Cloud Product Manager at Met Office, Remote/Exeter, 12 Months, £Contract Rate

The Met Office is modernising the technology foundations that power weather and climate services used across government, science and industry. We're looking for an experienced Product Manager to help shape and improve the internal platforms that our developers, scientists and service teams rely on every day.

You'll join Platform Technology - a part of the organisation responsible for shared, cross-cutting capabilities such as developer tools, APIs, data pipelines and infrastructure services.

Your job is to make these platforms reliable, discoverable and enabling: reducing delivery friction, improving user experience, and helping downstream service teams ship faster and more safely.

You'll be working at the heart of one of the UK's most data-intensive organisations - helping to modernise the digital infrastructure that supports global weather and climate operations. It's a rare chance to practice real product management in a legacy / brownfield environment that's ready for change, surrounded by engineers and scientists who care deeply about what they do.

As a Cloud Product Manager your main responsibilities will be to:

• Support the development of a business case to invest in service enhancements and engagements with third party suppliers.
• Own the roadmap and backlog for one or more shared technology platforms and deliver to the agreed product vision.
• Work with engineers, architects and delivery teams to deliver incremental improvements that make platforms easier to use and maintain.
• Understand internal users - from developers to operations staff - and translate their needs into clear priorities.
• Investigate the development of measurable service outcomes (adoption, usability, performance) and use data to track progress.
• Balance short-term reliability with long-term sustainability and compliance.
• Facilitate collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders; communicate trade-offs transparently.
• Champion product-led and user informed, iterative ways of working in a complex, legacy / brownfield environment.

Essential:

• An active SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. (Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.) 
• Proven experience managing developer infrastructure products and associated cloud technologies e.g. AWS, Azure, shared services.
• Successfully managed commercial services and bought in services.
• Ability to apply and adapt Agile and Lean practices in the context of an engineering focused team.
• Strong understanding of user-centred product development, championing the use of user centered design even when the "users " are other engineers.
• Confident working with cross-disciplinary teams and senior technical stakeholders.
• Excellent communicator, can translate complex technical issues into clear decisions and trade-offs.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, the Met Office guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.