Product Owner

We are looking for a candidate for the position of Product Owner for the EMEA region. The ideal person for this position will have 7+ years of experience working in large and complex IT environments. He / she will possess a firm grasp on IT services in general and be considered senior in one or more of the following areas: storage (NAS / SAN), virtualization / containers (VMWare / Openshift), identity and access management (LDAP), operating systems (Linux), and data/system security.

The R&D IT design environment is a complex landscape of EDA Applications supported by High Performance Compute & Storage environments consolidated into five regional datacenters. Over 7,000 hardware IC designers spread across 40+ locations around the world use this state-of-the-art design environment. This R&D environment consists of over 75,000+ cores and 30+ PBytes of data, serving over 2,000 versions of EDA/CAD applications.

Your team:

You will be working in the Infrastructure Program as part of the R&D IT organization. This program is responsible for building and maintaining infrastructure services (LDAP, storage, Linux operating system, VMware, data protection and backup, server/service monitoring, etc). The R&D IT organization has adopted the Agile way-of-working and our teams are self-organizing entities using a DevOps methodology for their day-to-day work (SAFe – Scaled Agile Framework). The Product Owner for the EMEA region will be supporting, together with a dedicated scrum masters, two teams of ~8 persons each. He / she reports to the Product Manager of the Infrastructure Program.

Responsibility & Accountability:

• Engaging with stakeholders (in the EMEA region) and act as primary liaison for the team

• Create product roadmap and stories / features for Team

• Manage the product backlog

• Coordinating backlog priorities with other Product Owners and Product Manager

• Sprint planning and PI planning, including defining the sprint goal and PI objectives

• Managing unplanned work for (regional) team

• Creating and explaining backlog items to the team (the “What”) and refining them

• Evaluating product progress and reporting out to Product Manager

We are looking for a candidate reflecting the following profile:

• Ambitious and outgoing personality who enjoys a fast-paced technology environment

• Leadership skills with experience in motivating teams

• Interpersonal skills and developing relationships with team members and customers

• Ability to organize workloads

• Good communication skills

• Having negotiation skills and being decisive

• In-depth knowledge of agile process and principles

• Strong motivation to apply and promote End-to-End thinking

• Working experience in environments where users are savvy in (Information) Technology

• 7+ years of IT experience in a multi-national environment

• Possess a fundamental understanding of core Infrastructure services

• Prior Experience supporting core Infrastructure services (Operating systems, DNS, Virtualization, VMWare, Storage, Backup/Recovery, Data Security, Data Replication & monitoring, Hyperconverged stacks)

• Business English is a must

• Degree in Computer Science, Information technology, Industrial Engineering or similar is a pre

CV's please in English.
For more information please contact Mark Dalmeijer.