Overview
Join to apply for the Lead Platform Product Manager role at DBT in partnership with Inspire People. You will lead the transformation of the DBT Platform to be robust, secure, scalable and efficient. You will own the roadmap to achieve this vision, ensuring it aligns with the department's digital transformation goals. This is a technical leadership role within the Technology portfolio at DBT, reporting to the Product and Delivery Leadership Team and collaborating with technical architects, engineering leads, cyber security and platform users. The role involves communicating with ministers and senior Civil Service leaders and guiding innovation and resilience across the platform. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford and Edinburgh. Salary between £67,170 - £87,264 (including allowances) plus Civil Service benefits including 27% pension contribution. Salary is dependent on location and technical skills as assessed at interview.
About the Role
This is a technical and strategically critical role within the Technology portfolio at DBT, overseeing a large and complex platform that supports both internal and external services. You will lead the transformation of the DBT Platform ensuring the platform is robust, secure, scalable and efficient. You will own the roadmap to achieve this vision ensuring it aligns with the department's digital transformation goals. This requires collaboration with technical architects, engineering leads, cyber security and platform users. As part of the Product and Delivery Leadership Team, you\'ll play a key role in shaping how they work across DBT, bringing your experience of technical operations and leading platform teams. You\'ll work closely with colleagues across DDaT to understand the organisation\'s future needs and help teams validate and deliver against them.
You'll also lead on communicating your team\'s work to ministers and senior Civil Service leaders, bringing clarity, insight and impact to the conversation. This is a technical leadership role requiring experience with cloud-hosted platforms. The successful candidate will be well-versed in implementing and optimising a DevOps culture and supporting teams to work in this way. You will have experience of introducing end-to-end automated testing, deployment pipelines, and introducing performance metrics (e.g., DORA), and then acting on the findings to drive efficiency and excellence. You will also demonstrate AI literacy and an understanding of emerging technologies, enabling you to guide innovation and resilience across the platform. Crucially you must have a proven track record of leading large-scale platform operations and, ideally, infrastructure products, ensuring stability, scalability and strategic alignment with organisational goals.
Responsibilities
* Lead the transformation of the DBT platform ensuring long-term resilience and scalability
* Deliver a future-state platform while maintaining stability and continuity of existing services
* Develop and own a compelling product vision and roadmap, balancing user needs, technical capabilities and business value
* Champion agile delivery and DevOps culture across multiple teams, embedding modern engineering practices
* Represent the platform at senior boards, providing clear, strategic updates and influencing decision-making
* Lead, coach and develop a team of experienced product managers, fostering a culture of high performance and continuous improvement
Essential Requirements
* Proven experience leading platform and/or infrastructure products at scale
* Strong technical literacy, including cloud-native architectures, DevOps practices, and large-scale web operations (SaaS and PaaS)
* Experience engaging with diverse stakeholders, including senior levels, and users to identify shared needs and priorities
* Experience applying agile methodology in fast-paced environments with iterative delivery
* Experience developing and selling a product strategy with business cases, costs and benefits, translating technical concepts for non-technical audiences
Benefits
* Learning and development tailored to your role
* Flexible, hybrid working environment with options like condensed hours
* A culture that values inclusion and diversity
* Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
* Annual leave starting at 25 days, rising to 30 with service
* Three paid volunteering days per year
* Employee benefits programme including cycle to work
If you are interested in finding out more about this role, please apply using the link provided or reach out directly to Keesha Paulsen.
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