Hays
Lead Product Manager
Requirements
Active SC Clearance and active NPPV3 Clearance are mandatory; lapsed clearances are not accepted. The role calls for extensive AWS architecture expertise, technical leadership, security and compliance knowledge, infrastructure-as-code experience, and cloud migration and optimization capabilities.
Job Description
Your new company
You will be working for a known organisation as a Lead Product Manager. This role requires someone with active SC Clearance and active NPPV3 clearance. The role is working remotely.
Your new role
Job Description:
*Cloud Solution Design:
o Design scalable, secure, and highly available architectures using AWS services such as EC2,
o Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, VPC, and CloudFront
Select appropriate AWS services based on business requirements, performance needs, and cost considerations.
*Architecture Governance & Standards
o Define and enforce cloud architecture best practices, patterns, and standards.
o Ensure solutions adhere to security frameworks, compliance rules, IAM principles, and AWS
o Well Architected Framework guidelines.
*Technical Leadership
o Provide technical direction to engineering teams, developers, DevOps engineers, and data specialists.
o Review solution designs, perform architectural assurance, and guide teams through implementation challenges.
*Security & Compliance
o Implement security controls including IAM policies, encryption, network segmentation,
o monitoring, and threat detection.
o Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, ISO27001, PCI DSS) through AWS-native tools and architectural controls.
*Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
o Lead the adoption of IaC using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.
o Standardize reusable templates and modules for consistent and repeatable deployments across environments.
Performance & Cost Optimisation
Monitor workloads using tools like CloudWatch, Trusted Advisor, and Cost Explorer.
o Optimise infrastructure for performance, reliability, cost efficiency and operational excellence.
*Cloud Migration & Modernisation
o Define migration strategies including rehosting, refactoring, replatforming, and
o containerisation.
o Design modern architectures involving microservices, serverless, APIs, and event driven patterns.
* Stakeholder Engagement
o Act as the technical counterpart to product owners, business stakeholders, and delivery managers.
o Communicate complex cloud concepts in clear, non-technical language when needed.
Troubleshooting & Escalation
Provide advanced support for complex issues across application, infrastructure, and integration layers.
o Lead root cause analysis for high priority incidents involving AWS workloads.
*Continuous Improvement & Innovation
o Stay current with new AWS services and architectural trends.
o Identify opportunities to modernise, automate, simplify, or improve existing cloud environments
What you'll need to succeed
You will need to have active SC Clearance and active NPPV3 Clearance. Clearances that have lapsed unfortunately won't work.
What you need to do now
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About Hays
At Hays, we believe that the right job can transform a person's life - and the right person can transform a business. From career‑defining opportunities to complex workforce strategies, we connect ambition with opportunity - helping people and organisations reimagine what’s possible. Every year we place over 200,000 professionals into new roles. Whether it’s a permanent role or a temporary contract, our specialist consultants provide tailored advice and market intelligence to accelerate careers, from emerging talent to executive leadership. For organisations, our expert teams build recruitment and workforce solutions shaped by real-time market insights, local expertise and the scale of a world leading specialist in white collar hiring. With operations in 30 countries, over 200 offices and 9,500 colleagues worldwide, we fill around 1,000 roles every working day. The future of work isn’t something we’re waiting for. We’re creating it every day.