Product Owner

Product Owner – Technical Applications

Can you turn strategic priorities into a clear roadmap and a focused backlog? Do you combine technical understanding with the ability to bring people together and keep delivery moving?

We’re looking for a Product Owner to guide a multidisciplinary team working on applications that support infrastructure planning, design, construction and maintenance.

You’ll connect business priorities with technical delivery, helping the team understand what needs to be delivered and why it matters. Working closely with stakeholders, technical specialists and external partners, you’ll balance immediate needs with the long-term quality and reliability of the applications.

What will you do?

• Translate strategic priorities into clear team objectives and measurable results.
• Create and maintain the product backlog, keeping priorities, scope and expected outcomes clear.
• Refine requirements and follow up on progress together with the team and Scrum Master.
• Identify opportunities to improve applications and processes in line with business needs.
• Define and drive a technical roadmap that balances functionality, modernisation and maintainability.
• Work with technical colleagues on improvements involving cloud technologies, CI/CD and test automation.
• Oversee the product lifecycle and the technical health of the applications within your scope.
• Manage team capacity and budget considerations in collaboration with the relevant leads.
• Coordinate with suppliers and partners, making expectations, dependencies and responsibilities clear.
• Help improve the speed and quality of software delivery.
• Support a self-organising team by providing direction, removing obstacles and encouraging ownership.

What do you bring?

• A master’s degree and at least ten years of professional experience.
• A customer-focused, results-oriented approach and a strong technical understanding.
• The ability to translate complex priorities into clear objectives and practical decisions.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical colleagues.
• Experience guiding and coaching multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience working with and coordinating external suppliers and partners.
• An analytical mindset and the confidence to make well-founded trade-offs between value, capacity, cost and technical needs.
• A structured approach, with enough flexibility to adapt when priorities change.
• A collaborative leadership style: you create clarity and help others take responsibility.
• Fluency in English, combined with Dutch and/or French.

What would be a plus?

• Experience working in complex IT environments with multiple applications, teams and external partners.
• Familiarity with applications supporting infrastructure planning, design or asset management.
• Experience with Agile ways of working.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies, CI/CD and test automation.

What We Offer

• Long-term freelance assignment.
• Challenging environment combining business, process, and technology topics.
• Hybrid working model.

Interested?

Send us your CV or a short introduction highlighting your relevant testing experience. We’ll take the time to discuss the role and see whether it matches your experience and what you’re looking for.