Product Owner

Bedrijfsomschrijving

A large bank

Product Owner Platform

As Product Owner Platform within the Area of Transaction Monitoring you can have societal impact by building the best platform to enable analytics models. These models are processing Rabobank transactions of 8+ million customers to detect Financial Crime. You will lead a multi-disciplinary squad of Data-, PowerBI-, and Test Automation-Engineers and an Analytics Translator.

You and your job

Imagine yourself in in the middle of a rapidly changing environment and model landscape in the Area of Transaction Monitoring (TM) Detection, Tribe Financial Economic Crime (FEC) Tech. This Area is responsible for protecting the bank and our customers worldwide from the negative effects of financial crime. As a Product Owner, together with your squad, you have a profound impact on the TM area by being responsible for maintaining and improving the platform in our TM model ecosystem. In practice this means that you have a big responsibility in ensuring that our platform is robust and future proof by improving the data quality and data control framework. The squad is technically driven while enabling the translation of functional requirements to the platform. It consists of extremely capable, enthusiastic, and ambitious professionals and there is a positive, cooperative atmosphere. It is important you feel comfortable in a transparent and open team environment where the social aspect is important.

Practical Examples

As Product Owner Platform you will:

• Fulfil the role of actively involved fore(wo)man for one or multiple squads, with mostly a focus on engineering (very limited non-technical stakeholders)

• Constantly switch between the technical details of the platform and the overarching implications on the entire model

• Provide transparent, timely and accurate feedback/updates on planning, progress and dependencies. Work with all stakeholders (which are mainly the other 10+ squads working on the model) to pre-agree the content of the Quarterly Business Review (QBR)

• Coach your squad on the day-to-day business, while having a clear view on future plans in relation to the platform (and model) vision

Facts & Figures

• 36 hours per week

• 8+ squad members in your squad

• 2 other squads maintaining valuable parts of our platform, to closely align with

Top 3 responsibilities

• Maintain and improve the platform in our TM model ecosystem (tech stack contains PySpark, DataBricks, Azure DevOps)

• Set priorities for your squad, ensure your squad commits to a realistic quarterly planning, and manage risks in a timely manner

• Together with other POs, Product Manager, Tech Leads and Area Lead, outline a vision for the platform in the rapidly expanding TM model landscape

• Confident in having detailed content discussions with team members

• Strong communication skills; concise and top-down communication is highly appreciated

• Ability to quickly understand both technical details and business perspective

• Pro-active, independent and have a can-do mentality to make the difference in fighting financial crime

You and your talent

• Academic degree in a technical field (e.g., computer science, mathematics, econometrics or similar)

• 5+ years of experience as Product Owner/Project Manager or similar role in the field of IT

• Professional experience in leading and developing IT squads

Fixed term contract of 1 year, possible extension