(JOB) I.T. Product Manager / Architect – Bay Area, CA
The I.T. Product Manager / Architect is responsible for, or
contributes to the following activities:
- Specifying market requirements for current and future products by
conducting market research
- Driving a solution set across development teams through market
requirements, product contract, and positioning.
- Analyzing potential partner relationships for the product.
- Development of demos, proofs of concept and prototypes
This position requires strong win-win relationships with technical
experts in Europe and other staff in the US as well as with external
partners.
As I.T. Product Manager / Architect, you will guide a development team
that is charged with a product line contribution. You will build
products from existing ideas, and help to develop new ideas based on
your vision, industry experience and your contact with users. You must
possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture
vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You must enjoy
spending time in the market to understand their problems, and find
innovative solutions for the broader market.
Responsibilities
- Project and Product Management
- Research and anticipation of new ideas, new technologies and new
methodologies to speed development time and increase the level of
innovation
- Business planning and modeling
- Gather design requirements and create product vision
- Internal/external communications
- Software development
Qualifications
- BA or BS; Computer Science or Engineering preferred
- MBA a plus
- 5 years experience developing consumer internet products and
technologies
- Previous product management experience a plus
- Previous I.T. architecture / product development experience a must
- Experience with taking a medium/large scale consumer web app from
concept -design- production to operation
- Hands-on experience with consumer-facing high-volume sites,
especially the systems aspects of the deployment
- Ability to work in an agile environment with rapid product
innovation and iteration
- Self-starter who is highly organized, learns quickly, and is a team
player.
- Good analytical and organizational capabilities
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to communicate results to clients, partners and colleagues
is critical
- Strong sense of business issues in the Internet and Mobile sectors.
Technical skills:
- Previous experience with architecting and/or developing complex web
scale apps
- Experience developing data center architectures in mission critical
environments. These architectures should address system, storage,
network, security, and facilities aspects of the data center.
- Strong comprehension of data center design and planning in mission
critical environments that includes the following domains:
- Network, network security, and network load balancing with regards
to capacity, scalability, availability, and network virtualization
- Server and systems with regards to capacity, scalability, server
consolidation, server visualization, and grid computing
- Storage with regards to capacity, scalability, virtualization,
availability, and business continuity
- Database and application architectures with regards to active,
active data center hosting models
- Disaster recovery and business continuity
- Facilities with regards to power, cooling, layout, and space planning
- A specific focus on Green tech and it's applicability to the data
center of the future
- Solid experience and knowledge of Linux
- Familiar with open-source Internet-oriented technologies &
architectures.
- Well versed with the LAMP stack, Java/J2EE
- Good with rapid prototyping using Perl, Python and Ruby-on-Rails
framework
Additional requirements
- This position requires collaboration with teams in Europe, UK and
Spain which may imply trips to Europe for short periods of time
- Accurate, thorough, reliable, autonomous with a global vision of the
telecommunication
- Skilled at writing reports for an international reader (decision
makers, managers, technical experts, business experts)
Best Regards,
Joseph L. Nazoa | Sr. Recruiter | Apech Inc. - Staffing Solutions
Nationwide
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