Senior Product Manager – Enterprise DevOps Platforms

Overview

Lead the strategy, vision, roadmap, and execution of AstraZeneca's enterprise DevOps platform portfolio. Build a cohesive, secure, scalable, AI-enabled ecosystem that supports developer productivity, delivery, decision-making, and effective usage across 20,000–30,000 users.

What you'll do

• Define and drive the product strategy, vision, and roadmap across the enterprise DevOps platform portfolio.
• Align business priorities, engineering needs, platform evolution, and enterprise architecture standards to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Lead and develop Product Owners across multiple products by setting direction, clarifying accountabilities, setting objectives, coaching, handling performance, and building a high-performing, outcome-focused culture.
• Manage Jira, Confluence, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, and related DevOps services as an integrated ecosystem.
• Align roadmaps, priorities, and service improvements to support a coherent enterprise strategy.
• Run portfolio-level prioritization that balances business value, user needs, adoption, operational sustainability, security, compliance, and long-term platform health.
• Translate strategy into clear direction and support Product Owners in delivering agreed outcomes.
• Drive large-scale adoption and effective usage across 20,000–30,000 users.
• Remove barriers, improve usability and accessibility, and partner with engineering coaches, platform teams, and business collaborators to increase engagement and realized value.
• Ensure platforms are delivered as scalable, supportable, and maintainable enterprise-grade services.
• Align services with policies, governance, and the overall organizational system build.
• Promote standardization, consolidation, and simplification to reduce fragmentation.
• Embed security-by-design, DevSecOps practices, least privilege principles, and regulatory expectations across the portfolio.
• Ensure secure defaults and appropriate governance in partnership with engineering, security, architecture, and compliance.
• Engage senior leaders across business and technology to understand priorities, reconcile differing needs, and influence decisions.
• Act as a senior extension of business, product, engineering, and governance.

What you'll need

• Significant experience in a product management leadership role such as Senior Product Manager, Lead Product Manager, Product Lead, or a similar position within a technical, platform, or enterprise tooling environment.
• Strong expertise in DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD, developer workflows, and enterprise platform product management.
• Experience operating across a sophisticated collaborator environment.
• Confirmed experience in formal people management, including leading, coaching, and developing Product Owners or product professionals within a sophisticated enterprise environment.
• Proven experience leading teams across various products or services, with the ability to build clarity, alignment, and consistency in delivery and product practices.
• A consistent track record of leading central initiatives, influencing across departments, and delivering outcomes in environments where challenges span multiple teams or functional areas.
• Ability to operate independently, craft direction, and combine critical thinking with pragmatic execution.
• Critical experience in portfolio-level product management, including balancing short-term delivery priorities with long-term strategic value across multiple offerings or solutions.
• Demonstrated capability to drive adoption across large user populations.
• Experience improving effective usage through product thinking, change enablement, and engaging collaborators.
• Strong communication, leadership, and influencing skills.
• Ability to independently persuade internal and external collaborators, often where priorities conflict, and build alignment around roadmap direction, investment decisions, and product outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience with enterprise platforms and tools such as Jira, Confluence, GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitHub Copilot, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Artifactory.
• Experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS.
• Experience working in a regulated environment, including GxP.
• Experience leading AI-enabled product initiatives or defining AI strategy within enterprise platforms.

Details

• Location: Chennai, India.
• In-person working is expected, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office.
• The working arrangement balances the expectation of being in the office with individual flexibility.