Reporting to the Director of EA, you thrive in thinking outside of the box, are in tune with the latest collaboration, productivity and IT service trends and can deliver an ecosystem of solutions for our internal teams. You will develop technological strategies and execution plans that create differentiated value and through fostering strong relationships with cross-functional teams. You will interlock across business and organizational boundaries to develop world-class technological ecosystems.

Key Responsibilities

•    Build a high-performing team for strategy, product development and execution for the Abstraction Layer
•    Set direction for the team in developing API best practices, standards and metrics for API use across the company
•    Coach and mentor API architects in defining API features, architectures, as well as the security setup, scalability and monetization
•    Guide market and customer insights research, technology and trends to identify customer needs, define opportunities and build business cases
•    Act as a consultant to the business on service direction, evolve best standards and practise in API design and contribute to the development of the API Platform
•    Provide vision on the creation and oversight of a combination of current and new systems and technologies  to provide next-gen solutions 
•    Build strategy including ecosystem and partnering recommendations
•    Drive a solution roadmap working in collaboration with Delivery teams, Product teams
•    Lead customer segment-specific strategies, targeted messaging and use cases
•    Evaluate new investments in collaboration with business groups to introduce new solutions as appropriate for specific customer segments
•    Identify, negotiate and secure (build, buy, partner)  COTS systems with strategic partners to build and maintain an industry leading ecosystem
•    Cultivate a full lifecycle approach to evolving our portfolio of capabilities from ideation, development, launch, grow, harvest and retirement

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product management, IT services, consulting or related disciplines with at least 4 years supporting teams
• Experience working in Agile methodologies – Scrum, Kanban, Lean User Experience (UX), XP is desirable
• Experience of PaaS/IaaS – Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Azure is desirable
• Past working experience on API Management
• Purpose-driven leadership with proven ability to inspire, motivate and support the development of team members to achieve excellence in the goals of our team members, customers and business.
• A strategic mindset with strong technical, business and financial acumen; focused on the big picture and strategy while effectively managing diverse, dynamic, competing priorities in with ongoing program accountabilities
• Deep understanding of the competition for target markets and is able to determine competitive positioning, differentiation, and future strategy
• Effective collaboration skills and attention to detail; including the ability to influence and provide thought leadership at all levels of management, cross-functionally and externally, and to represent the company in commercial discussions and negotiations
• Understanding of solution technologies regarding, productivity, information technology, cloud services and cloud computing and AI.
• Able to develop integrated solutions and knowledge of how to integrate and optimize multiple end to end value chains
• Program management skills -- ability to drive team to common goals, set and meet timelines
• Passion for learning and innovation; solutions-oriented with an entrepreneurial spirit
• Telco Experience is desirable