Senior Technical Product Manager
Pets Best Insurance Services, LLC · Chicago, IL · 1 mo ago
HybridMarketingFull-time
Main Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end technical solution for initiatives within the value stream, spanning multiple systems, platforms, and teams.
- Translate business outcomes and product needs into holistic technical solution designs, including architecture patterns, integrations, data flows, and system interactions.
- Partner with Architects to align solutions with enterprise standards, modernization strategies, and target-state architecture.
- Evaluate solution options and clearly articulate technical tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations.
- Collaborate daily with developers and engineering leads to clarify solution intent, unblock delivery, and adjust designs as implementation details emerge.
- Ensure technical requirements are well understood and reflected in epics, features, and user stories with appropriate technical depth.
- Support sprint ceremonies by providing solution context, dependency awareness, and clarification of complex technical scenarios.
- Define and prioritize technical enablers required to deliver solutions (e.g., APIs, integrations, data models, platform capabilities, architectural runway).
- Ensure non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, reliability, security, observability) are explicitly defined and planned.
- Ensure solutions account for upstream and downstream system impacts, including data sourcing, transformations, lineage, and reporting needs.
- Partner with data, platform, and integration teams to ensure solutions are consistent, reusable, and well-documented.
- Validate that solution designs support analytics, operational reporting, and future extensibility.
- Partner with QA to ensure test strategies reflect solution complexity, edge cases, and integration points.
- Collaborate with InfoSec, Compliance, and SRE/DevOps to ensure solutions meet security, regulatory, operational, and audit requirements.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Technical Product Ownership, Solution Architecture, Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, or similar technical roles.
- Strong understanding of modern application architectures (microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, cloud-native patterns).
- Proven ability to define and document end-to-end technical solutions across multiple systems.
- Experience working closely with Product Owners, Architects, and Engineering teams in agile delivery environments.
- Able to write clear, detailed technical requirements including data definitions, interface specifications, and logical flows.
- Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience working in regulated or compliance-driven environments (e.g., insurance, healthcare, financial services).
Preferred Experience
- With Azure, AWS, or comparable cloud ecosystems.
- Understanding of CI/CD, observability, service-level objectives, and platform reliability.
- Tools: Azure DevOps/Jira, Swagger/OpenAPI, Postman, Confluence, analytics platforms.