Product Portfolio Lead #3615816 at Dynamic Search Solutions, England, £650 per day

Product Portfolio Lead – Network (Infrastructure Platform)

📍 Europe (Hybrid – occasional travel to Germany)

💰 £650 per day (Outside IR35)

📅 6-Month Contract (high likelihood of extension)

The Role

We are working with a leading professional services organisation supporting a major European client to hire an experienced Product Portfolio Lead – Network.

This role sits within a large-scale cloud-native platform programme, focused on delivering enterprise network services across a hybrid cloud environment.

You will own the network product portfolio, ensuring alignment between strategy, delivery, and operational stability across critical infrastructure services.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage the Network Product Portfolio, covering services such as DNS, DHCP, IPAM, connectivity, and virtual network environments
• Define and maintain product roadmaps, lifecycle strategies, and release plans aligned with platform and infrastructure objectives
• Act as the bridge between business stakeholders, architecture, engineering, and operations teams
• Track delivery progress, dependencies, risks, and blockers across multiple teams
• Ensure release readiness, including documentation, acceptance criteria, and operational handover
• Drive Day 2 operational readiness and service stability across all network products
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives across automation, reliability, and performance
• Provide clear portfolio governance, reporting, and KPI tracking to stakeholders

Experience Required

• Proven experience as a Product Portfolio Lead, Product Manager, or Senior Product Owner within large-scale enterprise environments
• Strong track record managing network-focused infrastructure products/services across their full lifecycle
• Deep understanding of network technologies, including:
• DNS, DHCP, IPAM
• WAN and enterprise connectivity
• Virtual networks (e.g. VPCs / VNets)
• Experience working within cloud or hybrid cloud platforms
• Strong experience managing product roadmaps, backlogs, and release planning
• Ability to work across cross-functional teams (architecture, engineering, operations, business stakeholders)
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

Desirable Experience

• Experience working in cloud-native platform environments
• Familiarity with container platforms (e.g. Kubernetes)
• Strong understanding of infrastructure operations and service lifecycle management
• Experience within large, matrixed organisations or transformation programmes

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