Product Owner Azure Platform Services

At Rabobank, we aim to deliver the best services for our IT engineers, and as Product Owner Azure Platform Services, you can play a central role in providing them!

You would join the Area Engineering Platforms that 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 Product Owner

Since its launch at Rabobank in 2016, the Azure Platform has grown from a project to a thriving ecosystem across all angles of the Rabobank, supporting many key functionalities. In 2020/2021, we pivoted to a dedicated subscription model, onboarding a few pioneering squads. Fast forward, we have scaled to over 3,000 subscriptions with around 300,000 Azure resources. Now, we’re about to embark on our next chapter.

To support continued growth, improve security posture, and reduce complexity, we’re restructuring our Azure squads. In Q4 2025, we’ll split into Consumer Services and Platform Services — and we’re looking for a Product Owner Azure Platform Services to help lead the way.

This is a fitting job for you if you're passionate about platform automation & support, infrastructure services, and enhancing security and compliance based on our policy & security frameworks. Working closely with Microsoft and your internal stakeholders (including user groups), you lay the crucial foundation for the Azure Consumer Services (and other products such as Kong API gateway and Kubehub AKS clusters) to build upon. Do you want to make a real impact in the heart of Rabobank's IT continuity & security? This is your moment.

You

• Focus on service adoption and success (outcomes), rather than technical deliverables (outputs), to create value with your two squads for your colleagues.
• Manoeuvre in a complex stakeholder field, including Microsoft as cloud service provider.
• Use data to derive your product vision and priorities.
• Bring energy and ambition to your way of working.
• Enjoy challenges that require creativity and persistence to see results.
• Listen to our consumers while addressing the change needed.
• Communicate naturally across different organizational layers, using your technical knowhow on infrastructure, security, and compliance.
• Think in business value as a Product Owner, while also being tech savvy.
• Guide squads based on the shared vision of each of your angles as a squad triangle member (PO, Solution Architect, Tech Lead, and Scrum Master).

Top responsibilities

• Own, communicate, and evolve the product vision and roadmap for the Platform Services, setting priorities based on value (including work abstracted away from consumers, risk reduction, service availability, and scalability) for your consumers.
• Validate with stakeholders (e.g. CISO, architecture, and consumers) upon an approach to help make autonomous squads more secure in their Azure usage.
• Balance autonomy (via dedicated subscriptions) for consuming squads by detection of non-compliance versus preventive controls and central regulation.
• Promote and ensure standardization, reusability (of IaC), and self-service capabilities.
• Drive reliability, using collaboration skills to convert policies into clear actionable insights, so consumers are helped with ease-of-use and lower cognitive loads.
• Align and collaborate closely with other Product Owners (e.g. Azure Consumer Services, ROP, KubeHub) that build on top of your product.
• Align with Architecture to create the best (reusable) solutions (by automation).
• Provide the Tech Lead with input to advocate requirements to Microsoft as vendor.
• As a Product Owner, together with the Tech Lead and Solution Architect, you are part of the leadership of the area.

Together we achieve more than alone

Our Azure squads have two squad triangles with two Product Owners, one Tech Lead, two Solution Architects, one Scrum Master, and 24 developers and business analysts. With a diverse mix; nearly 25% is female and we have nationalities from all over the world.

You and your talent

• Consumer focus, creativity, value-driven, impact, storytelling, analytical skills, excellent communication skills, agile-mindset, and problem-solving are essential for this role.
• Academic working and thinking level.
• 5+ years of experience creating value in a PO role.
• Experience in Cloud infrastructure, with a good understanding of Azure policy, Azure management, and Azure security.
• A security background and/or affinity.
• Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) certification.
• Fluent in English (verbal and written) and able to tailor communication to diverse audiences; Dutch proficiency is a plus.

Preferably you have experience in/with:

• Banking or highly regulated industry.
• Managing a platform at scale in a large organisation with self-service as principle.
• OKR goals (considered a pre).
• Quarterly/monthly Agile planning events for cross squad-dependency mapping.
• Journey mapping and/or other technologies looking to optimize user experience (a plus).

We want you to have the opportunity to job-craft and add value beyond Azure Platform Services, using your strengths and expertise. Taking on extra topics within the area or cross areas. We are happy to offer you the flexibility to have a good work/life balance, allowing you to opt for any between 32 and 40 hours a week divided over 4 to 5 days.

This is what we offer you

• 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

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.