Junior Product Owner Application Hosting

Rabobank; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 46,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Thirteenth month

Holiday allowance 8%

Employee Benefit Budget 10%

Development budget €1,400

Job summary

Rabobank is seeking a Junior Product Owner for Application Hosting to translate business and technical requirements into backlog items, support platform improvements, and shape the platform's future. You’ll collaborate with platform engineers, architects, operations teams, application owners, and business stakeholders to keep services reliable while enabling future transformation initiatives.

The squad focuses on establishing a solid foundation through governance, documentation, lifecycle

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Scrum, S/S, Agile and Agile ways of working.
• Basic understanding of application hosting.
• Understanding of DevOps principles and CI/CD concepts and Product Ownership.
• Bachelor's degree (HBO) in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business IT, or a related field.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Good command of English, both written and spoken.
• PSPO I or similar certification.
• Experience with Azure DevOps.
• Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving.

Responsibilities

• Help manage and prioritize the team backlog.
• Gather requirements from stakeholders and users.
• Write user stories and support the engineering team.
• Track progress of work and support Agile ceremonies and sprints.
• Communicate updates, priorities, and progress to stakeholders.
• Support continuous improvements to the Application Hosting platform.
• Help identify, analyze, and resolve issues affecting the service.
• Work closely with engineers, architects, operations teams, and business representatives.
• Support roadmap planning and product lifecycle activities.
• Monitor customer feedback and help translate insights into improvements.

Skills

Scrum knowledge

Agile practices

Stakeholder management

Planning & organization

Communication

Analytical thinking

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Business IT (HBO)

PSPO I certification

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Junior Product Owner Application Hosting

• Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 4,105 and EUR 5,862 (scale 08)for a 36-hour work week.


• Extras: a thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, and a 10% Employee Benefit Budget.


• Development budget: EUR 1,400 development budget per year for your growth and development.


• Hybrid working: a balance between home and office work (possible for most roles).


• Pension: decide for yourself the amount of your personal contribution.

These platforms host business-critical applications that support daily operations across the organization. Internal business teams and application owners depend on these services to ensure their applications remain secure, stable, compliant, and available

You & your role

As a Junior Product Owner, you help translate business and technical requirements into actionable backlog items, support platform improvements, and contribute to shaping the future of the Application Hosting service. You work closely with platform engineers, architects, operations teams, application owners, and business stakeholders to ensure that current services remain reliable while preparing for future transformation initiatives.

The current focus of the Squad is to first establish a solid and reliable foundation by improving administrative governance, documentation, platform ownership, lifecycle management, and application inventory. Creating transparency and control across the hosted application landscape is a key priority before defining the long-term strategy.

Once the environment is fully understood and managed, the next step is to develop a future roadmap for the platform. This roadmap will prepare the organization for platform modernization and strategic decisions regarding application migration, consolidation, and decommissioning. The objective is to create a more standardized and cost-effective hosting landscape while maintaining service continuity for existing customers.

Examples for practices

• Supports the prioritization of activities that improve platform stability, compliance, and operational excellence.


• Contributes to the development of a strategic roadmap for migration, modernization, and decommissioning initiatives.


• Understands the Application Hosting landscape, including WebSphere Application Server (WAS), JBoss EAP, and Tomcat.


• Builds strong relationships with application owners, engineers, architects, and business stakeholders.


• Continuously develops Product Ownership, Agile, and technical platform knowledge.

Facts & figures

• Today, Application Hosting provides and supports the middleware platforms IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS), Red Hat JBoss EAP, and Apache Tomcat.


• 9.5 million customers worldwide

Top responsibilities

• Help manage and prioritize the team backlog.


• Gather requirements from stakeholders and users.


• Write user stories and support the engineering team.


• Track progress of work and support Agile ceremonies and sprints.


• Communicate updates, priorities, and progress to stakeholders.


• Support continuous improvements to the Application Hosting platform.


• Help identify, analyze, and resolve issues affecting the service.


• Work closely with engineers, architects, operations teams, and business representatives.


• Support roadmap planning and product lifecycle activities.


• Monitor customer feedback and help translate insights into improvements.

As a Junior Product Owner Application Hosting, you support the development, stability, and continuous improvement of the Application Hosting platform for Squad Hestia.

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of differences. It is precisely by combining people's differences that we become an even better bank. We are curious about what you add to our team of Squad Hestia.

“This is an Area where innovation, teamwork, Fun and continuous improvement come together. Every day brings new opportunities to learn, make an impact, and help shape the future of our services.”
– Remco Deijs, Product Owner

Work on yourself and the world around you at the same time

For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That’s why we want to invest in you and work together for a better world. We summarise this in one sentence: ‘At Rabobank, you work on yourself and the world around you at the same time. You’ll see this reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid working environment, and a healthy balance between work and home. You can work on banking services for our private and business customers, as well as societal issues such as food and energy transitions.

Why everyone is welcome at Rabobank

At Rabobank, we believe we become stronger through people who complement each other. By embracing our differences, we bring out the best in one another. We seek diversity in areas such as knowledge, skills, and experience, but also in gender, background, and culture. Across every department, we strive for variety and the freedom to be yourself – whoever you are. That’s what diversity and inclusion at Rabobank is all about

• Knowledge of Scrum, S@S, Agile and Agile ways of working.


• Basic understanding of application hosting.


• Understanding of DevOps principles and CI/CD concepts and Product Ownership.


• Bachelor's degree (HBO) in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business IT, or a related field.


• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.


• Good command of English, both written and spoken.


• PSPO I or similar certification.


• Experience with Azure DevOps.


• Communication and Stakeholder Management


• Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving


• Teamwork and Collaboration


• Planning and Organization


• Customer Focus


• Ownership and Accountability


• Learning Mindset, Adaptability and Continuous Improvement Mindset

To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to consider candidates requiring relocation from another country.