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4 to 6 Relevant Experience

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Accountable for delivering Product architectural strategy and vision within the data team and delivering of IT Management solutions to realise business benefits.
• Understand customer needs and work closely with the Business IT functions to validate value proposition and fit to requirements of products and services being formulated.
• Develop hands-on, in-depth knowledge of competitive products and maintain technical analysis of competitive strengths and weaknesses. Maintain current understanding of relevant technologies and how these may impact in-flight innovation initiatives.
• Work closely with Domain Data Product Managers to remain aligned with broader innovation initiatives, and with Enterprise Architects for target state alignment Engage with multiple stakeholders to build the specification of new technologies driving innovative work practices with our business. Ensure detailed use cases and business requirements documented, working with the Demand and Operations Lead.
• Build on successful proof-of-concepts to develop Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and manage ‘live’ pilots which will see the integration of these technologies in our practice. Scale successful pilots into the mainstream operations of our business, following an agile methodology of refining or pivoting on initial ideas.
• Serve as primary product expert for products under own remit.
• Lead product design post pilot, ensuring consideration of scalability, global deployment, and relevant architecture principles applied, and that platform / product can be developed in an evolutionary way.
• Support the product lead in formulating the roadmap for products / platforms and funding continuum required.
• Control product costs and vendor relationships.
• Support the development of products and future releases with design and architecture guidance.
• Quantify technical development and test effort for development tasks and liaise with Senior Product Manager and Demand and Operations lead to assign right skills to product execution pod.
• Develop and maintain reference architecture and design pattern documentation for products and platforms.
• Manage stakeholders’ expectations in relation to deliverables and identify risks on innovation initiatives as they are developed.
• Assess the requirements and present architectural recommendations that are in line with the strategic vision for the enterprise and wider best practice.
• Evaluate and provide feedback on available and emerging technologies to determine the potential impacts and business value.
• Provide leadership to solution engineer community and develop relationships with suppliers to allow effective and productive evaluation of vendor offerings against business requirements.
• Perform solution options analysis and product selection, with particular focus on Total Cost of Ownership.
• Maintain good working knowledge of business processes and associated functionality.
• Management and promotion of Jaguar Land Rover IT central governance processes (Govern IT).
• Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested.
• Knowledge, Skills and Experience.

Essential:

• Hands on experience of key technologies for relevant product area (ingestion, IoT event streaming, Data Transformation ETL, Cloud DWH environmens).
• In depth technology and coding background.
• Ability to self-learn and cross-train on new technologies, innovation experience.
• In depth IT solutions architecture understanding and hands on experience.
• Product Management experience including delivery of entire technology based products from start to finish.
• Project delivery experience covering analysis, design, test, deployment and operation of new products.
• Ability to successfully interact with senior stakeholders.
• Experience in the use of agile development methodologies.
• Sound understanding of disruptive technologies and innovation.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Experience of working in a lead role in diverse teams, mentoring and coaching junior staff to maximise performance.

Desirable:

• International experience ideally working for Blue-chip organisations.