Senior Product Manager – Cloud

Job description

Job responsibilities

Role Purpose

As a Senior Product Manager for the Cloud Platform, you will play a key leadership role in managing the full lifecycle of our platform services. You will shape strategic direction, ensure technical feasibility, and prioritise delivery in line with evolving organisational goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, maintain, and communicate the cloud platform vision and strategy.
• Build, manage, and iterate on a service catalogue that reflects platform capabilities and user needs.
• Engage with cross-government digital delivery teams to identify requirements and co-design solutions.
• Validate feasibility of enhancements with platform engineering teams, ensuring secure and reliable implementation.
• Oversee integration requirements and dependencies between the cloud platform and digital services.
• Ensure compliance with GDS service standards, Government Technology Code of Practice, and security frameworks (e.g., NCSC).
• Promote and apply agile and iterative product development practices within the cloud context.
• Provide guidance and coordination between platform consumers and CCoE operations and governance.
• Measure and report on service maturity, platform adoption, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Contribute to the development of standards and patterns that scale cloud usage securely and efficiently across the organisation.

This is not a definitive list.

Working Relationships

You will work closely with internal product and engineering teams, the Cloud Centre of Excellence, architecture and governance boards, and external digital delivery partners.

Additional Clauses

This role aligns with the GDaD Product and Delivery Management profession and contributes to the wider government digital transformation agenda.

Some travel within the UK may be required for engagement with partner sites.

Person Specification

Essential role criteria

• Significant experience in technical product management or digital platform management.
• In-depth knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) and their core services.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills across both technical and business domains.
• Demonstrated ability to manage roadmaps and deliver technical products within agile teams.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills across all organisational levels.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a user-centred mindset.
• Demonstrable experience managing service backlogs and prioritising platform features.
• Proficient in managing technical risk, service performance, and platform governance.
• A degree-level qualification (Level 6 or above) in a relevant subject such as Digital Product Management, Computer Science, Information Systems, or Business Technology

Desirable role criteria

• Formal certification in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect).
• Experience with service catalogue management tools or platforms.
• Background in software development or infrastructure engineering.
• Knowledge of cost optimisation and FinOps within cloud services.
• Experience working in or with UK central government or ALBs.
• Familiarity with ITSM processes and operational resilience planning.
• Understanding of cloud security principles and incident response.
• Experience supporting transition to cloud-native services and DevSecOps.
• Knowledge of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) tooling.
• Participation in service assessments or public sector assurance processes.
• Familiarity with the Atlassian toolset with a special emphasis on Jira and Confluence.

Selection Process

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your behaviours, experience and technical skills.

Stage 1: Application & Sift

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the listed essential criteria, and this will be in the form of:

• an application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application)
• a 1000 word supporting statement

This should outline how your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria.

You will receive a joint score for your application form and statement. (The application form is the kind of information you would put into your C.V please be advised you will not be able to upload your CV. Please complete the application form in as much detail as possible). Please do not email us your CV.

Healthjobs UK has a word limit of 1500, but your supporting statement must be no more than xxx words. We will not consider any words over xxx words.

Longlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:

• Meets all essential criteria
• Meets some essential criteria
• Meets no essential criteria

Only those meeting all essential criteria will be taken through to shortlisting.Shortlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on:

• Significant experience in technical product management or digital platform management.

Desirable criteria may be used in the event of a large number of applications / large amount of successful candidates.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview and assessment.

Please do not exceed 1000 words. We will not consider any words over and above this number.

Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Stage 2: Interview (Success Profiles)

You will be invited to a face to face interview in London. In exceptional circumstances, we may be able to offer a remote interview.

Behaviours, experience and technical skills will be tested at interview.

You will be required to prepare a 10 minute presentation as part of the interview. This will cover technical and strategic areas of Product Management. Further details of this will be sent to you prior to the interview.

The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working at Pace

Interviews will be held week commencing 9th February 2026. Please note, these dates are subject to change.

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Location

This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs in either Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool or London.

Please note that if you are based in either Birmingham, Leeds or Liverpool, there will be travel to London required on occasion.

We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, averaged over a month) in our Core HQs.

Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Eligibility Criteria

Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).

Salary Information

If you are successful at interview, and are moving from another government department, NHS, or Local Authority, the relevant starting salary principles for level transfers or promotions will apply. Otherwise, roles are offered at the pay scale minimum for the grade, but in exceptional circumstances there may be flexibility if you are able to demonstrate you are already in receipt of an existing, higher salary. Pay increases are through the relevant annual pay award for the role and terms.

Civil Service Grade 7:

£56,185- £66,581 (National)£58,340- £68,574 (Outer London)£60,494- £70,566 (Inner London)

This role qualifies for an annual Market Pay Supplement (MPS) of up to £10,000 based on a capability assessment. MPS review date: 11 September 2026

Security Clearance Level Requirement

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Successful candidates will require Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) as a minimum with willingness and capability to work towards Security Check (SC) clearance.

You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 5 years to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. UK residency less than the outlined periods may not necessarily bar you from gaining national security vetting at this higher level and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder / Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice.

Person Specification

Application form and supporting statement

• Application form and supporting statement

Presentation

• Presentation

Behaviours

• Seeing the big picture
• Changing and improving
• Making effective decisions
• Communicating and influencing
• Working at pace

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Employer details

Employer name

UK Health Security Agency

Address

Core HQs - Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool or London

Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool or London

E14 4PU

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency