Product Owner

Product Owner - Nexa (Internal Developer Platform)

Shape the Developer Experience at Rabobank.

You and your job

At Rabobank, we believe great developer experience leads to better software, faster delivery, and more productive engineering teams.

As Product Owner for Nexa, Rabobank's Internal Developer Platform, you play a key role in improving the Developer Experience (DevEx) for engineers across the bank. You own the product vision, roadmap, and priorities for platform capabilities that help teams discover, build, test, deploy, and operate software efficiently and securely.

You will operate at the intersection of product management, software engineering, and platform operations, enabling engineering teams to deliver software quickly and safely at scale.

You will guide two offshore squads in India, collaborate closely with platform engineers and architects, and align stakeholders across a complex enterprise environment.

Practical Examples

• Define and execute the roadmap for Rabobank's Internal Developer Platform.
• Enable engineering teams through self-service capabilities, platform automation, and developer tooling.
• Facilitate co-creation and InnerSource contributions while maintaining governance and quality standards.
• Balance developer experience, platform reliability, security, and operational excellence when making product decisions.
• Build strong connections between Product Owners in the Netherlands and offshore engineering squads in India.
• Align stakeholders on platform priorities, investments, and delivery expectations.

Facts & Figures

• 36 hours per week
• You guide 2 offshore squads in India
• More than 49,000 Rabobank colleagues around the world

Top 3 Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Nexa vision, roadmap, and backlog to improve Developer Experience and engineering productivity across Rabobank.
• Define and maintain platform governance, operational processes, quality standards, and release guardrails that enable engineering teams to innovate safely at scale.
• Build alignment across stakeholders and engineering teams while navigating competing priorities and organizational complexity.

Work in a new international team that is still taking shape. You bring structure, clarity, and direction while helping Nexa grow into a strong platform product for Rabobank.

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of difference. Bringing together people's differences is what makes us an even better bank. So we are very curious about what you can bring to our team at Area Engineering Journey and Nexa platform.

"If you enjoy transformation, want to leave your footprint in an organisation and want to be there early when impact is created, then this is the place."
Lâle Çimsit, Hiring Manager

The Area Engineering Journey has 6 Product Owners. They work together to build and evolve Nexa. Each Product Owner has a different focus area, but together they deliver value as one team.

Talking of Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank that operates in 35 countries for over 9 million customers. Together with these customers, our members and partners we stand side by side to create a world in which everyone has access to enough healthy food. In the Netherlands we work to create a country in which people are happy with how they live, work and do business.

You and your talent

This role requires proven experience with developer platforms, engineering platforms, or Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). You have experience improving Developer Experience (DevEx) through developer-facing products, self-service capabilities, platform tooling, and engineering productivity initiatives. Experience primarily focused on platform operations, IT service management, business applications, data platforms, infrastructure platforms, or vendor-managed products is not considered a close match for this role.

• 15+ years of professional experience, including at least 7 years in Product Management of technical products and platforms.
• Demonstrable experience with Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), developer portals, engineering platforms, Backstage, or similar engineering enablement products.
• Strong technical foundation with previous hands-on software engineering experience. You have worked as a Software Engineer, Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or similar technical role and can engage credibly with engineers on architecture, operations, security, and scalability topics.
• Experience managing technical platforms as products and balancing developer experience, feature delivery, reliability, security, and long-term platform health.
• Experience defining platform vision, strategy, and roadmaps and translating them into measurable outcomes and actionable backlogs.
• Deep understanding of platform governance, security, operations, support models, and quality standards.
• Strong understanding of co-creation (or InnerSource) models. You know how to create effective guardrails that enable contributors to deliver features quickly without compromising reliability, security, performance, or platform consistency.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, and storytelling skills. You build trusted relationships, influence without authority, align diverse stakeholders, and navigate complex organizational environments with confidence.
• Experience collaborating with distributed teams and offshore engineering organizations.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies, open-source ecosystems, and SaaS products is considered a strong advantage.

You and the job application process

• We kindly ask you to apply with both your CV and a motivation letter. Please describe in your motivation letter how you would build alignment across stakeholders and engineering teams while navigating competing priorities and organizational complexity.
• Only complete applications will be taken into consideration.
• Any questions about the role? Reach out to Lâle Çimsit, Area Lead, via Lale.Cimsit@rabobank.nl
• Any questions about the process? Reach out to Sacha Veenhof, Corporate Recruiter, via Sacha.Veenhof@rabobank.nl
• You can find answers to frequently asked questions on rabobank.jobs/en/faq
• A security screening is part of the process.
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