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UtrechtHybrid38 hours/week<3months
You will work as a Product Owner within a department undergoing a digital transformation. This role is currently being developed and will be formally embedded in an upcoming reorganization process. You will help a government agency improve its digital services.
What you will do.
- Balance business and technical interests to continuously deliver value to the customer.
- Clearly translate stakeholder expectations into a prioritized backlog.
- Enable teams to deliver with focus and ownership within a complex and dynamic environment.
- Manage the IT support for the Service Team during releases from product teams.
- In close consultation with the Product Owners of the product teams, determine which activities have priority for improving infrastructure and keeping applications up and running.
- Collaborate closely with many stakeholders to ensure that product teams are optimally served in improving the functionality of their applications.
Your main responsibilities include:
- Stakeholder management
- Prioritization & backlog management
- Team collaboration
- Performance, continuity, and quality monitoring
- Vision and roadmap
- Agile collaboration & scaling
Profile
- HBO or WO working and thinking level, preferably in Business Administration, Computer Science, Business Informatics, or a similar field.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience as a Product Owner, Service Owner, IT Service Manager, or in a comparable steering role within complex ICT environments.
- Demonstrable experience with Agile working and preferably with SAFe/Scaled Agile.
- Experience with teams working in both Ops and Dev.
Knowledge & skills.
- Extensive experience with stakeholder management in a complex and politically sensitive environment, navigating between operational, technical, organizational, and administrative interests.
- Demonstrable experience with prioritizing and managing a backlog in an environment where both development (Dev) and management and continuity (Ops) play an important role.
- Experience with making choices between different interests, weighing value, urgency, risk, continuity, technical necessity, and dependencies.
- Experience with creating effective collaboration, discussing tensions and different interests, and promoting ownership and shared responsibility.
- Insight and experience with release plans, architecture plans, and process models.
- Able to quickly understand technical and operational issues and translate them into concrete priorities and backlog items.
- Strong in assessing impact, risks, dependencies, and urgency and incorporating these into prioritization decisions.
- Able to bring together different interests and arrive at clear, well-founded choices.
- Excellent communication skills: you can switch between technical specialists, Product Owners, management, and other stakeholders.
- Organizationally sensitive and able to operate effectively in a complex and politically sensitive environment.
- Decisive and dares to say "no" when necessary to safeguard focus, quality, and continuity.
- Analytical and results-oriented, always keeping the bigger picture and service to the product teams in mind.
- Service-oriented, but understands that good service also means managing expectations and setting clear priorities.
Practical
- This vacancy is open to both internal and external candidates.
- A security screening is part of the selection procedure.
- A reference check and assessment may be part of the selection procedure.
- You must be from a country within the European Economic Area, or possess a combined permit for residence and work (GVVA).
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