Lead Product Manager

Overview

Lead Product Manager (Technical SME) acting as a technology think tank for strategic initiatives across the payments domain applications GlobalPayPlus and Payments To Go, driving end-to-end technical initiatives from initiation through deployment and adoption.

What you'll do

• Define technical strategy and architecture in alignment with the Technology roadmap for payments platforms and modernization initiatives.
• Own strategic technical initiatives from concept through deployment, adoption, and business outcomes.
• Lead technical solution design, migration and transformation initiatives across payments platforms and infrastructure.
• Lead technical assessments, facilitate architecture decisions, technology evaluations, AI solution integration and migration strategies.
• Review solutions and designs and emphasize performance, scalability, resiliency, security, and operational testing and readiness as a product stakeholder.
• Drive planning, execution, governance, and stakeholder alignment across product, engineering, architecture, operations, and customer teams.
• Work with the Program Management teams and define milestones, dependencies, risks, and delivery progress.
• Partner with customers and adopters to define requirements, rollout plans, and adoption strategies.
• Align business objectives, technical direction, and delivery outcomes.
• Provide strategic guidance to senior stakeholders.

What you'll need

• 15+ years of experience leading large cross-functional programs from initiation, delivery, implementation and business value feedback for product.
• Proven track record of product management accomplishments and initiatives with demonstrated success in planning and end-to-end execution of initiatives.
• Experience managing dependencies, stakeholders, and executive communications.
• Ability to balance business priorities, technical decisions, and customer adoption goals.
• Experience working with global teams, executive leadership, and customer engagements.
• Strong Payments and Banking domain experience.
• Knowledge of payment processing platforms.
• Enterprise platform modernization, cloud-native platforms, and microservices architecture.
• Ability to evaluate technology options and define long-term architecture roadmaps.
• Java, Spring Boot.
• Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Kafka, MQ, Elastic Search, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki.
• PostgreSQL, Oracle.
• Integrations over REST, MQ, Kafka.
• REST APIs and API Gateways.
• OAuth, OIDC, Central Key Management.
• CI/CD and DevOps toolchains.
• Logging, monitoring, and observability platforms.

Details

• Location: Pune.
• Reports into the org of Director-Technical Product Management.
• Hybrid working arrangements.