Description
Key outcomes of the role
- Work closely with stakeholders to extract and translate high level business and customer requirements for the creation of platform roadmaps
- Actively participate, design, and optimise the microservices from initial concept through the development cycle to release ensuring functionality, quality, and schedule
- Partner with Engineering teams to deliver critical platform capabilities with speed and quality. Using data to inform decisions, design, and priorities
- Work closely with Engineering teams on a day-to-day basis, participate in daily stand ups, sprint planning & sprint retrospective meetings
- Integration planning with other Engineering teams for the launched microservices
- Work cross functionally to ensure the microservices you launch interoperate with other platforms in the business
- Prioritise requirements to develop highly leveraged microservices needed for building our centralised platform
- Owning dependencies across teams to ensure successful microservices launches
- Advocating for the platform and developing relationships across our organisations
- Partner closely with dependent teams to align on strategy, priorities, and roadmap.
- Contribute to the big-picture at a strategic level as well as focus on the details when it comes to implementation and execution
- Be the subject-matter-expert on the platform for all teams internally
- Triage bugs with engineering teams, prioritise fixes and maintenance
- Contribute to SMART OKRs with clear delivery milestones, timelines and success metrics
- Care deeply about building a scalable and resilient microservices platform
About you
- Effective product and engineering team management skills combined with capabilities to lead
- Entrepreneurial approach to product management with the creativity and the ability to think deeper into any given area of the platform
- Experience designing, testing and supporting microservices
- Ability to work with cross-functional, global teams to deliver on a common goal
- Leadership qualities to coordinate multiple teams and work cross-functionally
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- High attention to detail and visual presentation
- Strong, in-depth technical knowledge and fluency in Commerce backend platform technology and microservice structures
- Experience in building and launching various microservices
- Ability to partner with various stakeholders like engineers and developers on the project scope and overcome issues.
- Experience implementing best practices in an Agile environment
- Experience in project management, working with internal stakeholders and managing competing expectations, running projects with clear deadlines for multiple teams
- An understanding of API-related concepts, such as JSON and ReST
- Experience in product management, API development, or any related field.
- Problem-solving skills to quickly rectify any issues with the micro services/APIs
- Experience in building platforms used by large ecosystems of users in B2C
What we offer
As the developer and operator of software platforms, we provide web presence services to customers in over 180 countries. We are a leading provider of tools required to create websites, use email, and secure business online. Headquartered in London, the Group generates revenue and income from the worldwide sale of internet domain names and hosting on an annual subscription basis. CentralNic is also currently expanding its monetisation offering to acquire traffic and optimise online marketing activities.