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About Xebia With over 20 years of experience, our global network of passionate technologists and pioneering craftsmen deliver cutting-edge technology and game-changing consulting to companies on the brink of transformation. Since 2001, we have grown from a Java company into a full-service digital consulting company with 4500+ professionals working on a worldwide ambition. We are organized in complementary chapters – teams with a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience within a particular field, such as Agile, DevOps, Data and AI, Cloud, Software Technology, Functional Programming, Low Code, and Microsoft. We help the world’s top 250 companies and category leaders overcome digital challenges, embrace innovation, adopt new technology, and implement new business models. In addition to high-quality consulting, we also provide offshoring and nearshoring services. For more details please visit  www.xebia.com Location: Remote, UK/CAN/Central Europe/Poland preferred Time Zone Availability: Must be available for UK/US East Coast business hours Experience: 8+ Years of Technical Program / Product Management Experience About the Role We are seeking a Scaled Human Biology Senior Technical Program Manager (STPM) to join our life sciences R&D product team supporting a leading pharmaceutical company's digital transformation initiatives. This role requires deep technical expertise combined with strategic thinking to manage a complex human biological data platform serving researchers, cell biologists, computational biologists, and data scientists. As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will own large strategic programs or manage portfolios of applications, driving continuous discovery, innovation, and business value delivery across multiple technical and scientific workstreams. You will operate within a hybrid delivery model aligned to the client's Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC), combining waterfall-style governance with agile execution. This is a partnership-driven role requiring close collaboration with client Program Managers, engineering teams, scientific stakeholders, and multi-vendor partners to deliver R&D acceleration—not just sustainment. What You'll Do Strategic Program & Backlog Leadership Own product backlog, prioritization, and planning across multiple primary workstreams, including a high-scale human biological data repository, analytical pipelines, and a search/visualization UI. Drive continuous discovery and innovation focused on new platform capabilities, data-driven discoveries, and R&D acceleration. Lead products through all four PDLC governance checkpoints: Strategy Alignment → Requirements Validation → Architecture/Design Review → Launch. Manage dependencies across a large, highly collaborative multi-team program (data engineering, platform engineering, UI/UX, AI/ML, and scientific knowledge engineering). Conduct continuous validation of business value through platform performance metrics, user feedback, and scientific experimentation. Requirements, Data Architecture & Delivery Translate complex, ambiguous scientific requirements from cell biologists, computational biologists, and data scientists into well-defined user stories, acceptance criteria, and robust Product Development Plans (PDPs). Drive the foundational definition of data models, metadata standards, and FAIR data compliance requirements in close collaboration with scientific knowledge engineering teams. Manage backlog prioritization and ensure cross-functional alignment using Jira, Confluence, and Jira Product Discovery. Maintain data governance, security, and compliance requirements around human biological data throughout the entire product lifecycle. Partner with Project Managers on scope trade-offs, resource allocation, and cross-team dependency management. Drive User Acceptance Testing (UAT), release decisions, and launch readiness across techni