Product Manager – Cloud and Applications Security – ProViso Consulting

Title of the Job: Product Manager – Cloud and Applications Security

Location: Toronto, ON

Job Description: Story Behind the Need:

• Business group: Cryptography – – HM’s team is a product group within Cloud and Applications Security
• Project: Cloud Acceleration Program – moving towards Google Cloud – HM is product owner for entire security application portfolio, this contractor will be the product manager for one of the following AppSec capabilities: SAST, DAST, MAST, SCA. Transformation building of new capabilities for application security.

Candidate Value Proposition:

• The successful candidate will be instrumental in delivering the next generation security products through a large-scale transformation effort at the Bank.

Typical Day in Role:

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the Bank – you will work closely with development and engineering, devops, cloud, application security and other application owner teams across the organization to deliver AppSec capabilities: SAST, DAST, MAST, SCA
• Define the objectives and scope of the product, clearly outlining the problems and risks it’s solving.
• Product Strategy:

o Contribute to the success of our product strategy by driving stakeholder alignment, maintaining a clear RACIs and clearly articulating MVP success criteria and rollout plans

• Product Management:

o Build and maintain product roadmaps.
o Communicate roadmap progress with stakeholders and clients
o Manage and prioritize the product backlog, along with new features and enhancements we require from the product
o Facilitate forums and prepare the team for constructive collaboration sessions with cross-functional teams, technology and business channels, and control functions
o Define and report on overall product status, metrics, key achievements, next steps and risks with a data-driven approach
o Data Driven Insights and Presentation Skills
o Excellent presentation skills – as a Product Manager, you will be the spokesperson for your product to the organization at large. You should be proficient at creating presentations and comfortable speaking to a large leadership audience.
o You will articulate product roadmap decisions based on sound data. You must therefore be proficient with data analysis (using MS excel etc.), as it is a key skill in driving a data-driven approach to decision making.
o You are comfortable with developing business cases with a clear cost/benefit analysis and cost allocation model to unlock funding for your roadmap items (with Technology, PMO, and Finance approvals).Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 10+ years’ relevant working experience in IT (application development, security etc.)
• 3+ years’ experience as a full-stack Product Manager, with demonstrated experience in creating roadmaps, scoping, and financing
• 3+ years’ experience with AppSec domains like SAST, SCA, DAST and/or tools like Veracode, Checkmarx, Fortify, Snyk, Burp Suite, Zap etc.
• 3+ years’ experience with documenting process, requirements, and product information
• 1+ year’ experience building business cases and demonstrating value of a product and cost-benefit analysis

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• 3+ years’ experience with CI/CD Pipeline tools and processes like BitBucket/GitHub, Jfrog Artifactory, Ansible, Confluence, Jira, Bamboo etc
• Experience with deployment and managing IaaS, PaaS & SaaS solutions
• 3+ years’ experience in the financial industry or tech/startups

Soft Skills Required:

• Excellent presentation skills – as a Product Manager, you will be the spokesperson for your product to the organization at large
• Proficient at creating presentations and comfortable speaking to a large leadership audience.
• Demonstrable communication capability including verbal presentations to senior leadership

Education:

• Education doesn’t matter as much – valuing work experience more
• Security certifications like CISSP an asset

Best VS. Average Candidate:

• Ideal candidate is very detail oriented, analytical, organized; strong product manager who has worked in a tech company, startups.

Candidate Review & Selection

• 1 round – in person preferred – Tuesdays, Wednesday, Thursdays
• 1st – HM – 1 hour – whiteboarding session/scenario-based question shared live in interview to demonstrate candidate thought process

Job Details12488Contract6 monthsToronto

Company Name: ProViso Consulting

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