Technical Product Manager - Energy Solutions
McKinsey & Company
IT, Product
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Posted on Oct 3, 2024
Technical Product Manager - Energy Solutions
Job ID: 90609
Do you want to do work that matters, alongside supportive leaders who will help you grow faster than you ever thought possible? Are you a creative problem-solver who is energized by challenges? You’ve come to the right place.
Who You'll Work With
You will be based in our Amsterdam office, joining the Energy Solutions team within McKinsey’s Global Energy & Materials practice.
As a global leader in energy intelligence and analytics, Energy Solutions leverages cutting-edge data and technology to empower organizations across the entire energy value chain. Our team of world-class data scientists and analysts transform data into actionable insights, enabling clients to make well-informed strategic, tactical, and operational decisions. We help organizations capture opportunities, manage risks, and enhance performance.
The Energy Solutions Technology team comprises practitioners with extensive software development experience including developers, designers, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), project managers, and data scientists. Together, they are responsible for the implementation and technical operation of our products.
We build Advanced Analytics solutions for energy players around the world. Our work with government bodies, private and public companies and policy setters is shaping and enabling the energy transition and the decarbonization of economies.
Your impact within our firm
You will join the technology team as a technical product owner, focusing on product development and management. Your responsibilities include participating in product design with the product owner and stakeholders, leading a technical team to implement requirements, and validating technical decisions. You will ensure the development process meets estimates, deadlines, quality standards, and best practices, while also providing recommendations for key design aspects, such as managing technical debt and creating reusable components.
You will develop and maintain the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical feasibility. Monitoring and analyzing product performance metrics to drive continuous improvement will be part of your role. You will coordinate with cross-functional engineering teams ensure successful delivery and ongoing support.
You are expected to define modules, components, interfaces, and data for systems, and develop robust and maintainable solutions.
You should be able to handle relational and non-relational databases with a strong understanding of normalization and modeling, and manage front-end, back-end, and cloud domains.
You will collaborate on developing internal tools, software architecture, and methodologies. You will be an integral part of the core team with opportunities for coaching and mentorship. Furthermore, you will help select, grow, and manage vendor partners.
Your qualifications and skills
- 5+ years of hands on experience of product development experience in agile environments
- Experience with back-end development using Python
- Good understanding of SQL and No-SQL DB systems
- Good understanding of cloud native tools and cloud providers; understanding of AWS. K8S, Helm is a big plus
- Understanding of Object Oriented Design, Design Patterns, Service Oriented, Microservices, and Containers
- Good understanding of Docker and virtualization, and optionally Kubernetes
- Strong leadership and team organization skills
- Proven record of managing complex work, involving various work streams, with cross-functional teams
- Experience in Agile Development, working on product teams or product delivery preferred
- Experience with building consumer quality products, enabling business capability and objectives through technology
- Knowledge and understanding of technical engineering best practices (e.g.test driven development, continuous integration, etc.)
- Relevant technology and security certifications are a plus
- Ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences to enable business outcomes through technology
- Growth mindset, always looking to improve self, work of the team and adapt to the culture of the organization
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Job Skill Code - PCYA - Product Manager I
Function - Technology
Industry -
Post to LinkedIn - Yes
Posted to LinkedIn Date - Fri Aug 09 00:00:00 GMT 2024
LinkedIn Posting City - Amsterdam
LinkedIn Posting State/Province -
LinkedIn Posting Country - Netherlands
LinkedIn Job Title - Technical Product Manager - Energy Solutions
LinkedIn Function - Engineering;Information Technology;Product Management
LinkedIn Industry - Computer Software;Information Technology and Services
LinkedIn Seniority Level - Associate