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Cotality is no ordinary company. We’re the only holistic data, insights and workflow solutions provider for the property ecosystem—serving industries ranging from real estate to public policy to retail—and counting. Together, we're making the complex more seamless, more unified and more resilient to whatever the future may hold.

Cotality is committed to investing in the most talented employees providing them with career advancement opportunities, and supportive, visible, and trusted leadership. We foster a collaborative culture with work-life balance. At Cotality, you will be a part of an inclusive enterprise team that does impactful and meaningful work, shaping the future of the property industry and beyond.

Job Description:

As a hands-on Technical Product Manager, you will coordinate efforts from resources in multiple locations (domestic and/or international), to meet technology and product goals. You will play a central role in managing and transforming a complex ecosystem of applications that have a mix of legacy technologies and cloud native technologies. This candidate will manage the day to day resources and stories within the backlog.

You will be agile, adaptable and retrospective; not afraid to identify what we are doing wrong so we can fix it and what we are doing right so we can improve on it.

Job Duties

Work with the product management to get the product vision defined, get the product roadmap created 

Promoting Product ideas into features: Get the product roadmap items converted to Epics, refine them with the help of PO, Architects, Principal/Lead Engineer and SMEs

Prioritizing features to be delivered: Get the product backlog prioritized by the product management regularly

Break down features into workable items: Decompose the Business Epics to User stories, refine them with the development team and get them estimated

Work with the Architect/ Principal engineer to get Solution architecture laid out. Identify tech enabler Epics, decompose them to enabler stories then prioritized alongside user stories. 

Managing Scope: Define the scope/objective of the sprints

Managing Timelines: Define timelines for the delivery of key features by factoring the estimate of the work and the capacity of the team 

Managing team commitments: Hold team accountable for meeting the sprint commitments. Be a servant leader. Promote self-organizing team-culture. Unblock their impediments. Keep the motivation and the morale of the team members up

Managing quality of the delivered software: Promote test-driven approach. Set standards with unit test coverage. Encourage teams to refactor the code to improve maintainability.  Work with the QA members to manage the defects in INT/UAT

Managing production roll out: Ensure UAT completion. Get product signoff. Raise change requests for product deployments. Get Veracode scan reports created for the modified components and get ISM approval. Get the Enterprise change manager approval for the CR. Manage the production roll-out activities. Carry out product checkout with PO

Analyzing Product Manager feature requests and drives Product Development from the start until its competition

Collaborate with the product management to get the requirements defined, work with the team leads (PO, Architect, Principal engineer, SMEs) to decompose the requirements to actionable plan (stories), plan the execution in sprints, take care of release management activities, promote frequent delivery with incremental value to the end-users

Job Qualifications:

Education, Experience, Knowledge and Skills

Bachelor's degree in computer science, MIS, or related discipline, or equivalent related experience

Expected to have at least 5 years of IT experience, aligned with 3+ years in Senior/Lead BA or 2+ years in Product/Proxy-Product Owner roles

Expert knowledge in BA approaches/tools, project coordination and management functions on 1+ projects, delivering sustainable solutions (+excellent understanding of Agile principles and values)

Fundamental knowledge of SDLC and PM methodologies

Able to analyze, design and deliver a Full-Stack technical solution to the client

Have clear understanding of the best engineering practices

Expected to have an excellent SDLC understanding

Strong in effort estimation, planning and scheduling delivery

Able to dive deep into problem areas and provide support for the delivery to resolve those problems

Proven ability to self-manage and drive results (organize, prioritize, time manage and focus).

Solid fundamentals in end-to-end application architecture for customer facing and internal applications.

Experience with cloud native ecosystems as well as legacy systems

Excellent communication skills required to translate business needs into technical terms

Ability to influence decision making across wide a variety of roles and levels in the organization

Proven record to handle multiple complex initiatives and deliver quality results

Demonstrated understanding in how to create value through enterprise technology, data and application architecture principles

Positive client engagement at senior levels, managing and navigating with peers and business line leader

Customer oriented: meets individual commitments, works with the team to achieve team commitments, responds to request in a timely manner, willing to help

Product Management

Creation of Epics

Decomposition of epics to user stories

Creation and management of technical enabler stories

Collaboration with the necessary stakeholders like PO, SMEs, Principal engineer for requirement elicitation

Ad hoc requirements management

Managing UAT 

Delivery Management

Sprint execution

Facilitation skills - planning, stand-up, demo, retro, refinement  

Impediment management

Capacity planning

Estimation  

Team management - communication, collaboration, inter-personal conflict management, servant leadership

Distributed Agile team management  

Application Lifecyle management tool – JIRA: reports, dashboards

Test management – INT

Release management

Production support  

Status reporting and stakeholder communication management

Engineering

Collaboration with the Anchor for defining the architectural runway

Digital architectural best practices – Micro products and services

Collaboration with UI/UX designer for Wireframes and prototypes

Focus on test automation

Handling non-functional requirements

Basic understanding of APIs

Foundational GCP

Observability ​

Product analytics  

Nice to Haves:

Experience in helping to design and implement large-scale application architecture

Experience applying XP and TDD to existing applications

PdM Basics is "nice-to-have", but not required/expected

Required Skills:

Agile Methodology, Design, Planning Ability, Problem Resolution

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Thrive with Cotality

At Cotality, we offer more than just a job, we provide a benefits experience designed to support your whole self. From a flexible working model to competitive time off and standout health coverage with meaningful perks and growth opportunities, our package is built to help you thrive at work and in life.

Cotality is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to attracting and retaining the best-qualified people available, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability or status as a veteran of the Armed Forces, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Cotality maintains a Drug-Free Workplace. ​

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