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Our client is currently looking for a Senior Product Owner to help transition to hybrid/cloud solution with Data/platform as a service (DB, SQL, F5, Openshift is a must) through an Agile way of working. This professional will help the organization to continue to enter into the Digital Age linking the business and IT. Being responsible for the DB2 (Linux & IBM ISeries) MS SQL infrastructure (PaaS/DaaS), CRM-tooling, Business and End-user Web applications (SaaS), Monitoring, F5, application logging). The consultant will represents both stakeholders and be the voice of the customers in terms of their expectations, preferences, and aversions. The Product Owner is responsible for the product strategy, the product plan, and the prioritization of the activities of the product squads in order to achieve a stable run and efficient change.
Primary Tasks and responsibilities
Technical profile requirements
Non-Technical profile requirements
Methodology/Certification requirements
Language proficiencies
Primary Tasks and responsibilities
- Develop a thorough understanding of the business objectives and processes to make informed product prioritization and improvement recommendations.
- Build a strong relationship and communicate regularly with the product stakeholders and customers to shape the product strategy and to identify and prioritize needs.
- Leading the product strategy, planning and lifecycle management activities. Monitor business, market, and technology trends to keep product strategy up-to-date and proactively propose new solutions.
- Create product roadmaps and release plans that meet customer needs and achieve business objectives. Translating business needs into concrete product and technical needs.
- Translate the product needs into concrete Product backlogs for the product squads, possibly supported by 'Client Value - Integration' for multi-product needs or for non-standard requests.
- Monitor product performance on a regular basis and proactively start activities to improve the products. Determine internal and external resources and skills needed for the product team to deliver the product roadmap, in consultation with the Domain Manager.
- Guiding the product engineering team in scoping, planning and delivering work, applying established delivery methodologies (e.g. Agile methods) and best practices (e.g. reusability) and defining technical standards.
- Proactively identify and resolve obstacles to achieving business objectives for the product, including standardization, technical and resourcing challenges. Ensure alignment and compliance with financial, business and IT standards (e.g. Architecture, Compliance, Security).
- Ensure on a permanent basis that the various stakeholders are aligned with the product that is offered. Make arbitration decisions regarding the functionality that will be provided.
- Manage investment decisions and finances for the product, with a return-on-investment approach to increase value while minimizing product costs.
- Participate in the squad ceremonies to guide them in prioritizing and clarifying customer needs.
Technical profile requirements
- +5 years’ experience in a Product Owner role in the IT Sector (preferably in networking), or similar through experience
- Experience in determining and overseeing infrastructure products, related to DB2, MS SQL, F5, CRM Tooling and Web based end-user applications, ACE, Dynatrace, SCOM and ELK
- Experience in estimating resource requirements for these platforms
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, including experience using data to inform decision-making and solve infrastructure engineering problems.
- Strong experience in understanding the needs of business partners and customers.
- Proven success in defining and building products. Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information orally and in writing to various stakeholders in a concise manner.
- Experience with Jira and Confluence
- Very good knowledge of Agile methods, preferably as Product Owner or Scrum Master (ex: Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, SAFe)
Non-Technical profile requirements
- Skills for building relationships and collaboration between diverse and matrix-bound stakeholders and customers.
- Ability to surface, prioritize, and balance multiple stakeholder priorities.
- Strong project management skills to manage multiple projects and deadlines at the same time.
- Knowledge of the Agile way of working (POs, Squads, Ceremonies, Agile Mindset, ...)
- Expertise in strategic thinking and strong business acumen.
- People management, entrepreneurship, analytical mindset, team player, ..
Methodology/Certification requirements
- Master Degree in Computer Science OR equivalent through experience.
- Very good coaching & training skills
Language proficiencies
- Fluent in Dutch is mandatory
- Professional working knowledge of French
- Professional working knowledge in English