* Master degree in IT combined with relevant IT professional experience of 16 years;
* Proven experience of managing and prioritising a complex product backlog, defining product roadmaps, and delivering incremental value in short iterations;
* Proven experience ensuring that product requirements and acceptance criteria take into account security, privacy, compliance and operational needs, in line with DevSecOps principle;
* Strong experience facilitating workshops and requirement-gathering sessions with heterogeneous stakeholders;
* Extensive experience with large, enterprise-level multi-user information systems;
* Experience working on IT systems that support public administration, regulatory compliance, or policy implementation (e.g. reporting obligations, licensing or permitting systems, registries, data processing and visualisation);
* Experience managing products in an ecosystem where GUI front ends and machine-to-machine interfaces must remain aligned;
* Experience with products deployed on public cloud environments and using managed services (e.g. database, object storage, logging/monitoring, etc.);
* Experience in Agile methodologies;
* Experience preparing decision material and reporting for senior management and governance bodies;
* Ability to specify and validate conceptual API designs (REST/JSON or equivalent) and to ensure that API capabilities support business and legal needs;
* Ability to drive user requirements and data publication in terms of a compelling narrative and visual data stories;
* Understanding of operational constraints and opportunities in using centralised corporate solutions and/or cloud-based solutions (availability, observability, security, cost implications) and ability to factor these into product decisions;
* Familiarity (conceptual, not necessarily hands-on) with technologies similar to those in the current stack (e.g. Java EE/WebLogic, Spring/JPA, Oracle databases, S3-like storage, Elasticsearch, Angular-based front ends);
* Good knowledge of the Agile toolkit (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Balsamiq, Gliffy, etc., or equivalent);
* The following certifications are required: Product Owner / Agile certifications such as Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I/II), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager or equivalent;
* Additional relevant certifications (e.g. ITIL for service lifecycle, cloud platform foundations, data protection / security) will be considered an asset;
* Excellent command of the English language.