Team Lead - Technical Product Management

Role And Responsibilities

CAE Flight Operations Solutions is an industry-leading digital platform trusted by the world’s top airlines and business aviation companies to optimize their operations. Every year, more than 50 million flights and over 200,000 crew members are supported by CAE's flight operations software backed by a global team and unparalleled expertise.

Spanning crew, flight, movement, airport, on-board catering, and cost management, CAE's customizable end-to-end solution improves decision making by harnessing the power of integrated data and advanced technologies to improve operational performance, profitability, employee satisfaction and passenger experience.

The role we are offering you:

The Team Lead - Technical Product Management is responsible for the solution definition for the Crew Tracking capabilities that are leveraged across our Crew Management Platform. The platform enables enhanced long-term planning, innovative tracking and management, and disruption management decision support to help carriers manage crew schedules and keep crew members informed with real-time data.

In this role you will be responsible for operating in lockstep with product management team to create a clear strategic direction to build needs for products in your team's portfolio. You will work with the team and deliver a clear and descriptive set of requirements to enable the delivery of products, features and functionality. Your priority will be seamless integration and alignment of perspectives from a broad set of stakeholders like Product Managers, Technical Anchors, Service Owners and Developers. Are you ready to:

• Work with cross-functional teams to deliver features and significant products.
• Engage frequently with the development teams, facilitates discussions, provides clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation, contributes to design activities and decisions.
• Work with Sr Product Managers, Internal/External Customers and Stakeholders. Routinely collaborates with UX in design decisions as applicable.
• Interact with customers/stakeholders in VOC requirement gathering, fine tuning, and obtaining product feedback.
• Own the releases and sprint backlogs short-term roadmap for MVPs ( minimum viable product ) and quarterly releases.
• Own and manage the backlog, continuously order and prioritize to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
• Partners with Development Leadership/Service Owners to ensure healthy development process.
• Translates unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work unit.
• Mentors junior team members.
• Prioritize continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs.
• Demonstrate superior persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering teams.
• Possess a deep understanding of the technology stack and impact on final product.
• Demonstrate excelling business acumen, know latest industry trends and you are looked at as an internal expert on the product as well as the associated competitive landscape.
• Demonstrate strategic level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.

Our ideal candidate has:

• Working experience or sound knowledge of Cloud based applications.
• Previous crew management experience.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in software engineering and application design and development process with at least 3 years in the Product Management process preferred.
• Bachelor's Degree in related field.
• Good knowledge and experience with SAFe, Agile methodologies and best practices.
• Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related computer field preferred
• Good Development experience in application development preferably in Java/J2EE, Microservices, Webservices, UX space.

Desired Skills

• Willingness to work in a challenging and dynamic environment.
• Excellent problem solving/analytical abilities.
• Experience with industry standard design principles, frameworks and patterns.
• Good in handling conflicts.
• Experience with Rally or similar tools.
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills.

Here are few reasons why folks love working at CAE:

• Be part of a high-performance team.
• Ability to enter and grow within the technology industry.
• Work in a collaborative environment.
• Meaningful work that drives professional development.

Join the engine that is changing CAE, pointing towards the next horizon of growth through digital innovations to support our customers in their success.

Position Type

Regular

CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. With no exception.

As captured in our overarching value "One CAE", we’re proud to work as one passionate, boundaryless and inclusive team.

At CAE, all employees are welcome regardless of race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity or age.

The masculine form may be used in this job description solely for ease of reading, but refers to men, women and the gender diverse.

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