Product Owner

TenneT is growing fast to realize its strategic ambitions. We play a leading role in driving the energy transition. We are looking for a passionate Product Owner at our location Amsterdam who will contribute to this and that might be you?

Your contribution to TenneT

Equigy is a European joint Venture company between six European TSO’s (TenneT Netherlands, TenneT Germany, Transnet BW, APG, Swissgrid and Terna) deploying the crowd balancing platform (CBP), to act as the gateway between TSO national markets for flexible power delivery (ancillary services markets) and aggregated Distributed Energy Resources (DER). Until now, TSO national markets for flexible power delivery were in most cases accessible only to large B2B market players with large industrial power generation and power consumption assets such as power plants or industrial production lines. Since these ancillary markets present an opportunity of billions across Europe annually, unlocking these as a B2C market via the CBP allows DER owners to gain significant additional value, greatly enhancing the justification for the investment case for such DER devices. In turn, more participation of such devices unlocks a huge potential of additional flexibility for TSO's and DSO's for balancing and congestion management. Equigy’s CBP realizes this ambition, amongst others by creating an easy and standardized market access for aggregators to encourage more participation of DER in today’s markets.

• As Product owner you perform a pivotal role in the realization of the crowd balancing platform, thereby contributing to the energy transition.
• You stand very close to a professional group of developers, as well as being the linking pin to stakeholders from Equigy and 6 TSO's, such as business consultants, subject matter experts, and national product owners.
• You are responsible for coordinating the team’s efforts and delivery in general, aligning with various TSO stakeholders from all different countries, planning the backlog, mid-term forecasting, and coordinating and guiding the DevOps team’s efforts.
• Your focus will be on a particular squad, but you will work together with another product owner, both having the full platform in scope and being able to replace and support each other.
• In Equigy, you will be part of a small and international team that works together across countries on different TSO and Equigy projects, in partnership with a large international IT supplier.

Your profile and background

• Product Owner responsibililties:
• The Product owner is responsible for managing the entire process from user stories definition until business stakeholder acceptance, and for aligning the relevant stakeholders from the different countries in an efficient DevOps process.
• The Product owner works closely together with the product owners from the different Countries, the national product owners. These national product owners are primarily responsible for getting the business requirements with the help of SMEs within their organization and accepting the product from their country’s perspective, whilst the Equigy product owner is responsible for managing the process, the integrated backlog containing all developments and accepting the product from European standardization and operations perspective.
• Accountable for managing the product backlog.
• Refining the backlog by adding, removing, or updating items. Ensure that it is well-groomed and ready for development. That it is visible, transparent and clear to all and show what the DevOps team will work on next.
• Ensuring that the DevOps team understands items in the backlog.
• Defining and prioritizing user stories and features, based on business value, customer needs and market conditions.
• Providing the team with an understanding of what needs to be delivered.
• Ensuring that the product aligns with the customer needs.
• Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to plan and prioritize releases. This involves balancing the delivery of new features with addressing technical debt and ensuring a stable and sustainable development pace.
• Identify and manage risks associated with the product development process. Proactively address impediments that may hinder the team's progress and work towards their resolution.
• Ensure smooth product alignment across the distributed delivery team.
• Refinements and planning of all DevOps work, regardless of the teams delivery centers.
• Regularly engage with stakeholders, including customers, business leaders, and the development team.
• Accepting / rejecting the work results at the end of each sprint.
• Skills:
• Degree in information technology or equivalent.
• Supplemented by certifications in: Agile, Scrum, SAFe.

• 3 years of relevant experience in software development.

• 3 years of relevant experience in the energy sector.

• Experienced in working within an agile / scrum environment.
• Experience in a start-up environment is considered an advantage.
• Thorough knowledge of the domains: energy, TSO and DER/flex.
• Decisive in terms of capable of making tough decisions about what to work on first, considering factors like value, dependencies, and risks.
• Adaptable to changes in requirements and priorities.
• Excellent communication skills, able to clearly express ideas and actively listen to stakeholders and facilitating discussions.
• Proficient in the English language both verbal and written.
• Able to visit the largely Dutch based DevOps team on a regular basis and additional travel if required.

Our recruiting process

Our offer

We are family friendly and flexible

Health - your basis

Modern working environment

Attractive remuneration and social benefits

Personal development

This will be our challenge

Strategy and Partnerships is set up because of TenneT's needs in new ways of working to realize our ambition to advance the energy transition. In doing so, innovative partnerships will be key to driving scalable solutions for flexibility, renewable energy integration and digitalisation.

Additional information

• As soon as possible
• The weekly working time is 32-40 hours
• Type of contract: secondment (long-term) from TSO to Equigy. You will remain under employment of the TSO.
• Job interviews for this position will be (partly) in English. Please send us your application document in English as well

Salary

€ 3879 - € 7660

TenneT is a leading European grid operator committed to a secure and reliable electricity supply - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We are shaping the energy transition for a sustainable energy future. As the first cross-border transmission system operator, we plan, build and operate an almost 25,000 kilometres long high and extra-high voltage grid in the Netherlands and Germany and are one of the largest investors in national and international electricity grids, on land and at sea. Every day, our 7,400 employees give their best and ensure with responsibility, courage and networking that more than 43 million end consumers can rely on a stable electricity supply.

TenneT is an equal opportunity employer for ALL and is fully committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity to ensure that all applicants and employees are considered for recruitment, promotion and employment regardless of their ethnic origin, skin colour, religion or belief, gender, national origin, age, disability, sexual identity, marital/family status.