: Senior Product Manager – Business Applications

Total Experience: 15 - 20 years

Position Overview

We are looking for a highly experienced and forward-thinking Senior Product Manager – IT Assessment & Modernization with 15+ years of experience, including strong expertise in the Banking and/or Insurance domain.

The ideal candidate will be a strategic technology leader who can assess complex IT landscapes, understand business and technology challenges, identify modernization opportunities, and define a clear 2–3 year technology and product roadmap.

This role requires a strong combination of business acumen, product thinking, technology exposure, analytical ability, stakeholder management, and execution planning. The candidate should be comfortable working with diverse teams and senior stakeholders to establish a vision, define priorities, and translate the vision into an actionable execution plan.

The role is particularly suited for a technology leader who understands the expectations of the younger generation of customers and employees, evolving digital experiences, modern platforms, and emerging technologies.

Experience & Qualifications

- 15+ years of overall experience in Product Management, Technology Strategy, IT Consulting,

Digital Transformation, Enterprise Applications, Technology Architecture, or related areas.
- Significant experience in Banking and/or Insurance is mandatory.
- Proven experience leading technology assessments, transformation programs, application modernization, or enterprise product initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience in developing and executing multi-year product / technology roadmaps.
- Strong experience engaging with senior business and technology stakeholders.
- Experience working across multiple teams and functions in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong understanding of modern technology trends, platforms, APIs, AI, front-end and back-end technologies.
- Define a practical 2–3 year product and technology roadmap.
- Identify and prioritize application modernization opportunities.
- Align business and technology stakeholders around strategic priorities.
- Leverage contemporary technologies such as AI, APIs, cloud, and modern application architectures.
- Translate strategic thinking into a clear and executable transformation plan.
- Experience working in large-scale transformation programs is highly desirable.





Ideal Candidate Profile

We are looking for a strategic technology thinker rather than a purely operational Product Manager.

Key Responsibilities:

1. IT Assessment & Technology Strategy

- Lead comprehensive assessments of existing applications, platforms, technology stacks, processes, and architecture.
- Analyze current-state IT environments and identify gaps, risks, technical debt, scalability challenges, and modernization opportunities.
- Evaluate applications and platforms from business value, technology maturity, customer experience, scalability, security, and cost perspectives.
- Develop recommendations for application modernization, platform transformation, consolidation, replacement, or re-engineering.
- Define target-state technology and product vision aligned with business objectives.

2. Product Vision & Roadmap

- Establish a clear product and technology vision for the next 2–3 years.
- Create strategic roadmaps covering product capabilities, technology modernization, platform evolution, and digital transformation.
- Translate business objectives into product priorities, initiatives, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
- Define the execution strategy and sequencing of initiatives based on business value, technical feasibility, dependencies, and investment.
- Develop a balanced roadmap addressing short-term business priorities and long-term transformation goals.

3. Stakeholder Management

- Partner with business leaders, technology teams, architects, engineering teams, operations, product owners, and other stakeholders.
- Work effectively with people from different functions, levels, backgrounds, and technical disciplines.
- Facilitate stakeholder discussions to understand business needs, pain points, priorities, and future expectations.
- Present assessment findings, recommendations, technology strategy, and roadmaps to senior leadership.
- Build consensus across stakeholders and effectively manage conflicting priorities.




- Act as a bridge between business strategy and technology execution.

4. Application Modernization

- Lead strategic assessment of legacy applications and identify modernization opportunities.
- Define modernization strategies such as re-platforming, re-hosting, refactoring, re-architecting, replacement, or retirement.
- Assess application dependencies, integration architecture, technical debt, scalability, performance, and maintainability.
- Recommend modern technology architectures and platforms that support future business growth.
- Drive modernization initiatives toward cloud-native, API-first, modular, scalable, and resilient architectures.

5. Technology & Platform Exposure The candidate should have strong conceptual and practical exposure to modern technology ecosystems, including:

- AI / Generative AI / Machine Learning
- API-led architecture and API Management
- Front-End technologies and modern digital experiences
- Back-End technologies and distributed systems
- Cloud platforms and cloud-native technologies
- Microservices and containerized architectures
- Enterprise application platforms
- Data platforms, analytics, and integration

6. Banking & Insurance Domain Leadership

Banking and/or Insurance domain experience is mandatory.

- Strong understanding of Banking and/or Insurance business processes, products, customer journeys, and technology ecosystems.
- Ability to understand domain-specific technology challenges and regulatory considerations.
- Experience working with enterprise applications and platforms supporting financial services.
- Strong understanding of digital transformation trends within Banking and Insurance.
- Ability to identify opportunities to improve customer experience, operational efficiency, automation, and digital adoption.

7. Analytical & Strategic Thinking

- Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Analyze complex information and convert it into actionable recommendations.
- Evaluate multiple technology and product options and establish explicit decision frameworks.
- Demonstrate strong thought process, strategic thinking, and commercial awareness.
- Challenge conventional approaches and identify innovative solutions.
- Balance customer needs, business value, technology feasibility, risk, and investment.

📌 Senior Product Manager - Business Applications (Hyderabad)
🏢 Navsan
📍 Hyderabad