Job Description
Senior Technical Product Manager
Genomics England partners with the NHS to deliver whole genome sequencing diagnostics for patients with rare disease and cancer. Each genome represents an extraordinary volume of complex data that must be analysed by Clinical Scientists across regional hubs in England to determine whether there is a genetic basis to a patient’s condition.
As a Senior Technical Product Manager, you will own and evolve data focused, backend and platform capabilities that underpin the Healthcare Genomic Service. These products are built on modern cloud infrastructure, API enabled architectures, and shared platform services, and are relied on by multiple teams across Genomics England.
This is an exciting senior role for someone who really enjoys shaping and running live systems, making complex data accessible, and understanding how platform decisions multiply value across teams. You will work closely with engineers, scientists, clinicians, and delivery partners, operating in a highly regulated environment where quality, security, and auditability matter.
Everyday responsibilities include:
* Owning and evolving data focused technical products, including existing live services used by multiple teams.
* Defining product vision, strategy, and outcomes for your product area, aligned to organisational priorities.
* Setting and owning squad OKRs, translating them into clear roadmaps and backlogs that balance BAU, technical improvement, and new capability.
* Managing products across multiple stages of the lifecycle, from enhancement and scale through to maintenance and strategic migration.
* Working with technical leads to shape API enabled architectures that scale value, encourage adoption, and abstract complexity for consumers.
* Understanding and articulating the long-term and cross team impact of platform and architectural design decisions.
* Ensuring products operate effectively within regulated environments, including compliance, audit readiness, and responding to assurance activities.
* Using data and proxy metrics to measure internal or indirect value where direct user metrics are not available.
* Collaborating across squads and product areas to shape shared capabilities, reduce duplication, and enable consistent platform guardrails without constraining teams.
* Confidently managing multiple stakeholder groups, communicating priorities, trade-offs, risks, and progress clearly and pragmatically.
* Taking ownership of problems and risks, solving them quickly and decisively with input from the right perspectives.
Skills and experience for success:
* Proven experience product managing data focused, technical backend or platform products used by multiple teams.
* Experience owning and improving shared platform services or components as products, with clear roadmaps, user insight, and measured outcomes.
* Strong understanding of modern engineering approaches, including cloud-based platforms, internal developer tooling, SRE concepts, and API driven systems.
* Comfortable shaping strategic roadmaps for platform products in line with organisational architecture and longer-term strategy.
* Experience defining evolution and migration paths from existing BAU systems to more strategic, scalable components.
* Confident balancing team autonomy with standardisation, ensuring platform guardrails enable teams rather than slow them down.
* Experience operating in regulated environments, with a solid grasp of compliance, assurance, and audit requirements.
* Able to define and use meaningful proxy metrics to demonstrate value for internal or indirect users.
* Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, listen, and collaborate across a wide range of disciplines and seniorities.
* Has a technical background with demonstrable strong technical competence, enabling close, credible collaboration with architects and engineers.
* Comfortable taking accountability for live systems, making pragmatic decisions, and continuously improving products already in use.
This role suits a Senior Technical Product Manager who enjoys working at the intersection of complex data, platform thinking, and real-world clinical impact, and who wants to shape products that quietly but critically enable genomic medicine at national scale.
If you like building the platforms that make other teams successful, and seeing that work translate into real patient outcomes, this role is for you.
Additional Information
Salary From: £86,100
Please Note: This is a 12 Month FTC (Fixed Term Contract)
Closing Date: Sunday 15th February at 23:00 (UK time)
Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:
* Generous Leave: 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
* Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
* Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), and a Give As You Earn scheme.
* Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
* Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
* Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.
Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace
Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.
Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.
Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties. Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity.
We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process, we encourage you to discuss this with us.
Culture
We have four key behaviours that represent what we would like Genomics England to feel like and the culture we want to encourage, in order for us to achieve our mission. These behaviours help us all work well together, deliver on our outcomes, celebrate our successes and share feedback with each other. You can read about these and other aspects of our culture here Culture | Genomics England
Blended working model
Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring. We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require full time on site attendance e.g., lab teams, reception team.
Our teams and squads have, and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are: Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.
Onboarding background checks
As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.