood and plans align with expectations.
* You'll be ahead of technical trends in the industry, proactively identifying opportunities and leading senior stakeholders on potential future technologies and serve as a bridge between engineering and non-technical stakeholders in an agile environment.
* You'll identify, evaluate, and report technical risks and dependencies to portfolio level delivery, and work with Lead and Senior developers, testers, engineers, architects, quality assurance, release, support, and operations teams to design products efficiently and effectively.
* You will collaborate with other departments to ensure alignment and integration of our digital services across the organisation. This teamwork is crucial for delivering solutions that meet user and business needs.
* You'll be managing, coaching, developing, supporting and growing a team of technical product managers and identifying training needs and opportunities to upskill the wider product management team
Responsibilities of the Senior Technical Product Manager include:
* Recruiting, leading, coaching, mentoring, and training new and existing Technical Product Managers, planning workload, and facilitating their collaboration with delivery teams.
* Support technical experts, Service Managers, Senior Responsible Owners, and Workstream Leads in strategically planning and developing our infrastructure and common components/services strategy and roadmap.
* Research and follow technical trends in the industry, lead on potential future technologies and identify good opportunities for proof of concepts.
* Coach and mentor the technical product managers to set the product vision, scope, and roadmap for our common components and services, with a focus on engineering, technical requirements, and design elements.
* Promote the need for technical service maintenance and infrastructure upgrades, ensuring senior stakeholders understand and support the prioritisation of these activities.
* Use agile methodologies to collaborate with Senior Delivery Managers, ensuring that requirements are clearly understood and portfolio level delivery plans align with expectations.
* Identify, evaluate, and report portfolio level technical risks and dependencies during delivery.
* Collaborating with Lead and Senior developers, testers, engineers, architects, quality assurance, release, support, and operations teams to design products efficiently and effectively.
Person specification
We are looking for the following experience and skills which will be assessed at sift and interview.
Experience
We are looking for applicants who have:
* Strong technical knowledge - someone with a background in engineering or computer science or equivalent experience in a technical field.
* Experience of working in software development, engineering, testing or another technical field.
* Previous experience as a product manager or senior product manager, who is experienced in delivering and maintaining technically complex products or services.
* Experience in leading, mentoring and supporting product managers or other team members.
* Proven experience communicating complex technical concepts to senior stakeholders to secure buy-in.
* Experience in technical thought leadership, securing senior buy-in and proposing and implementing new technologies from inception to delivery.
* Experience in different development practices and experienced in discussing and recommending options.
* Experience in prioritisation, scope management and stakeholder management.
* Successfully delivered digital services to users and experience of fast-paced, complex, technical deliveries.
* Delivering products or services using agile methodologies and in coaching others in these practices.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
* Leadership
* Managing a Quality Service
* Communicating and Influencing
* Making Effective Decisions
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
* Technical product management - managing and leading a product through a technical delivery
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.
Please note, we are working with AMS for this recruitment process.
If you have any questions regarding the campaign then please contact Alan Yates-Brown ().
All applications will be collected by AMS (our recruitment partners), which will then be sent to Companies House for internal sift.
In your application form we'd like you to:
* Tell us about your employment history, including any key responsibilities and achievements.
* Write a personal statement of 1000 words where you demonstrate how you meet the skills required for this role, providing examples to evidence your level of skill.
What will the process look like?
Sift
* Once the advert has closed we will sift applications - this involves reading through them all, please bear with us as this can take some time.
* We may raise the score required if we receive a high number of applications.
* At sift candidates will be assessed against experience listed in the advert and alongside your work history the panel will score your personal statement against the following criteria:
* Strong technical knowledge - someone with a background in engineering or computer science or equivalent experience in a technical field.
* Experience of working in software development, engineering, testing or another technical field.
* Previous experience as a product manager or senior product manager, who is experienced in delivering and maintaining technically complex products or services.
* Experience in leading, mentoring and supporting product managers or other team members.
Interview
* Successful candidates from the sift stage will be invited to attend a virtual interview, which will be conducted using Microsoft Teams.
* We use a blended interview technique, allowing us to find out more about you.
* We use the Success Profile framework and at interview we will use Success Profiles assessing the Behaviours, Technical Skills and Experience listed in the advert, and Strengths.
* There will be a discussion topic as part of the interview process. This will be assessing Technical Skill: Technical product management - managing and leading a product through a technical delivery. Details of this will be sent in your interview confirmation email.
* The lead criteria to distinguish between tied candidates will be Technical Skill: Technical product management - managing and leading a product through a technical delivery.
* A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles.
* Candidates who do not score highly enough for an offer for Senior Technical Product Manager may be considered for Technical Product Manager opportunities.
Key dates (dates are indicative only and could be subject to change)
* Closing date - Sunday 25 January 2026 (at 23:55)
* Sifting - w/c 26 January 2026
* Interviews - w/c 9 February 2026