Sr Technical Product Manager

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at: http://www.WabtecCorp.com.

It’s not just about your career… or your job title…it’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven’t been done to make yours and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

**Post Position Title :**Sr Technical Product Manager
 

Role Summary/Purpose
You will work in lock-step with application or domain leaders acting as a product manager to create a clear strategic direction that will be delivered by the product development team.  You will direct the team with a clear and descriptive set of requirements and deliver product features and functions by balancing customer need with business strategy, minimized defects, and technical debt. Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders including but not limited to: Customers, Process Owners, Enterprise Architects, Application Managers, Development teams and Technical Architects.

Essential Responsibilities
• Work with cross-functional (process, design, build, test) teams to deliver features and products
• Own the short-term product roadmap and it's integration into a larger application or strategic roadmap
• Engage continuously with customers and stakeholders to understand their business goals and motivating factors
• Demonstrate ability to influence customers and product managers through credible knowledge and experience, persuasion and influencing skills

• Applies principles of SDLC and Lean/Agile/XP/TDD/CI/CD methodologies to deliver high quality, secured, and scalable software modules, , documentation Practices, refactoring and Testing Techniques.

• Understand and follow the proscribed governance process and development methodology for product development
• Preparation and participation in release planning.
• Lead customer and stakeholder interviews to align product design with roles (personas)
• Own the product backlog; continuously groom and ensure that an agreed scope is always ready to move into development
• Lead the product development team; facilitate discussions, provide clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; owner of functional or technical product design
• Sprint Execution including backlog refinement, iteration planning, user story elaboration, develop user story elaboration, develop user story acceptance criteria, review and accept user stories and participate in team demo and retrospective.
• Translate unstructured or ambiguous requests into actionable user stories and work units through problem decomposition and planning
• Demonstrate substantial experience with the technology stack and its impact on the final product

• Coach, mentor and lead the team

• Work cross functionally with other business departments to align activities and deliverables

Qualifications/Requirements
• Masters / Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science / ECE/EEE or in STEMS Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• A minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience
• Minimum 2 years of coding experience in any object-oriented language (Java, C, C++)

• Minimum 3 years of leading the team technically 

Desired Characteristics
Technical Expertise:
• Familiarity with waterfall and iterative software implementation approaches (Agile, XP, DSDM, Lean and FDD)
•Experience in areas such as APIs, data transfer, scalability, reliability, and security
• Expert proficiency in tools supporting SDLC such as Jira, Rally, Aris, MS Project, SmartSheet, LoadRunner, etc.
•Knowledge of service-oriented architecture, product development, system engineering, and product management.
•Strong technical skills or experience in a technically complex product development environment (e.g. software applications/database).
• Previous work experience as a software developer / system engineer for embedded products

•Understanding of applications in micro service-oriented architecture and event-driven architectures (MQTT, Kafka, RabbitMQ)

• Proficient in integration testing, STLC, test automation concepts, frameworks & tools

• Experience working on Agile teams leveraging test driven development, pair programming, exposure to Jenkins, Ansible and other CI/CD enablers

Business Acumen:
• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technologies and approaches to solving problems
• Skilled in breaking down problems and estimating efforts
• Has the ability to propose, analyze impact and recommend appropriate technology choices
• Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the product development team. Balances value propositions from competing stakeholders.
• Demonstrates awareness of the competitive environment and its impact on the product
• Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to actively participate in buy vs build recommendations, drive market timing decisions and scope of MVPs

Leadership:
• Ability to take ownership of medium sized or incompletely defined tasks
• Delivers while mentoring and helping junior team members
• Ensures understanding of issues and presents clear rationale. Able to speak to mutual needs and win-win solutions. Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results. Negotiates for best approach to implementation
• Identifies misalignments with goals, objectives and work direction against the organizational strategy. Makes suggestions to course correct or escalates appropriately
• Continuously measures deliverables of self and team against commitments. Effectively balances multiple, different and/or competing objectives

Personal Attributes:
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Effective team building and problem-solving abilities
• Persists to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks.
• Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit and exhibiting role model behavior

**Post Position Title :**Sr Technical Product Manager
 

Role Summary/Purpose
You will work in lock-step with application or domain leaders acting as a product manager to create a clear strategic direction that will be delivered by the product development team.  You will direct the team with a clear and descriptive set of requirements and deliver product features and functions by balancing customer need with business strategy, minimized defects, and technical debt. Your priority is seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders including but not limited to: Customers, Process Owners, Enterprise Architects, Application Managers, Development teams and Technical Architects.

