Product Owner Managed Standardized Service Virtual Machine (MSS VM)

• Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 5,876 and EUR 8,395 (scale 10).
• 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.

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As part of the Engineering Journey, you’ll help shape how 8,000+ engineers design, build, and collaborate every day. We’re building a scalable, consistent, and developer friendly platform, Nexa, and an ecosystem around it. If you enjoy working in a complex engineering landscape, influencing how thousands of developers work, and owning a product that truly matters, this is a great opportunity to make an impact.

At Rabobank we want to deliver the best possible services for our DevOps engineers, and you as Product Owner (PO) will be playing a central role in providing them! Tech4Engineering's mission is to minimize the cognitive load of our engineers throughout the bank. You contribute to that mission by owning the Managed Standardized Service Virtual Machine (MSS VM).

The MSS Virtual Machine is delivered by the sub area Consumer Services within the Area Engineering Services. Besides VMs, this sub area also delivers Container Platforms, Databases, FinOps Services and various other products across Rabobank’s three landing zones (Azure, AWS and on-premises). Of course, availability and continuity of the VM service are important, but it does not stop there: increased focus on security and compliancy by design, automation and self-service is also critical. Implementing these concepts allows services in our portfolio to be combined into (bigger) MSSs to make the lives of our consumers even easier.

As Product Owner for the MSS VM, you define and communicate the product vision, translate customer and business needs into a clear, prioritized Product Backlog, and ensure the team is always working on the most valuable items. You collaborate closely with stakeholders and make informed decisions to maximize product value. You also validate outcomes, gather feedback via reviews/user groups, and continuously refine the backlog to keep the product aligned with strategic goals.

• Enable our consumers to migrate all non-standardized VMs towards the standard. You provide insights and report on the progress.
• Strengthen and evolve the existing MSS by identifying and proposing improvements that simplify and enhance the engineer experience.
• Ensure a well‑established provider–consumer model with clear agreements on ownership, responsibilities, and support across areas and tribes.
• Lead the VM user group with a structured agenda, gather feedback from consumers, and use these insights to continuously inspect, adapt, and improve the MSS.

At Rabobank, we believe in the power of diversity. Different perspectives make us stronger, more innovative, and better equipped to serve our customers. That’s why we’re excited to discover what you will bring to our Engineering Services team.

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 Engineering Journey.

 "You really get the space here to drive product innovation that impacts thousands of engineers daily, and you can feel the transformation you're creating," Product Manager.

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.

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

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, or equivalent experience
• Agile Product Owner certification (e.g., CSPO, PSPO)
• Proven experience as a Product Owner in complex, multi‑team environments
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder‑management skills
• Ability to define and drive a clear product vision using data‑driven decision‑making
• Solid understanding of both technical architecture and business strategy
• Skilled in prioritization, backlog management, and delivering measurable outcomes
• Collaborative mindset with experience working across engineering, design, and business teams
• Commitment to continuous improvement and fostering team empowerment

To ensure that we assess all candidates equally for suitability for this position, we do not require a mandatory cover letter. Instead, we ask all candidates the same three questions to see how your profile matches the role. Please pay sufficient attention to answering these questions and explaining your answers. together with your CV, these responses form the basis for our evaluation in this round. Submitting both a CV and answers to the three questions is the minimum requirement to be considered in the selection process. A cover letter is not mandatory but may be submitted optionally.

You may draw on your work experience, volunteer work, education, private life, and so on. Use a maximum of 200 words per question and provide no more than two examples. Below are the questions:

• How would you describe your recent experience working with a consumer – provider model in a large-scale environment, and what impact did you achieve?
• How do you determine priorities when balancing new consumer wishes, continuity bugs, Life Cycle Management, components, documentation, tooling, and quality aspects such as accessibility and consistency?
• How do you bring Consumers, IT or Application Architects and Tech (Engineering of your platform) into alignment and how do you measure the impact of your approach?

Please submit these answers AND your motivational letter in the application section titled 'Add your cover letter (optional)' on the website portal.

You can apply with your CV AND motivation letter for the Solution Architect Virtual Machines platform vacancy at Rabobank.

• Questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Ashley Lumbantobing, IT Recruiter via ashley.lumbantobing@rabobank.nl
• If you are invited for an interview, Bo, our virtual assistant, will contact you via SMS and email to schedule it.
• Answers to frequently asked questions can be found at Rabobank rabobank.jobs/en/faq
• A reliability check is part of the procedure.
• We respect your privacy.

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.

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