Product Owner Google Cloud Platform

At Rabobank, we strive to deliver the best services for our IT engineers, and as Product Owner Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you can play a central role in providing them! You will join the Area Engineering Platforms, which provides global infrastructure for the bank as compliant, easy-to-use, self-service solutions. We focus on four strategic pillars: providing stable and secure infrastructure, enhancing the ease of use of our services while maturing them, enabling engineers within the bank to use the best fitting infrastructure, and integrating our insights and services in Nexa.

* Nexa is Rabobank's centralized platform for everything needed to deliver secure, standardized, and innovative, high-quality solutions. Nexa simplifies the entire DevOps journey and accelerates IT delivery.

Your Product as PO

GCP usage is contained, as per Rabobank's Architectural Standards, considering other public cloud providers to be the standard landing zones for IaaS and PaaS requirements. However, GCP is intended for services that specifically support Google SaaS and cannot be hosted elsewhere. Together with the India-based offshore squad, you will be managing two products:

• Google Cloud Platform: Delivering managed platform services (PaaS/FaaS) designed to meet the unique requirements of supporting Google SaaS and a range of Google platforms, including Google Maps APIs, Android APIs, and Cloud Messaging Services for Firebase, among others. These services are provided to IT squads in The Netherlands, South America, Australia/New Zealand, as well as the HR and Marketing domains. The aim is to abstract away the platform (e.g., availability, resilience), security (e.g., controls, policies), and business layers (e.g., IAM integration, security monitoring) for internal Rabobank consumers, allowing them to focus on their application-layer level.
• Google Cloud Identity: Managing and providing unified Identity and Access enablement for Google Services, integrated with Microsoft Entra ID.

This role is not expected to be full-time, creating the opportunity for you to job-craft and add value beyond GCP using your strengths and expertise. Examples include organizing and ideating content for area stakeholder reviews, involvement in cross-area and/or tribe topics, input collection on user needs, or creating content on our area’s value outcomes.

We offer flexibility to combine home and other interests with working at Rabobank, allowing you to work between 28 and 36 hours a week, divided over 4 to 5 days.

You

• Create value with your colleagues for your colleagues rather than just delivering features
• Sparks fly from your energy, radiating your ambition and ‘let’s do it’ mindset
• Enjoy user interaction, using collaboration skills to co-create
• Naturally mingle to listen to our consumers, while addressing the change needed
• Manoeuvre in a complex stakeholder field, communicating naturally across different organizational layers, using your storytelling and (convincing) presenting skills
• Embrace cultural differences by working with our offshore DevOps engineers in India

Top responsibilities

• Set priorities based on the value for your consumers and measure accordingly
• Be a GCP advocate; voice the benefits of certain SaaS solutions to become a bank standard and say no when necessary
• Own, communicate, and evolve the product vision and roadmap, including the future perspective on SaaS solutions and delivery of Managed Standardized Services (MSS)
• Keep the bank running in a safe and secure way
• Align with Architecture to create the best GCP solutions
• Ensure consumers and relevant stakeholders have insights into their usage of GCP
• As a Product Owner, be part of the leadership of the area

Together we achieve more than alone

Our Area currently has 8 other Product Owners, 4 Tech Leads, 7 Solution Architects, 8 Scrum Masters, and over 120 developers. We facilitate our engineers to increase their efficiency and happiness in working towards their goals.

Work on yourself & 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. 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 good balance between your work and home life. You can work on banking matters for our private and business customers, but also on social issues such as food and energy transitions.

You and your talent

Consumer focus, creativity, value-driven mindset, impact, storytelling, analytical skills, excellent communication skills, and problem-solving are essential for this role. Furthermore, you recognize yourself in the following:

• Academic working and thinking level
• 3+ years of experience creating value in a Product Owner role
• Focus on service adoption and success (outcomes), rather than technical deliverables (outputs); experience with OKR goals is a plus
• Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) certification
• Affinity and experience with data-driven working, Agile, technology, and innovation
• Fluent in English (verbal and written) and able to tailor communication to diverse audiences; Dutch proficiency is a plus

Preferably, you also have:

• Strong understanding of Google Cloud Platform services
• Experience in banking or a highly regulated industry
• Experience working with an offshore squad
• A marketing communication background and/or affinity
• Experience with journey mapping and/or other technologies aimed at optimizing user experience is a plus

This is what we offer you

• Gross monthly salary between €4,516 and €6,449 (scale 09)
• Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance
• 10% Employee Benefit Budget
• EUR 1,400 development budget per year
• Hybrid working: balance between home and office work (possible for most roles)
• A pension, for which you can set the maximum amount of your personal contribution