Essential Responsibilities
• Work with cross-functional (process, design, build, test) teams to deliver features and products
• Own the short-term product roadmap and it's integration into a larger application or strategic roadmap
• Engage continuously with customers and stakeholders to understand their business goals and motivating factors
• Demonstrate ability to influence customers and product managers through credible knowledge and experience, persuasion and influencing skills

• Applies principles of SDLC and Lean/Agile/XP/TDD/CI/CD methodologies to deliver high quality, secured, and scalable software modules, , documentation Practices, refactoring and Testing Techniques.

• Understand and follow the proscribed governance process and development methodology for product development
• Preparation and participation in release planning.
• Lead customer and stakeholder interviews to align product design with roles (personas)
• Own the product backlog; continuously groom and ensure that an agreed scope is always ready to move into development
• Lead the product development team; facilitate discussions, provide clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; owner of functional or technical product design
• Sprint Execution including backlog refinement, iteration planning, user story elaboration, develop user story elaboration, develop user story acceptance criteria, review and accept user stories and participate in team demo and retrospective.
• Translate unstructured or ambiguous requests into actionable user stories and work units through problem decomposition and planning
• Demonstrate substantial experience with the technology stack and its impact on the final product

• Coach, mentor and lead the team

• Work cross functionally with other business departments to align activities and deliverables

Qualifications/Requirements
• Masters / Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science / ECE/EEE or in STEMS Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• A minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience
• Minimum 2 years of coding experience in any object-oriented language (Java, C, C++)

• Minimum 3 years of leading the team technically 

Desired Characteristics
Technical Expertise:
• Familiarity with waterfall and iterative software implementation approaches (Agile, XP, DSDM, Lean and FDD)
•Experience in areas such as APIs, data transfer, scalability, reliability, and security
• Expert proficiency in tools supporting SDLC such as Jira, Rally, Aris, MS Project, SmartSheet, LoadRunner, etc.
•Knowledge of service-oriented architecture, product development, system engineering, and product management.
•Strong technical skills or experience in a technically complex product development environment (e.g. software applications/database).
• Previous work experience as a software developer / system engineer for embedded products

•Understanding of applications in micro service-oriented architecture and event-driven architectures (MQTT, Kafka, RabbitMQ)

• Proficient in integration testing, STLC, test automation concepts, frameworks & tools

• Experience working on Agile teams leveraging test driven development, pair programming, exposure to Jenkins, Ansible and other CI/CD enablers

Business Acumen:
• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technologies and approaches to solving problems
• Skilled in breaking down problems and estimating efforts
• Has the ability to propose, analyze impact and recommend appropriate technology choices
• Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the product development team. Balances value propositions from competing stakeholders.
• Demonstrates awareness of the competitive environment and its impact on the product
• Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to actively participate in buy vs build recommendations, drive market timing decisions and scope of MVPs

Leadership:
• Ability to take ownership of medium sized or incompletely defined tasks
• Delivers while mentoring and helping junior team members
• Ensures understanding of issues and presents clear rationale. Able to speak to mutual needs and win-win solutions. Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results. Negotiates for best approach to implementation
• Identifies misalignments with goals, objectives and work direction against the organizational strategy. Makes suggestions to course correct or escalates appropriately
• Continuously measures deliverables of self and team against commitments. Effectively balances multiple, different and/or competing objectives

Personal Attributes:
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Effective team building and problem-solving abilities
• Persists to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks.
• Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit and exhibiting role model behavior

Wabtec Corporation is committed to taking on the world’s toughest challenges. In order to fulfill that commitment we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity and inclusiveness. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences and styles…people like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.