Data Transport Product Manager

Bank of America•Plano, TX

3d•Onsite

About The Position

This job is responsible for maximizing the value for one or more products. Key responsibilities include working with stakeholders to understand their needs, and with product owners or specialists to ensure they are aligning priorities. Job expectations include ensuring delivery of products that meet client expectations, including features, security, availability, resiliency, timelines and costs. The Data Transport Product Manager serves as the end‑to‑end owner of the Data Transport product, with accountability across vision, strategy, roadmap, financial management, risk posture, and lifecycle execution. This role requires deep domain expertise in data communications, strong executive presence, and the ability to influence engineering, architecture, finance, risk, and vendor partners to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Requirements

Proven experience operating in an Agile delivery environment, with hands‑on familiarity with tools such as Jira, Kanban, Confluence, and Horizon.
Strong communication skills with the ability to distill complex technical and financial concepts into clear, compelling narratives tailored to diverse audiences.
Demonstrated executive presence, including the ability to confidently present to senior leaders and articulate decisions grounded in data, client impact, and strategic alignment.
Experience collaborating across planning, development, delivery, and implementation teams to define product requirements and execution plans.
Strong program and stakeholder management skills, capable of leading complex, multi‑disciplinary initiatives.
Self‑directed and highly motivated, with the ability to manage multiple large initiatives concurrently.
Proven ability to influence without formal authority, negotiate priorities, manage trade‑offs, and resolve conflicts across business, architecture, and engineering teams.
Experience working effectively within geographically dispersed, global teams.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications, Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical discipline.
Strong familiarity of finance and accounting concepts related to budgeting, cost management, and vendor management and economics.
Experience in network and security architecture within a large, complex enterprise environment.
5+ years of experience as a networking subject‑matter expert.
Working knowledge of networking technologies and protocols, including: High capacity WAN technology and equipment, Global carrier architectures, Undersea cable routes, Cloud Services, Telecommunications Expense Management (TEM), OSPF, IS‑IS, BGP, IP Multicast, VXLAN, MACsec

Responsibilities

Generates the vision and roadmap for the program based on customer requirements, industry trends, regulations, and the strategic direction for the business or technology domain
Communicates the program vision and roadmap to stakeholders, product owners and the teams
Oversees the budget(s) for one or more products by working closely with finance partners on both personnel and non-personnel expenses
Provides input into defining business capabilities and aligning them to products or creating new products to support them
Ensures product availability by partnering closely with demand and capacity teammates
Develop business cases for new products and additional features for existing products
Partners with the product owners and the teams to ensure that optimum value is obtained through technology and subject-matter expertise and understanding of the business and industry trends
Own and define the vision, strategy, and multi‑year roadmap for the multi-hundred-million-dollar Data Transport product, informed by customer needs, industry trends, regulatory requirements, and enterprise technology strategy.
Ensure alignment of the Data Transport roadmap with broader Network Services and portfolio objectives.
Articulate product capabilities, priorities, and trade‑offs clearly to executive leadership and key stakeholders.
Partner closely with architecture and engineering teams to prioritize features, capabilities, and delivery milestones, ensuring outcomes are aligned with business value and operational resilience.
Participate and act as major stake holder in technical product and vendor selections as required, including RFx processes, evaluations, and recommendations.
Act as the primary product representative to internal and external stakeholders, including Global Information Security, Finance, Audit/Risk, Lines of Business, CIO organizations, and vendor partners.
Own and govern an annual budget of several‑hundred‑million‑dollars, with full accountability for planning, forecasting, and ongoing financial performance of the Data Transport product.
Partner closely with Senior Technology Executives, Finance, and Economics teams to manage spend throughout the delivery lifecycle, drive cost transparency, and ensure investment decisions align to strategic priorities.
Continuously optimize the global data carrier cost base, maximizing the Bank’s commercial leverage to deliver market‑leading pricing, contractual terms, and service levels.
Continuously monitor and manage product health through inventory, performance, usage, cost, risk, and quality metrics (e.g., CAPM, error rates, utilization).
Make informed product lifecycle decisions, including investment, optimization, modernization, and retirement recommendations.
Maintain accountability for risk, resiliency, and vulnerability management across the Data Transport product lifecycle, ensuring compliance with internal policies and regulatory expectations.