Technical Product Manager - Hybrid working

With over 20 years of experience, our global network of passionate technologists and pioneering craftsmen deliver cutting-edge technology and game-changing consulting to companies on the brink of transformation. Since 2001, we have grown from a Java company into a full-service digital consulting company with 5,500+ professionals working on a worldwide ambition.

We are organized in complementary service lines – teams with a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience within a particular field, such as Agile, DevOps, Data and AI, Cloud, Software Technology, Functional Programming, Intelligent Automation, and Microsoft.

We help the world’s top 250+ companies and category leaders overcome digital challenges, embrace innovation, adopt new technology, and implement new business models. In addition to high-quality consulting, we also provide offshoring and nearshoring services.

As a Technical Product Manager at Xebia, you will lead the migration standalone applications consisting of complex computational workloads onto Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment for our pharmaceutical clients. This strategic and tactical role blends deep technical expertise with product management skills to drive complex migration projects from conception to successful implementation.

You will serve as the critical bridge between technical implementation teams, business stakeholders, and scientific community end users, ensuring that scientific computing workloads maintain integrity and performance while aligning with business priorities. Create and maintain a comprehensive migration roadmap that outlines stages, dependencies, and release schedules for standalone applications

Support architectural design and technical planning efforts, ensuring solutions meet both business and technical needs

Understand and document specific HPC workload requirements during migration planning

Collaborate with engineers to develop migration strategies that maintain HPC performance benchmarks

Ensure HPC applications maintain required computational performance when migrated to cloud infrastructure

Balance performance needs with cloud cost optimization for compute-intensive applications

5+ years of experience in technical product management or similar roles

~ Expertise with Agile methodologies and product development lifecycle

~ Demonstrated background in cloud migration projects, preferably with GCP

~ Technical foundation in software development (preferably full-stack) or equivalent knowledge and experience

~ Strong understanding of containerisation (Docker), Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure

~ Familiarity with database migrations and administration

~ Knowledge of API integration and development practices

~ Experience working with enterprise applications (especially a bonus if high-performance computing environments)

~ Adaptability and resilience to thrive in ambiguous, evolving project environments

~ Understanding of performance benchmarking and optimization techniques for compute-intensive applications