Senior Product Owner

Within Mutual-IT the Agile way of working is implemented where the team Identity and Access Management is currently looking for a Senior Product Owner who will help the organization to continue to enter into the Digital Age linking the business and IT.

Primary Tasks and responsibilities:

• The candidate will make sure the global customer file is managed through understanding its customer’s needs.
• Understand the business domain or the feature/requirement in question, have good understanding from an end-user point of view and assure implementation and follow-up respectively.
• Analyse and translate the end user’s needs transmitting it tthe IAM team in necessary terms tassure successful solution delivery.
• Quality assurance making sure the implementation of the functionalities is tested and running by design according tthe end customer needs.
• Follow-up on delivery, implementation and other functionalities through Product Pack Log Management.
• Create and maintain the Product Backlog
• Prioritize features in the Backlog before each Sprint
• Clarify the high level scope and the technical synergies between the different sub-projects
• Assist the Team Manager defining priorities of the business’ needs
• Focus on the resources and capabilities of the team(s), the projects or innovations that bring the most added value to the organization and its stakeholders.
• Set up and conduct a Road Map of delivery
• Manage risks and issues related to delivery
• Report on the budget
• Make sure to keep full control of the above-mentioned responsibilities at all time

Secondary Tasks and responsibilities:

• Deploy and develop an active and consistent communication with different stakeholders.
• Conflict management (tech and non-tech).
• Facilitate the operational functionality of the teams/squads and stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with standards and best practices for all requests
• Be proactive in proposing technical solutions and innovations
• Inform the client and the team manager of progress, problems, risks encountered, etc.
• Organize Sprint Review Meetings
• Define the roles and responsibilities of the teams.
• Follow-up on possible change and deliverables related feedback from the customer on continuous basis.
• Team coaching/motivation.

Technical profile requirements:

• +5 years’ experience in a Product Owner role in the IT Sector (ideally in IT Security)
• Expert knowledge of complex Systems Integration.
• Very good knowledge of one or more of the following concepts or technologies (Identity and Access Management, Authentication, authorization, SSO, PKI, PAM, human and non-human identities)
• Very good knowledge of Agile methods, preferably as Product Owner or Scrum Master (ex: Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, SAFe)

Non-Technical profile requirements:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Must be able to work on multiple simultaneous tasks with limited supervision
• Quick learner, motivated self-starter
• Result oriented & customer centered
• Structured / Organized
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and team collaboration skills
• High accountability and team spirit values

Methodology/Certification requirements:

• Master Degree in Computer Science OR equivalent through experience.
• Very good coaching & training skills

Language proficiencies:

• FR and/or Dutch
• ENG

Skills & Requirements:

• Business Analysis
• Cyber Security (ex: use of ciphers, cryptography, ...)
• Development Support Tools (e.g. JIRA, SVN, ...)
• Enterprise Integration Pattern
• Information Security Standards (ISO 2700x)
• IT Security Risk Analysis & Evaluation
• MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Negotiation skills, Stakeholder Management, Leadership
• Quality Assurance
• REST API's