Product Manager Application Modernization

Hybrid Work Schedule: 2 days a week in office

Job Overview

The Product Manager will lead a large-scale application modernization initiative, overseeing product strategy, roadmap development, requirements gathering, and delivery. This role will serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring the modernized solution aligns with business objectives, enterprise architecture, security, and accessibility standards.

Job Duties

• Define and manage the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the application modernization initiative.

• Elicit, document, prioritize, and manage business and functional user stories from diverse stakeholders.

• Translate business requirements into actionable user stories, acceptance criteria, and product backlog items.

• Collaborate with solution architects, developers, UX/UI designers, and vendors to evaluate technical approaches, architecture, platforms, and integration strategies.

• Prioritize features and technical work based on business value, risk, dependencies, and strategic objectives.

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.

• Define success metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) and track progress against established goals.

• Support change management, user adoption, and training initiatives associated with the modernized solution.

• Ensure the product aligns with applicable security, data privacy, accessibility, and compliance standards.

• Identify and manage project risks, dependencies, and impediments, driving resolution as needed.

• Provide regular status updates, progress reports, and recommendations to IT leadership and business sponsors.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 5 years of experience as a Product Manager leading large-scale, $10 million public-sector modernization efforts.

• Demonstrated experience modernizing legacy applications or leading digital transformation projects.

• Strong experience gathering user stories from diverse business stakeholders and converting them into actionable product backlogs.

• Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools, such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar platforms.

• Experience overseeing and testing large data conversions.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.

• Strong organizational and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage competing demands.

• YAFOS Certification.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise application modernization, including migrating from legacy platforms and transitioning to modern architectures.

• Familiarity with the Microsoft technology stack, cloud platforms such as Azure, or content management systems.

• Experience with process improvement and business process reengineering.

• Knowledge of accessibility standards, including WCAG 2.1, and public-sector compliance requirements.

• Previous experience working with Commonwealth of Pennsylvania agencies or similar public-sector organizations.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.