What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT, or Engineering
- 9+ years of experience in IT including:
- 4+ years of experience in implementing API Management and Enterprise Messaging Technologies
- 4+ years of experience with Web technologies and APIs, including REST, SOAP, JSON, OAS, RAML
- Deep understanding of messaging protocols such as MQTT, AMQP, XMPP, and SMTP
- Experience with industry leading APIM products such as MuleSoft, Apigee, IBM APIC or Kong and Messaging solutions such as TIBCO EMS, Solace, Confluent, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, AWS SNS/SQS etc.
- Solid grasp of security considerations specific to messaging platforms, including data protection, encryption, communication with executive leadership
- Experience leading strategic partners and vendors
What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):
- Master’s Degree
- Airline industry experience
Key Responsibilities:
The Sr Product Manager will be an experienced leader with technical expertise and business sense to drive the adoption and road mapping of Enterprise Integration technologies and processes across the Organization. Trusted advisor to Digital Technology leadership with solid background in integration solutions, enterprise messaging and microservice based architectures. Proven track record of delivering integration solutions to support highly resilient real-time business applications. Passionate about delivering Enterprise solutions to drive organizational KPIs - increase revenue, reduce costs, mitigate risks and improve efficiency. Strong leadership experience managing people, process and technology at enterprise scale.
- Innovation: As the product owner for Integration platforms, provide architecture, engineering and development expertise, tooling, capabilities, and mentorship for enabling reliable and secure API and Event-driven development.
- Product development and delivery: Define and own product backlog based on the feature improvements from the product roadmap and user community feedback and lead the execution. Develop and own the product roadmap of the integration platforms, in alignment with organizational goals and objectives. Define and prioritize feature improvements for enterprise capabilities as well as supporting specific portfolio/business unit needs.
- Legacy API & Messaging migration roadmap: develop a strategy for existing APIM and Messaging solution migrations and define 2-3yrs implementation plans.
- Strategy and Standards: Collaborate with Enterprise architects, Platform engineering, Infrastructure and Security teams in defining comprehensive enterprise API management and enterprise messaging vision, strategy, and execution plans.
- Governance: Define operating model through center of enablement for governing and leading APIs and Events - internal and external - across the enterprise. Define RACI for various personas in enterprise architecture, middleware, platform engineering, DevSecOps and cyber security teams Measure performance against established critical metrics and objectives to report and to drive compliance.
- Quality Assurance: Engage QA teams to define and implement automated test plans. Develop Event and API specification validation methodology, define the linting process for API Product deployments.
- SRE/Support organization: Set up a product support organization to lead product deployments and provide post deployment support. Find opportunities for automation of deployments and configurations across multiple environments.