Cloud Digital Product Manager - Security-cleared

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Cloud Digital Product Manager to work a 10-month contract with our client 3 days per week on-site in Exeter.

You'll join a part of the organisation responsible for shared, cross-cutting capabilities such as developer tools, APIs, data pipelines and infrastructure services. Your job is to make these platforms reliable, discoverable and enabling: reducing delivery friction, improving user experience, and helping downstream service teams ship faster and more safely.

What You'll Do:

- Support the development of a business case to invest in service enhancements and engagements with third party suppliers

- Own the roadmap and backlog for one or more shared technology platforms and deliver to the agreed product vision.

- Work with engineers, architects and delivery teams to deliver incremental improvements that make platforms easier to use and maintain.

- Understand internal users - from developers to operations staff - and translate their needs into clear priorities.

- Investigate the development of measurable service outcomes (adoption, usability, performance) and use data to track progress.

- Balance short-term reliability with long-term sustainability and compliance.

- Facilitate collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders; communicate trade-offs transparently.

- Champion product-led and user informed, iterative ways of working in a complex, Legacy/brownfield environment.

What We're Looking For:

- Proven experience managing developer infrastructure products and associated cloud technologies eg AWS, Azure, shared services.

- Successfully managed commercial services and bought in services

- Ability to apply and adapt Agile and Lean practices in the context of an engineering focused team.

- Strong understanding of user-centred product development, championing the use of user centered design even when the users are other engineers.

- Skilled at prioritising by outcome - eg using impact vs. effort or cost-of-delay approaches.

- Confident working with cross-disciplinary teams and senior technical stakeholders.

- Comfortable operating in environments with Legacy systems, competing priorities and incomplete information.

- Excellent communicator, can translate complex technical issues into clear decisions and trade-offs.

You'll Thrive If You

- Care about helping others deliver value - product thinking for platforms.

- Believe in outcomes over output and in learning through iteration.

- Value sustainability over speed, preferring well-designed, reliable systems to quick fixes.

- Enjoy bringing structure and clarity to technically challenging, interdependent environments.

- Are collaborative, pragmatic and curious - a steady hand in a complex system.

Measures of Success (6-12 Months):

- Renewal of Cloud technology contracts and supporting services

- Clear, agreed roadmap for your platform area.

- Well defined and prioritised backlog supporting the roadmap and operational needs.

- Measurable improvement in adoption or usability for key internal users.

- Positive feedback from engineering and architecture stakeholders.

- Introduction of at least one lightweight product practice improving visibility, flow or learning.

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now.

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