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Technical Product Manager
Fox
Washington, DC, United States
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Description
The National Geographic Technology team is seeking a Technical Product Manager for the API, Services and Data Integrations teams. At National Geographic, we heavily depend on various APIs and data integrations for consumer websites and integration system integrations to power several owned and operated, as well as vendor managed US and Global digital properties. The Services Teams own the technology strategy and implementation of these APIs and integrations, but also partners with various teams in an open source manner encouraging contributions and collaboration. This privileged integration point exposes our team to a wide variety of technology challenges spanning various domains such as identity management, meta-data services, content aggregation, distribution and transformations, as well as data synchronization between internal and external partners such as Apple, Facebook, and Google.
Partnering with various product and engineering stakeholders, you will own and represent the priorities, backlog, and technology roadmap for National Geographic services and data integrations teams.
Responsibilities
• Owns the Services Teams' priorities and backlog, working with various product managers, project managers and engineering leads. Is the primary point of contact for the teams’ roadmap and delivery. This includes creating agile stories, developing metrics driven Acceptance Criteria and performing user acceptance testing. Represents the team in cross-team and program level planning activities.
• Enable technology solution design and implementation working with Product Managers, Solution Architects, Engineering Architects, Internal / External API customers, Software Engineers, Automation Engineers and Testers. This includes product and technology requirement definition, solution implementation and governance, cross-team dependency planning, software rollout & adoption planning.
• Provide technology leadership and stewardship of the services and data integration platform focusing on developing a technology roadmap based on established priorities and strategic engineering goals aligned to various engineering groups such as Enterprise Architecture, Platform Engineering, Quality Assurance, Performance, Operations and Support.
• Contribute, support and implement best practices around software engineering and technical debt management. Strongly advocate and coordinate quality oriented mindset, reusability, research and review industry practices around APIs and data services, and related technology management and Agile workflows.
Qualifications
• Minimum 5 years experience in a technical lead position, engaging with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Minimum 3 years experience developing large multi-tier API / web services, data integrations and related web applications.
• Ability to convert business needs to actionable plans leading conversations between non-technical and technical folk.
• Strong understanding of software development and agile practices as related to work coordination, story writing, acceptance criteria, as well as dependency and deployment management.
• Strong understanding of API / web service architectures and concerns - Microservices, Service Oriented Architecture, security, high availability, load, performance, encryption etc.
• Experience using and developing RESTful APIs using JSON, RSS, and other API / hypermedia ormats.
• Experience with event-based and message-driven distributed systems eg. Celery, RabbitMQ etc.
• Experience working with API gateway, server, cache technologies such as Apache, Nginx, Squid, Varnish, ha_proxy.
• Knowledge of data stores and related topics - NoSQL and RDBMS - eg. Memcached, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL etc.
Big Pluses/Nice to have:
• Experience with developing and deploying software to Amazon Web Services or similar Cloud platforms.
• International data compliance and security experience as related to API and data storage.
• Geographically distributed API and data integration experience.
• Amazon AWS certifications.
• Scrum/Agile certification.
• Conveys business and technical concepts in written form to technical and non-technical audiences – white papers, presentations, documentation etc.
• The ability to work on multiple concurrent projects is essential. Strong self-motivation and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Willingness to learn and desire to help drive the development team forward.
• Must be a team-oriented individual, energetic, result & delivery oriented, with a keen interest on quality and the ability to meet deadlines.
Division Description
National Geographic Partners LLC (NGP), a joint venture between National Geographic and 21st Century Fox, is committed to bringing the world premium science, adventure and exploration content across an unrivaled portfolio of media assets. NGP combines the global National Geographic television channels (National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo WILD, Nat Geo MUNDO, Nat Geo PEOPLE) with National Geographic’s media and consumer-oriented assets, including National Geographic magazines; National Geographic studios; related digital and social media platforms; books; maps; children’s media; and ancillary activities that include travel, global experiences and events, archival sales, licensing and e-commerce businesses. Furthering knowledge and understanding of our world has been the core purpose of National Geographic for 129 years, and now we are committed to going deeper, pushing boundaries, going further for our consumers … and reaching millions of people around the world in 172 countries and 43 languages every month as we do it. NGP returns 27 percent of our proceeds to the nonprofit National Geographic Society to fund work in the areas of science, exploration, conservation and education. For more information visit natgeotv.com or nationalgeographic.com, or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.