Vice President Product Manager - New Banking Architecture Delivery Platform
On-site · Palo Alto, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead product management for a Java-centric New Banking Architecture Delivery Platform. Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of framework capabilities for developers and solution architects, including Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, WebFlux vs. MVC, and GraphQL APIs. Define enforceable API and framework standards, performance/resiliency targets, and developer experience; establish REST and GraphQL governance, SLIs/SLOs, and observability with OpenTelemetry. Manage discovery, market research, and the product backlog to align with the overall roadmap and value proposition. Drive successful product launches, guide prioritization by cost of delay and risk, and produce ADRs and artifacts to unblock engineering. Requires 5+ years in product management or engineering leadership, hands-on Java development experience, and demonstrated API/schema governance and reliability practices.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in product management or a relevant domain area
- Advanced knowledge of the product development life cycle, design, and data analytics
- Proven ability to lead product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
- 5+ years in technical product management or engineering leadership; prior Java developer experience
- Hands-on experience with Java 17+, Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, WebFlux vs. MVC, Resilience4j, Spring Data JPA/R2DBC
- Kafka: partitions/consumer groups, compaction/retention, schema evolution, idempotency, lag management
- GraphQL: schema design/federation, persisted queries, query limits, N+1 mitigation (DataLoader)
- Proven delivery of API/schema governance, versioning/deprecation, and CI policy gates
- Strong SRE practices: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, OpenTelemetry, data-driven post-incident improvements
- Developer productivity: time-to-first-hello-world, framework adoption, migration cycle time
- Reliability/performance: SLO attainment, p95/p99 latency, error budget burn, Kafka consumer lag, GraphQL query cost/failure rates
- Governance: contract test coverage, schema validation pass rate, deprecations completed within SLA
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