Technical Product Manager

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Job Title: Technical Product Manager
Location-Type: Remote (East Coast candidates preferred)
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 6-12 Month Contract
Compensation Range: $80/hr - $90/hr on W2
Benefits: Eligible for Health, Dental, Vision, and 401K
Visa Sponsorship: Not eligible for visa sponsorship

Job Description:
The client is seeking a Technical Product Manager to lead a structured, service-by-service modernization of core backend services, bridging business objectives and engineering execution to drive a scalable, cloud-forward architecture.

Job Summary
Own prioritization and trade-offs for the cross-team technical roadmap in alignment with product and engineering leadership, ensuring high-priority work is clearly defined and sequenced for delivery.
Partner with engineering managers and tech leads to shape, document, and refine technical requirements, capturing architectural decisions, constraints, and cross-team contracts.
Proactively identify, track, and manage cross-team dependencies, surfacing trade-offs and reshaping sequencing to enable independent, on-time delivery.
Decompose complex initiatives into outcome-oriented, sprint-sized increments that deliver observable and measurable business value.
Serve as the product advocate for initiatives, translating business drivers to technical stakeholders and technical considerations to non-technical stakeholders.
Build and maintain a clear understanding of current-state architecture, data flows, and operational constraints as the foundation for forward-looking modernization strategy.
Partner with architecture and engineering leadership to identify opportunities to simplify, decouple, and evolve services toward a modular, scalable, and maintainable ecosystem.

Minimum Requirements:
4 years of experience as a Product Manager, Technical Product Manager, Technical Program Manager, or in a comparable role such as Developer or Business Analyst with equivalent responsibilities.
Demonstrated technical fluency across system architecture, data pipelines, microservices, and contract design, with the ability to engage in technical trade-off discussions without owning implementation.
Hands-on experience with API design and integration architecture, including REST APIs, GraphQL, and complex data flows.
Experience leading or contributing to legacy modernization or replatforming initiatives, including cloud migration from mainframe or legacy environments.
Proven ability to map and manage dependencies in complex, multi-team environments using tools such as Jira or Confluence.
Strong communication skills with the ability to translate between technical constraints and business impact across diverse stakeholder groups.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in the financial services or lending industry.
Background in software engineering or systems architecture.
Familiarity with containerization and cloud infrastructure, including technologies such as PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS or Google Cloud platforms.
Experience with iterative greenfield development and architecture modernization projects.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.