Role Overview:
Join the Team within Consumer Digital at Client Office. The team focuses on delivering weather data and forecasts via web and mobile platforms through robust APIs.

You will develop, maintain, and operate software components, following best practices and contributing to team knowledge.

Responsibilities:

• Develop software to meet user needs
• Write clean, secure, well-tested code
• Follow and help improve best practice guidelines
• Mentor junior colleagues
• Operate and troubleshoot production services

Essential Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience designing and delivering AWS-based software via APIs
• Excellent communication skills for all stakeholder levels
• Self-motivated with ability to prioritise and lead development activities
• Proficient in Python and AWS CDK

Desirable Skills:

• Git or other source control experience
• Agile development experience aligned with GDS principles
• Experience with AI/Prompt engineering
• Familiarity with scientific data formats (NetCDF, BUFR, GRIB)

• Title: Digital Product Manager
• Location: Exeter - 3 days in office per week- Hybrid
• Type & Duration: Contract| 12months Inside IR35

Job Description:

Overview:

The client is modernising its technology platforms that underpin weather and climate services. The Product Manager will own and enhance internal platforms used by developers, scientists, and service teams, making them reliable, discoverable, and efficient.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop business cases and manage supplier engagements.
• Own platform roadmaps and backlogs, delivering incremental improvements.
• Engage with engineers, architects, and users to prioritize and implement enhancements.
• Measure service outcomes (adoption, usability, performance) and track progress.
• Balance short-term reliability with long-term sustainability and compliance.
• Facilitate collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Promote user-centered, iterative, product-led approaches in a legacy environment.

Requirements:

• Experience managing developer infrastructure products, cloud technologies (AWS/Azure), and commercial services.
• Skilled in Agile/Lean practices in engineering contexts.
• Strong user-centered product development mindset.
• Effective prioritization, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Comfortable navigating legacy systems, complex priorities, and incomplete information.

SBA are currently supporting our Central Government client, who seeking a Chief Solutions Architect on an initial 10 month contract.

Location:Exeter - (2-3 days p/w hybrid working)

Seeking an experienced Product Manager to help shape and improve the internal platforms that our developers, scientists and service teams rely on every day.

You’ll join Platform Technology - a part of the organisation responsible for shared, cross-cutting capabilities such as developer tools, APIs, data pipelines and infrastructure services. Your job is to make these platforms reliable, discoverable and enabling: reducing delivery friction, improving user experience, and helping downstream service teams ship faster and more safely.

What You’ll Do: - Support the development of a business case to invest in service enhancements and engagements with third party suppliers

• Own the roadmap and backlog for one or more shared technology platforms and deliver to the agreed product vision.
• Work with engineers, architects and delivery teams to deliver incremental improvements that make platforms easier to use and maintain.
• Understand internal users - from developers to operations staff - and translate their needs into clear priorities.
• Investigate the development of measurable service outcomes (adoption, usability, performance) and use data to track progress.
• Balance short-term reliability with long-term sustainability and compliance.
• Facilitate collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders; communicate trade-offs transparently.
• Champion product-led and user informed, iterative ways of working in a complex, legacy / brownfield environment.

What We’re Looking For: - Proven experience managing developer infrastructure products and associated cloud technologies e.g. AWS, Azure, shared services.

• Successfully managed commercial services and bought in services
• Ability to apply and adapt Agile and Lean practices in the context of an engineering focused team.
• Strong understanding of user-centred product development, championing the use of user centered design even when the ‘users’ are other engineers.
• Skilled at prioritising by outcome - e.g. using impact vs. effort or cost-of-delay approaches.
• Confident working with cross-disciplinary teams and senior technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in environments with legacy systems, competing priorities and incomplete information.
• Excellent communicator, can translate complex technical issues into clear decisions and trade-offs.

