VP, Network Connectivity - Technical Product Manager

Synchrony - Rapid City, SD

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Rapid City, SD

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About the position

The Technical Product Manager will lead the Connectivity Engineering Team at Synchrony, focusing on evaluating and delivering new connectivity technologies into production environments. This role requires strong communication skills and experience in a matrixed environment, working closely with technical engineering and development teams. The position involves providing technical leadership, defining product strategy, and ensuring feature delivery across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide Technical Leadership, Strategy and Support for Business leaders and Product Owners
• Produce Technology Road Maps
• Define Product Strategy (Capability/Deployment)
• Product Vision and continual product modernization
• Provide Business Strategy to Product Alignment
• Agile Team Management
• Agile Train Epic Management
• Product Feature Adoption
• Feature Delivery Assurance
• Feature Prioritization
• Cross-Train Business Engagement
• Escalation for Product Owners
• Product Cost Management
• Product Reporting
• Audit response and compliance oversight
• Supplier Engagement / Issue Management
• Provide Technology leadership and Technology Guidance for product teams
• Research, pilot, and test new connectivity products and drive modernization and new capabilities
• Assist product owners on technology road maps for Connectivity Engineering products
• Engage with peer Product Managers for business objective alignment and overall product solutioning
• Provide technical leadership for supported product teams
• Partner with Engineering and business teams to resolve connectivity issues, solve business needs and drive outcomes
• Drive IaaC transformation and automation for supported product teams

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree OR in lieu of degree; high school diploma/GED and 10+ years of IT/Networking Experience
• 10+ years of experience in Enterprise Networking/Connectivity Solutions
• Agile Product Manager certification desired
• Cisco CCNP/CCDP certifications strongly desired

Nice-to-haves

• Strong technical background in Enterprise Networking/Connectivity Solutions
• Strong background in DC switching and routing technologies (Cisco Nexus, ACI)
• Strong technical background in Public Cloud Service Providers/Cloud connectivity (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Strong technical background in Cloud Fabric/Transit architecture (Equinix, Aviatrix)
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Python 3.x, Ansible and Terraform
• Understanding of GIT source control management
• Experience in the credit card or financial services industry

Benefits

• Annual bonus based on individual and company performance
• Flexible working options including remote work
• Diversity and inclusion initiatives
• Career development opportunities