Lead Product Manager
Lead Product Manager (Technical SME) at Finastra acting as a technical strategist for payments platforms GlobalPayPlus and Payments To Go — owning initiatives end to end from architecture and solution design through delivery and adoption, using Java/Spring Boot microservices, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Kafka/MQ, PostgreSQL/Oracle, and multi-cloud tooling.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Pune, India
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Category
- Product
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 15+ years of experience leading large cross-functional programs from initiation through delivery and business value
- Proven track record of product management accomplishments with end-to-end execution of initiatives
- Experience managing dependencies, stakeholders, and executive communications
- Experience working with global teams, executive leadership, and customer engagements
- Strong Payments and Banking domain experience
- Knowledge of payment processing platforms
- Deep expertise in microservices architecture, infrastructure & 3rd-party components, and multi-cloud platforms
- Enterprise platform modernization and cloud-native platforms experience
- Ability to evaluate technology options and define long-term architecture roadmaps
- Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Kafka, MQ, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, PostgreSQL, Oracle
- Integrations over REST, MQ, Kafka
- REST APIs and API Gateways
- OAuth, OIDC, Central Key Management
- CI/CD and DevOps toolchains
- Logging, monitoring, and observability platforms
- Ability to balance business priorities, technical decisions, and customer adoption goals
Full description
Who are we?
At Finastra, we’re a global leader in financial services software, dedicated to expanding access to financial services and shaping what’s next for the industry. Our technology powers mission‑critical solutions across Lending, Payments and Universal Banking, supporting over 7,000 customers, including 80% of the world’s top 50 banks, in more than 110 countries.
Job Title
Lead Product Manager (Technical SME)
Role Summary
We are looking for an experienced Lead Product Manager (Technical SME) who will act as a technology think tank for strategic initiatives across the payments domain applications GlobalPayPlus and Payments To Go. The role requires deep expertise in microservices architecture, infrastructure & 3rd party components and multi-cloud platforms and services.
The candidate will drive end-to-end technical initiatives from initiation through deployment and adoption. The candidate will participate in implementing the technical strategy, solution definition, planning, coordination, tracking, governance, and delivery execution.
The role combines technical leadership, program management, and product thinking to ensure successful business outcomes.
The candidate will work closely with product owners, engineering teams, architects, customers, and adopters to shape technical direction, integration strategy and implementation planning.
This role will report into the org of Director-Technical Product Management.
Key Responsibilities
- Define technical strategy and architecture in alignment with the Technology roadmap for payments platforms and modernization initiatives.
- Own strategic technical initiatives from concept through deployment, adoption, and business outcomes.
- Lead technical solution design, migration and transformation initiatives across payments platforms and infrastructure.
- Lead technical assessments, facilitate architecture decisions, technology evaluations, AI solution integration and migration strategies.
- Review solutions & designs and emphasize on the performance , scalability, resiliency, security, and operational testing and readiness as a product stakeholder .
- Drive planning, execution, governance, and stakeholder alignment across product, engineering, architecture, operations, and customer teams.
- Work with the Program Management teams and define milestones, dependencies, risks, and delivery progress.
- Partner with customers and adopters to define requirements, rollout plans, and adoption strategies.
- Align business objectives, technical direction, and delivery outcomes. Provide strategic guidance to senior stakeholders.