Product Owner Private Cloud Platforms

The Product Owner Private Cloud Platform at ABN AMRO Clearing (AACB) performs a full cross grids role. Together with his/her team,he/she has a clear mandate to create/maintain/mature the Private Cloud platform on Openshift. As a product owner you are one of the pivots that brings devops capabilities of the Openshift platform to the blocks and ensure their adoption. You closely aligning with the platform and product grid to include Private Cloud implementation into the Quarterly Business Review (QBR). The product owner is also the hierarchical manager of the platform engineers within the block/team. The team consists of around 5 people focusing on developing and ensuring implementation of Private Cloud platform on Openshift. The team works in an agile/scrum way. You, the Product Owner, sets the priorities for the sprints in consultation with stakeholders and the team.

As a Product Owner, you translate AACB’s Platform strategy into specific goals. You have a vision that takes innovations in your domain into consideration. When achieving your goals, you strike the right balance between strategy, objectives, business processes, and the client. You motivate others and give direction to employees and coaches to help them achieve results. You are also able to weigh up interests properly, as you can form a bigger picture of the organisation. Your team has a positive culture and values that are supported and promoted by everyone.

AACB is the cornerstone of global financial markets. As a Clearing Bank, we offer our clients the ability to trade on 90+ financial markets, giving us a top three position globally. In this position, we secure and govern a safe, transparent and sustainable market. Our clients include professional traders, investment managers and corporates with whom we have long standing personal relationships. We understand them and strive to deliver the same high-quality service across the globe. All with the aim to reduce risk and make financial markets more efficient and reliable. Given the high demands of our clients and highly volatile market, the work in AACB gives you a chance to learn a lot in a short period. Working at AACB means thriving in an international, professional yet informal, fast-paced, IT-driven environment.

Results and Core Activities
• Be the Product Owner for the Private Cloud Platform
• Setting priorities of the backlog
• Manage and allocate backlog tasks to other members of the block
• Set policy, use, way of working and ensure methods of adoption around platform

Knowledge and Experience
• Experience in management (project & people) role
• Experience in the role of Product Owner
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Strong IT background
• Deep understanding of Infrastructure components
• Good understanding of Containerisation concepts
• Knowledge/Undertanding on Openshift is a plus

Communication – Key Stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal skills which are required to liaise with technical and business users across different regions
• Working with Enterprise Architecture to address design considerations
• Proactive communicator to foresee and address issues before they arise
• Proven ability to work well under pressure and to multiple deadlines, practical thinker.
• Flexible attitude to working hours, including travel / working different time zones and weekend working when applicable
• Strong written documentation skills
• Strong Management skills– experience of managing projects & people

• The possibility to work for a global organisation with hubs all over the world;
• The opportunity to be the best you can be, work flexible hours and lots of room to grow both personally and professionally
• The opportunity to pro-actively work on your vitality and fitness
• A supplementary benefit budget of 11%, which you can spend on additional fringe benefits
• A personal development budget of EUR 1.000 per year
• An annual public transportation pass
• A solid pension plan

The success of our organisation depends on the quality of our people and the ideas that they have. Truly surprising insights and innovative solutions for our clients result from an interplay of cultures, knowledge and experience. Diversity is therefore extremely important to our organisation. To ensure that everyone at ABN AMRO can develop their talents, we encourage an inclusive culture in which all colleagues feel engaged and appreciated.

External recruitment agencies need to have a signed agreement with ABN AMRO BANK N.V., executed by a Talent Acquisition Specialist, when submitting a resume to a vacancy. No unsolicited services or offers, please.