Senior Product Manager – Enterprise DevOps Platforms

Overview

Lead the strategy, vision, roadmap and execution of AstraZeneca's enterprise DevOps platform portfolio, supporting developer productivity, delivery and decision-making for 20,000–30,000 users. The role connects business priorities, user experience, engineering capability, governance, security and organizational standards across an integrated platform ecosystem.

What you'll do

• Define and drive 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 balancing 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, 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.
• A consistent track record of leading central initiatives, influencing across departments and delivering outcomes where challenges span multiple teams or functional areas.
• Ability to operate independently, craft direction and combine critical thinking with pragmatic execution.
• Experience in portfolio-level product management, balancing short-term delivery priorities with long-term strategic value across multiple offerings or solutions.
• Demonstrated capability to drive adoption across large user populations.
• 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.
• Experience driving adoption in environments with 10,000+ users.

Details

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