Introductie
The Platform Product Owner defines, drives, and evolves the vision of a next-generation
mobile platform.
This role ensures the platform becomes a scalable, secure, and extensible ecosystem,
enabling internal and external teams to integrate new services while maintaining
consistency in user experience, architecture, and security standards.
Organisatie
Acting as a central connector between business, architecture, engineering, and partners, the
Product Owner ensures that platform investments generate long-term value and support
future strategic opportunities.
Functie
Primary Responsibilities
• Define and own the platform product vision and strategy.
• Translate business strategy into a clear roadmap.
• Identify and prioritize platform capabilities supporting integrations and business use
cases.
• Own and continuously refine the product backlog.
• Define and communicate objectives, KPIs, and success criteria.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and business goals.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, engineers, and security teams.
• Facilitate alignment between platform initiatives and business priorities.
• Define platform governance, contribution models, and integration boundaries.
• Drive adoption and usage of the platform across internal and external teams.
Secondary Responsibilities
• Gather, analyze, and challenge requirements from platform consumers.
• Communicate progress, risks, and dependencies to leadership.
• Support integration guidelines and onboarding processes.
• Promote consistency and standardization across implementations.
• Contribute to platform governance and evolution decisions.
• Validate delivered features against expected outcomes and value.
• Define and monitor KPIs for adoption, usage, and performance.
• Ensure MVPs deliver measurable business value.
Functie-eisen
Technical Requirements
• Proven experience as Product Owner, Product Manager, or Platform Product Owner.
• Strong experience in Agile environments.
• Experience with digital platforms, APIs, or integration ecosystems.
• Experience collaborating with architects, engineering teams, and security/DPO
stakeholders.
• Good knowledge of HTTP protocol.
• Good understanding of REST APIs.
• Understanding of Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) principles.
• Understanding of component-based architecture.
• Ability to discuss architectural trade-offs with technical stakeholders.
Additional Skills
• Business Analysis (5+ years).
• Java Development (7+ years).
• Enterprise Integration Patterns (5+ years).
• REST APIs (5+ years).
• SOAP APIs (5+ years).
• UI Frameworks (5+ years).
• Microservices, Docker & Kubernetes (5+ years).
• Quality Assurance (5+ years).
• Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Leadership (5+ years).
• Development Support Tools (JIRA, SVN, etc.) (5+ years).
Methodology
• Agile
• Scrum
• SAFe
• Kanban
• Scrumban
Certification such as PSPO, CSPO or SAFe are considered a plus.
Languages
• French or Dutch (at least one mandatory).
• English (mandatory).
Presence
• Minimum 2 days on-site presence required after onboarding.
Aanbod
Contract
• Initial contract of 6 months.
• Extensions possible.
Inlichtingen
Ginny-Rose Lie-A-Jen +32 3 202 05 00