NB: It would be advantageous if applicants have active SC/recently lapsed SC

To apply, please submit latest CV

he Opportunity

This is a 10-month engagement based in Exeter, working around 3 days per week on site (approximately 60% in the office). The role sits inside IR35 and offers a competitive day rate of around £563.42 /day.

You would play a key part in shaping and managing cloud-related digital products and services for our client, ensuring they are commercially sound, secure and deliver real value to stakeholders.

What You Will Be Involved In

• Owning and managing cloud-focused digital products and services across their lifecycle.
• Working closely with internal stakeholders, suppliers and partners to define requirements and priorities.
• Bringing a strong commercial/procurement mindset to contracts, vendor management and value for money.
• Ensuring solutions are secure, resilient and aligned with organisational and government standards.
• Translating complex technical and cloud concepts into clear, outcome-focused roadmaps.

What They Are Looking For

• Proven experience as a Product Manager (ideally within digital/cloud environments).
• Strong background or exposure in commercial and procurement activity (e.g. managing suppliers, contracts or frameworks).
• Active Security Check (SC) clearance is strongly preferred.
• Ability to work on site in Exeter around 3 days per week - realistically based in the South West or within comfortable commuting distance (e.g. Exeter, Devon, Cornwall, Bristol and surrounding areas).
• Background in public sector or regulated environments is advantageous.

Why This Could Appeal to You

• High-impact work in a well-known public sector organisation.
• Day rate aligned with an established incumbent in a specialised area.
• Clear expectations on on-site presence and contract length (10 months).
• Opportunity to leverage both your digital product skills and your commercial/procurement experience.

The client is working to a tight CV deadline and may close early if there is a high volume of strong profiles, so timing is important.

If this sounds potentially interesting, please reply to this email and let me know:

• Your latest CV.
• Your current location and typical commute tolerance.
• Your SC status (active / lapsed / eligible).

Job Title:Cloud Digital Product Manager (SC CLEARED)
Location: Exeter (hybrid - 3 days per week)
Salary/Rate: £513 - 563 per day inside IR35
Start Date: May
Job Type: Initial 10 month contract

CANDIDATES MUST HOLD AN ACTIVE SC CLEARANCE

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Cloud Digital Product Manager to join their team in Exeter on a hybrid basis.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives
We’re looking for an experienced Product Manager to help shape and improve the internal platforms that our developers, scientists and service teams rely on every day.
You’ll join Platform Technology - a part of the organisation responsible for shared, cross-cutting capabilities such as developer tools, APIs, data pipelines and infrastructure services.
Your job is to make these platforms reliable, discoverable and enabling: reducing delivery friction, improving user experience, and helping downstream service teams ship faster and more safely.

• Support the development of a business case to invest in service enhancements and engagements with third party suppliers
• Own the roadmap and backlog for one or more shared technology platforms and deliver to the agreed product vision
• Work with engineers, architects and delivery teams to deliver incremental improvements that make platforms easier to use and maintain
• Understand internal users - from developers to operations staff - and translate their needs into clear priorities
• Investigate the development of measurable service outcomes (adoption, usability, performance) and use data to track progress
• Balance short-term reliability with long-term sustainability and compliance
• Facilitate collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders; communicate trade-offs transparently
• Champion product-led and user informed, iterative ways of working in a complex, legacy / brownfield environment

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Proven experience managing developer infrastructure products and associated cloud technologies e.g. AWS, Azure, shared services
• Successfully managed commercial services and bought in services
• Ability to apply and adapt Agile and Lean practices in the context of an engineering focused team
• Strong understanding of user-centred product development, championing the use of user centered design even when the users are other engineers
• Skilled at prioritising by outcome - e.g. using impact vs. effort or cost-of-delay approaches
• Confident working with cross-disciplinary teams and senior technical stakeholders
• Comfortable operating in environments with legacy systems, competing priorities and incomplete information
• Excellent communicator, can translate complex technical issues into clear decisions and trade-offs

You?ll Thrive Here If You?

