Technical Product Manager
Spotware Systems · Limassol, Cyprus, Cyprus
Software Development · 51-200 employees
About the role
The Technical Product Manager will own the cBridge product backlog and align business objectives with engineering execution to ensure high-quality releases. They will lead cross-functional teams through the software development lifecycle while continuously improving engineering processes and delivery metrics.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have 5+ years of experience in technical leadership roles with a strong background in Agile methodologies and software architecture. Proven experience managing cross-functional engineering teams and defining technical requirements for distributed systems is essential.
Benefits
Full description
Ensure successful planning, execution, and delivery of the cBridge product by aligning business objectives with engineering execution. Drive product planning, technical direction, engineering processes, and cross-functional delivery to ensure predictable, high-quality releases of a scalable and competitive trading platform.Responsibilities
Product ownership and planning
- Own, prioritize, and maintain the cBridge product backlog, balancing business value, technical feasibility, risks, and dependencies.
- Collect, analyze, and clarify business and technical requirements with stakeholders.
- Define solution scope, functional expectations, and non-functional requirements for new product initiatives.
- Prepare high-level technical solution designs, identifying major components, architecture, integrations, technical constraints, and key implementation risks.
- Create and prioritize analysis tasks for Business/System Analysts, providing clear objectives, expected deliverables, and technical direction.
- Review and validate functional and technical specifications prepared by analysts before implementation.
- Prepare implementation priorities, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release scope.
- Define and maintain quarterly product and delivery plans aligned with company objectives.
Project and delivery management
- Own the end-to-end software development lifecycle across Business/System Analysis, Backend, Frontend, DevOps, and QA teams.
- Lead sprint planning, release planning, quarterly planning, backlog refinement, and delivery coordination.
- Coordinate cross-team dependencies, resource planning, and delivery schedules.
- Monitor project progress, identify risks, blockers, and dependencies, and drive timely resolution.
- Ensure releases are delivered on time, within scope, and meet agreed quality standards.
- Coordinate release readiness activities across all engineering teams.
Engineering process management
- Define, document, and continuously improve engineering processes, development workflows, and delivery practices.
- Ensure all engineering teams consistently follow established development processes, quality standards, and release procedures.
- Identify process inefficiencies and drive continuous improvement initiatives to increase delivery speed, quality, and predictability.
- Establish, monitor, and improve engineering KPIs and delivery metrics.
Performance management
- Track delivery performance of engineering teams using objective metrics and KPIs.
- Monitor individual delivery performance and identify improvement opportunities.
- Work closely with engineering managers and team leads to improve planning accuracy, execution quality, and delivery efficiency.
- Prepare regular delivery status reports, project dashboards, and executive progress updates.
Stakeholder collaboration
- Collaborate closely with engineering managers, architects, Business/System Analysts, developers, QA, DevOps, Product Managers, and business stakeholders.
- Align product priorities with engineering capacity and business objectives.
- Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, release readiness, and delivery progress to stakeholders.
- Facilitate decision-making across multiple teams and ensure alignment throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Quality and release management
- Ensure product increments satisfy both functional and non-functional requirements before release.
- Coordinate release readiness across engineering teams.
- Support prioritization and resolution of production issues, ensuring root causes are addressed and preventive improvements are implemented.
- Monitor release quality and drive continuous improvements to engineering and release processes.
AI-assisted work
- Leverage AI tools to improve requirements analysis, technical design, documentation, planning, reporting, and engineering processes.
- Validate AI-generated outputs before using them in planning, documentation, or technical decision-making.
Required Skills & Knowledge
- 5+ years of experience as a Technical Product Manager, Technical Program Manager, Product Owner, Engineering Project Manager, or a similar technical leadership role.
- Proven experience managing the complete software development lifecycle across cross-functional engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, Scrum, sprint planning, release planning, roadmap planning, and delivery management.
- Experience coordinating Business/System Analysis, Backend, Frontend, DevOps, and QA teams.
- Experience preparing high-level technical designs for distributed software systems.
- Ability to define functional and non-functional requirements, including scalability, reliability, availability, security, observability, and performance.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, APIs, distributed systems, cloud platforms, databases, and system integration principles.
- Experience creating technical work items for analysts and reviewing technical specifications before implementation.
- Experience defining and improving engineering processes, development workflows, and delivery practices.
- Experience tracking engineering performance using KPIs, delivery metrics, and project dashboards.
- Strong analytical, organizational, leadership, and risk management skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with both technical and business audiences.
- Experience in Forex/CFD, trading platforms, fintech, or financial services is highly desirable.
- English proficiency sufficient for technical documentation and cross-functional collaboration.
- Practical use of AI tools in daily work, with the ability to critically evaluate AI-generated outputs.
Conditions
- Private medical insurance.
- Relocation support (if applicable), including an entry permit, relocation bonus, flight tickets, and airport pickup.
- Support with settling into life in Cyprus, including basic guidance on everyday matters, accommodation, banking, and healthcare.
- A comfortable office environment with fresh fruits every day, treats or pizza on Wednesdays, and snack day on Fridays.
- Fair remuneration based on your experience, skills, and level of responsibility.
- Welcome Baby Bonus and Baby Box to celebrate the arrival of a child.
- Birthday voucher.
- Partial compensation for sports activities and wellness initiatives.
- Greek language classes.