Product Owner | Banking

We have partnered with one of the leading banks in the Netherlands and they are currently looking for a technically-savvy Product Owner.

Location

Leeuwarden

Length

2 years

The squad is located in Leeuwarden, the Dutch stakeholders are located in Amsterdam. The product owner that we are looking for will need to be physically in Leeuwarden and Amsterdam a few days a week. Because of the global scope, traveling to other locations can be part of the assignment. Successful remote collaboration skills are needed.

You will:
Drive your squad as the Product Owner by providing the purpose, context, priorities, and direction to the team.
Partner with the Product Area Lead and peers (representatives of other squads) to create and maintain a product backlog that aligns with the overall product area roadmap to maximize the business value or ROI.
Develop requirements (written and diagrams as appropriate) throughout the product development in the form of Epics, Features and Stories. Facilitate refinement sessions to clarify and size requirements.
Facilitate the team’s delivery by coordinating sprint activities like planning sessions, retrospectives, and protecting the team and sprint against disruptions and impediments.
Create and lead the planning of product releases, including coordination with other interdependent teams and communication with stakeholders to set the expectation for delivery of new features. Play an active role in identifying, mitigating, and communicating impediments impacting successful completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
Build up and share knowledge of the domain, the users, and the roadmap for the product.

Furthermore, you have:

• 5 year(s) experience working as a Product Owner in a technology environment, preferably in a large matrix organization

• Solid Agile experience

• Familiarity with the following concepts: ‘Kafka’, ‘data lake’, ‘master data management’, ‘notifications’

• Ability to coach the team in the business domain

• Proven ability to define a set of requirements that pinpoint business challenges and identify technical and business changes required to address them

• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely across technology and business teams

• Experience supporting/rolling out software. Proactively validate with the users the added value and identify new opportunities, features and improvements

• Willing to travel between Leeuwarden and Amsterdam