• Care about helping others deliver value - “product thinking for platforms”
• Believe in outcomes over output and in learning through iteration
• Value sustainability over speed, preferring well-designed, reliable systems to quick fixes
• Enjoy bringing structure and clarity to technically challenging, interdependent environments
• Are collaborative, pragmatic and curious - a steady hand in a complex system

Measures of Success (6-12 Months)

• Renewal of Cloud technology contracts and supporting services
• Clear, agreed roadmap for your platform area
• Well defined and prioritised backlog supporting the roadmap and operational needs
• Measurable improvement in adoption or usability for key internal users
• Positive feedback from engineering and architecture stakeholders
• Introduction of at least one lightweight product practice improving visibility, flow or learning

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.

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Consumer Digital enables the public to access data through various channels such as the website and mobile apps. Your team within Consumer Digital aims to understand the important data for web scale platforms and make available the latest information through common capability APIs that are robust and well architected.

At this role level, you will:

• Develop software to meet user needs
• Follow best practice guidelines and help to improve those guidelines
• Write clean, secure and well-tested code
• Coach and mentor more junior colleagues
• Operate the services you build and identify issues in production

Essential skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability of designing, implementing and delivering quality and efficient software using Amazon Web Services to deliver data via APIs
• Good communication skills that adapt to all level of stakeholders
• Self-motivated with the ability to prioritise, meet deadlines, and lead development activities
• Demonstrable skills in Python software development
• Demonstrable skills in AWS CDK

Desirable:

• Experience of source control systems such a git
• Experience of AGILE approach to software development following GDS principles
• Experience of using AI/Prompt engineering to aid development
• Experience of scientific data formats such as NetCDF, BUFR, GRIB

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now.

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Description:

Consumer Digital enables the public to access client forecasts and observation data through various channels, such as its website and mobile apps. Understand the important weather data for web-scale platforms and make available the latest science and data through common capability APIs that are robust and well architected.

A developer delivers software components that form part of a product.

At this role level, you will:

• Develop software to meet user needs
• Follow best practice guidelines and help to improve those guidelines
• Write clean, secure and well-tested code
• Coach and mentor more junior colleagues
• Operate the services you build and identify issues in production

Essential and desirable criteria are as follows:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills (Experts by nature)
• Proven ability to design, implement, and delivering quality and efficient software using Amazon Web Services to deliver data via APIs (We keep evolving)
• Good communication skills that adapt to all level of stakeholders (We’re better together)
• Self-motivated with the ability to prioritise, meet deadlines, and lead development activities
• Demonstrable skills in Python software development
• Demonstrable skills in AWS CDK
• Experience of source control systems such as Git
• Experience of AGILE approach to software development following GDS principles
• Experience of using AI / Prompt engineering to aid development
• Experience of scientific data formats such as NetCDF, BUFR, GRIB

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Description:

Consumer Digital enables the public to access client forecasts and observation data through various channels, such as its website and mobile apps. Understand the important weather data for web-scale platforms and make available the latest science and data through common capability APIs that are robust and well architected.

A developer delivers software components that form part of a product.

At this role level, you will:

Develop software to meet user needs

Follow best practice guidelines and help to improve those guidelines

Write clean, secure and well-tested code

Coach and mentor more junior colleagues

Operate the services you build and identify issues in production

Essential and desirable criteria are as follows:

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills (Experts by nature)

Proven ability to design, implement, and delivering quality and efficient software using Amazon Web Services to deliver data via APIs (We keep evolving)

Good communication skills that adapt to all level of stakeholders (We’re better together)

Self-motivated with the ability to prioritise, meet deadlines, and lead development activities

Demonstrable skills in Python software development

Demonstrable skills in AWS CDK

Experience of source control systems such as Git

Experience of AGILE approach to software development following GDS principles

Experience of using AI / Prompt engineering to aid development

Experience of scientific data formats such as NetCDF, BUFR, GRIB

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