Senior Product Manager - Cloud

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Product Manager to lead the evolution of our central cloud platform, a core enabler of digital transformation within the organisation. Operating at the intersection of technology and business value, the successful candidate will drive the strategic roadmap of our cloud services, ensuring that our platform remains reliable, scalable, and aligned to user needs and GDS principles.

This role requires a visionary yet pragmatic leader who can influence stakeholders across the organisation, translate complex business needs into actionable technical outcomes, and champion a culture of continuous improvement and user-centred design.

Working closely with the Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE), application delivery teams, and governance functions, you will play a key part in enabling efficient, secure, and cost-effective digital services across government.

Your main duties will include:

• Own and drive the cloud platform roadmap, aligning with organisational objectives and user needs.
• Manage and evolve the cloud platform service catalogue and documentation.
• Lead the gathering, prioritisation, and validation of user and stakeholder requirements.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to deliver new platform features.
• Communicate technical platform strategies and decisions to senior stakeholders in a clear, business-aligned manner.
• Track and report on pipeline projects transitioning to the cloud platform.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment and dependency resolution across digital teams.
• Stay current with emerging cloud technologies, GDS service standards, and public sector digital trends.
• Champion agile delivery practices and service ownership in line with DDaT profession standards.
• Support risk management, cost optimisation, and operational resilience of the platform.

Working for your organisation

We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.

UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all., As a Senior Product Manager for the Cloud Platform, you will play a key leadership role in managing the full lifecycle of our platform services. You will shape strategic direction, ensure technical feasibility, and prioritise delivery in line with evolving organisational goals., * Define, maintain, and communicate the cloud platform vision and strategy.

• Build, manage, and iterate on a service catalogue that reflects platform capabilities and user needs.
• Engage with cross-government digital delivery teams to identify requirements and co-design solutions.
• Validate feasibility of enhancements with platform engineering teams, ensuring secure and reliable implementation.
• Oversee integration requirements and dependencies between the cloud platform and digital services.
• Ensure compliance with GDS service standards, Government Technology Code of Practice, and security frameworks (e.g., NCSC).
• Promote and apply agile and iterative product development practices within the cloud context.
• Provide guidance and coordination between platform consumers and CCoE operations and governance.
• Measure and report on service maturity, platform adoption, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Contribute to the development of standards and patterns that scale cloud usage securely and efficiently across the organisation.

This is not an exhaustive list.

Working Relationships

You will work closely with internal product and engineering teams, the Cloud Centre of Excellence, architecture and governance boards, and external digital delivery partners.

Additional Clauses

This role aligns with the GDaD Product and Delivery Management profession and contributes to the wider government digital transformation agenda.

Some travel within the UK may be required for engagement with partner sites., You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the listed essential criteria, and this will be in the form of:

• an application form (‘Employer/ Activity history’ section on the application)
• a 1000 word supporting statement

This should outline how your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria.

You will receive a joint score for your application form and statement. (The application form is the kind of information you would put into your C.V –please be advised you will not be able to upload your CV. Please complete the application form in as much detail as possible). Please do not email us your CV.

Healthjobs UK has a word limit of 1500, but your supporting statement must be no more than 1000 words. We will not consider any words over 1000 words.

Longlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:

• Meets all essential criteria
• Meets some essential criteria
• Meets no essential criteria

Only those meeting all essential criteria will be taken through to shortlisting.

Shortlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on:

• Significant experience in technical product management or digital platform management.

Desirable criteria may be used in the event of a large number of applications / large amount of successful candidates.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview and assessment.

Please do not exceed 1000 words. We will not consider any words over and above this number.

Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Stage 2: Interview (Success Profiles)

You will be invited to a face to face interview in London. In exceptional circumstances, we may be able to offer a remote interview.

Behaviours, experience and technical skills will be tested at interview.

You will be required to prepare a 10 minute presentation as part of the interview. This will cover technical and strategic areas of Product Management. Further details of this will be sent to you prior to the interview.

The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working at Pace

Interviews will be held week commencing 9th February 2026. Please note, these dates are subject to change., If you have spent more than 6 months abroad over the last 3 years you may need an International Police Check. This would not necessarily have to be in a single block, and it could be time accrued over that period.

Internal Fraud check

If successful for this role as one aspect of pre-employment screening, applicant’s personal details – name, national insurance number and date of birth - will be checked against the Cabinet Office Internal Fraud Hub and anyone included on the database will be refused employment unless they can show exceptional circumstances. Currently this is only for External candidates to the Civil Service.

Careers website

Please visit our careers site for more information https://gov.uk/ukhsa/careers Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .

See our vetting charter . People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks., * UK nationals

• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Do you have experience in Software development?, * Significant experience in technical product management or digital platform management.

• In-depth knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) and their core services.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills across both technical and business domains.
• Demonstrated ability to manage roadmaps and deliver technical products within agile teams.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills across all organisational levels.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a user-centred mindset.
• Demonstrable experience managing service backlogs and prioritising platform features.
• Proficient in managing technical risk, service performance, and platform governance.
• A degree-level qualification (Level 6 or above) in a relevant subject such as Digital Product Management, Computer Science, Information Systems, or Business Technology

Desirable role criteria

• Formal certification in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect).
• Experience with service catalogue management tools or platforms.
• Background in software development or infrastructure engineering.
• Knowledge of cost optimisation and FinOps within cloud services.
• Experience working in or with UK central government or ALBs.
• Familiarity with ITSM processes and operational resilience planning.
• Understanding of cloud security principles and incident response.
• Experience supporting transition to cloud-native services and DevSecOps.
• Knowledge of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) tooling.
• Participation in service assessments or public sector assurance processes.
• Familiarity with the Atlassian toolset with a special emphasis on Jira and Confluence., Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Successful candidates will require Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) as a minimum with willingness and capability to work towards Security Check (SC) clearance.

You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 5 years to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. UK residency less than the outlined periods may not necessarily bar you from gaining national security vetting at this higher level and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder / Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice.

£56,185 - £70,566, Alongside your salary of £56,185, UK Health Security Agency contributes £16,276 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%, If you are successful at interview, and are moving from another government department, NHS, or Local Authority, the relevant starting salary principles for level transfers or promotions will apply. Otherwise, roles are offered at the pay scale minimum for the grade, but in exceptional circumstances there may be flexibility if you are able to demonstrate you are already in receipt of an existing, higher salary. Pay increases are through the relevant annual pay award for the role and terms.

Civil Service Grade 7:

£56,185- £66,581 (National) £58,340- £68,574 (Outer London) £60,494- £70,566 (Inner London)

This role qualifies for an annual Market Pay Supplement (MPS) of up to £10,000 based on a capability assessment. MPS review date: 11 September 2026

This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs in either Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool or London. Please note that if you are based in either Birmingham, Leeds or Liverpool, there will be travel to London required on occasion. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, averaged over a month) in our Core HQs. Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC)., UKHSA is investing in a new state-of-the-art National Biosecurity Centre in Harlow, Essex, which will eventually bring together teams currently based at Canary Wharf, Colindale and Porton Down. For more details, please see: Huge biosecurity centre investment to boost pandemic protection - GOV.UK.