SBA are currently supporting our Central Government client, who seeking a Chief Solutions Architect on an initial 10 month contract.

Location: Exeter - (2-3 days p/w hybrid working)

Seeking an experienced Product Manager to help shape and improve the internal platforms that our developers, scientists and service teams rely on every day.

You''ll join Platform Technology - 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 e.g. 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 - e.g. 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.

NB: It would be advantageous if applicants have active SC/recently lapsed SC

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