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Job Title: Product Manager, Beacon Products Salary Range: Min: $106,035 Mid: $141,380 Max: $176,725 Hay Points: 805 Dept/Div: MTA IT/ Office of IT Product Management Supervisor: Deputy Chief Applications Operations Location: 2 Broadway New York, NY 10004 Hours of Work: 8:30am - 5:00pm (7.5 hours/day) In order to protect our employees and continue to provide safe and reliable service to our communities, as of November 14, 2021, we are requiring all new MTA hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to their start date. MTA will consider exceptions for religious and medical reasons, where appropriate. "Fully vaccinated" means you must have both doses of a 2-dose vaccine and two weeks have elapsed since the second dose, or have received 1 dose of a 1-dose vaccine and two weeks have elapsed since the dose. Proof of your vaccination status in the form of a CDC vaccine card must be submitted prior to your start date. Summary The Product Manager is responsible for developing and maintaining an assigned product or products of MTA applications and/or infrastructure and in essence owns the product life cycle for these products. The Product Manager is responsible for managing technical IT staff assigned to design, build, and maintain one or more application-based and/or infrastructure-based products. The Product Manager, Beacon Products' focus includes the Beacon system, a Customer information system for the NYC Subway system. It provides Train Arrival information and targeted customer alert messages at countdown clocks on the "B" Division train line that consists of the A, B, C, D, E, F, G, J, L, M, N, Q, R W & Z lines. As trains move through the Subway tunnels, they move past virtual tripwires which are made from Bluetooth Beacons. The beacons track train movement and allows the system to predict and provide train arrival information in real time to customers on the train platforms and mobile apps. The Data is collected in the subways by the iTrack home grown system which process the information and packages it up to send it to a Drupal CMS. The Drupal application processes all the arrival information and messages intended for a specific station and routes it out to the signs at that station via a large Internet of things (IoT) data distribution hub. There are close to 2000 signs throughout the NYC Subway system which get their real time subway arrival and messaging information via the Beacon system. Alert messages can be sent via the Beacon system from the Rail Control Center to any or all of the signs connected to the system. T he application uses AWS IOT, Acquia Content Delivery Platform, Azure Cloud, Piper Network platform and NYCT Transit Wireless. The Product Manager will lead the assigned staff in agile transformation and the digital agenda and develop roadmaps for the Beacon System and/or infrastructure products assigned. This position will manage a team of technical staff responsible for defining the launch of new products and services, developing technical roadmaps for existing products and delivering product features in an agile environment. The Product Manager is responsible for management, staffing and supervision of the Beacon System products. Responsibilities Enterprise Product Planning- Investigate any anomalies on the train arrival information or content that goes on the signs
- Perform all Drupal security and module maintenance, each update requires a full regression test
- Monitor and troubleshoot reported sign issues
- Integrate feeds from other systems as needed
- Assist in investigating network and connectivity issues for all the signs in the field
- Maintain the Acquia platform and work with Acquia to maintain the site
- Rollout new code to update all 2000 signs and verify that they are all in good working condition
- Lead a team of multi-functional technical staff planning, building, and maintaining application and/or infrastructure products
- Lead others, as appropriate, and when necessary, that will consist of one or more agile coaches, data analytic researchers and other digital transformation personnel
- Provide leadership in development of inter-team communication and cohesiveness; sustain culture and supporting assigned staff during organizational growth/changes.
- Provide direction on evaluation, selection, implementation and maintenance of information systems for their assigned products, ensuring appropriate investment in strategic and operational systems.
- Attract, develop, coach and retain high-performance team members, empowering them to elevate their level of responsibility, span of control and performance in conjunction with the IT Workforce Planning & Workload Management office.
- Build staff expertise and competence to meet evolving demands within the Enterprise Product Management unit.
- Demonstrate consistent understanding of funding, communications and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the program goals.
- Collaborates with IT Business Management Services to identify procurement contracts to support program related activities.
- Assesses and makes recommendations on the improvement and re-engineering within the IT Department and work with the stakeholders at keeping the total cost of ownership down.
- Promote the use of employee self -service and mobile connectivity within products to reduce the reliance of paper.
- Automation of business process creating in-line forms and approvals, reducing the reliance on manual approvals that could be untimely.
- Coordinates and facilitates consultation with stakeholders to define business and systems requirements for new technology implementations, developing business case and cost justifications for such initiatives.
- Provides direction on evaluation, selection, implementation and maintenance of information systems, ensuring appropriate investment in strategic and operational systems.
- Advises MTA IT management, as information becomes available, in the changing trends and emerging technology and their potential use within the MTA.
- Directs the development of the analysis required to determine if Information Technology projects should follow a "Build" (develop with in-house staff) or "Buy" (cloud or packaged solution) methodology.
- Manages the development and implementation of new modules within assigned products.
- Advises on the selection, prioritization, development and implementation on products as they relate to the selection, acquisition, development, and installation of MTA IT applications and infrastructure.
- Participates in overall business planning bringing a current knowledge and future vision of technology and systems as related to the company's goals.
- Responsible for leading and reporting on various product progress and deliverables insuring that the IT needs of the MTA are met on time and within budget, including identifying weekly, monthly and annual performance targets to show progress on IT product work.
- Ensure continuous delivery of product services through oversight of service level agreements with end users and monitoring of product performance.
- Responsible for the recruitment, development, motivation, training and retention of a diverse and high performing multi-level IT team professionals, conforming to budgetary objectives and Human Resources policy and programs in conjunction with the IT Workforce Planning & Workload Management office.
- Develop business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for IT spending and initiatives keeping customizations to a minimum and total cost of ownership down.
- Knowledge of information, mobile, Voice, Cloud and Application Development technologies, and/or Infrastructure technologies (e.g. AWS IOT, Acquia Content Delivery Platform, Azure Cloud, Piper Network platform and NYCT Transit Wireless)
- Successful track record in design of software systems to meet the current and future needs of a complex transportation organization OR
- Successful track record in design and implementation of IT Infrastructure and related hardware and software technologies to meet the current and future needs of a complex transportation organization
- Verbal/written communications skills
- Financial/budgeting planning and management experience a plus
- Ability to fit in with the constant shifting needs and demands of the business Departments
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