The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is seeking a Manager, Product Development to oversee the development and maintenance of product lifecycles, manage cross-functional teams, and ensure the reliability, performance, and safety of transportation IT products.
Requirements
- Strong experience with Esri ArcGIS
- Experience developing and supporting API's
- Expert in a deep understanding of technology.
- Strong ability to develop and implement enterprise product solutions. Ability to prioritize, handle multiple tasks, and work in an agile environment. Ability to quickly learn and understand new technologies.
- Strong experience in managing projects and initiatives.
- Experience in at least one software engineering methodology, including but not limited to: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban, Lean, Rapid Application Development (RAD)
- Expert technical knowledge and diverse skillset to understand various technologies, systems, and potential risks.
Responsibilities
- Oversees rigorous quality assurance processes to deliver reliability, performance, and safety objectives
- Implements the product vision and strategy into the product development team’s work.
- Collaborates with IT and business leaders to create and manage product roadmaps aligned with digital strategies.
- Ensures team compliance with governance processes and adherence to technology architectures and methodologies.
- Develops, manages, and monitors system support processes to maintain product quality and sustainability.
- Supervises a professional team of IT staff in its selection, adoption, development, and support of one or more product lines through all stages of the product lifecycle, from ideation, definition, prototyping, design, validation & testing, launch, run stage, and eventual product retirement.
- Monitors and manages team activities and deliverables for adherence to relevant enterprise and departmental resource, technology, and operational governance/approval processes, and departmentally spanning technology architectures, models, methods, and tools.
Other
- This position is eligible for telework, which is currently two days per week.
- Oversees staff workload and quality of work, addressing performance issues when needed.
- Identifies potential risks to the product and develops mitigation strategies. Escalates risks to leadership as needed.
- Manages product initiatives to be completed on time and within budget.
- Manages through change, including the ability to adapt to shifting priorities and market conditions.
