Senior Product Owner - Infrastructure Platforms

We are seeking a Senior Product Owner - Infrastructure Platforms to lead and drive the strategic evolution of our Database (primarily SQL estate) and Server (WinTel / Hypervisor) platforms, including VMware and future compute models, within our SaaS organisation.

This role combines deep infrastructure domain ownership with strong Product Ownership leadership. Infrastructure is treated as a product, serving internal customers such as Product Tribes, Product Owners, and Product Managers.

You will be accountable for platform vision, roadmap, modernization, Agile delivery maturity, risk reduction, and internal customer satisfaction - ensuring that our infrastructure enables scalable, secure, resilient SaaS services while migrating progressively toward cloud-native architectures.

What do we have to offer?

• A dynamic environment: flexible working hours and working from home
• 25 days holiday + 8 days public holiday
• Flexible benefits scheme (including ability to buy additional 5 days holiday)
• Pension up to 6% matched
• Car allowance
• Private medical Insurance
• Variable pay bonus
• Workation: possibility to work from any SD Worx location (4 weeks per year, EU only)
• Referral program
• Learning opportunities: through an individual development plan and professional training
• Career growth: whether you want to become more of an expert in your field or want to expand your knowledge more horizontally, there is always room to grow within SD Worx!

Which tasks can you expect?

Platform Product Ownership

• Act as the Product Owner for Database and Server (Wintel) platforms
• Define and own the vision, roadmap, and lifecycle of SQL and WinTel/Hypervisor platforms.
• Ensure platform stability, performance, scalability, and cost optimisation.
• Manage technical debt and drive long-term modernization (cloud migration, automation-first operations).
• Clearly articulate platform value and maturity expectations to internal customers.

Database Platform Ownership (SQL Focus)

• Lead full SQL estate lifecycle across on-prem and cloud.
• Develop and execute cloud migration strategy (PaaS/IaaS/hybrid).
• Govern versioning, HA/DR, backup/restore, patching, and security compliance.
• Improve performance, scalability, observability, and automation maturity.

Server (WinTel/Hypervisor) Platform Ownership

• Own strategy for Windows Server, VMware, and compute platforms.
• Modernize compute, improve automation, and reduce manual provisioning.
• Improve provisioning lead times and cost transparency (FinOps).
• Guide hypervisor rationalisation and cloud-first design.

Stakeholder & Internal Customer Management

• Act as primary liaison between infrastructure squads and product tribes.
• Translate business needs into clear backlog items and priorities.
• Align platform roadmap with product roadmaps and communicate strategy clearly.
• Manage expectations, risks, and internal customer satisfaction.

Backlog Ownership & Value Prioritisation

• Maintain structured, prioritised backlogs with clear epics and user stories.
• Balance stability, modernization, optimisation, risk, and technical debt.
• Ensure backlog items are sprint-ready and aligned to outcomes.

Agile Maturity & Delivery Excellence

• Partner with Technical Lead and Scrum Master to ensure strong Agile practice.
• Lead or support ceremonies: planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives.
• Clarify priorities during sprints and accept completed work.
• Drive squad maturity and meaningful, outcome-focused delivery.

Governance, Risk & Operational Maturity

• Maintain risk visibility, DR and resilience standards, and compliance readiness.
• Prepare for audits and track key platform KPIs (availability, provisioning time, automation, cost efficiency, technical debt).
• Ensure platforms continually improve in operational effectiveness.

Do you have experience in VMware?, * Proven experience as a Product Owner in infrastructure, platform, or SaaS environments

• Strong domain knowledge in:

• SQL Server platforms
• Windows Server environments
• VMware / Hypervisors
• Cloud migration strategies

• Experience operating in Agile delivery models
• Demonstrated backlog ownership and prioritisation capability
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Experience balancing operational stability with modernization

Preferred Experience

• Azure, AWS or GCP exposure
• FinOps principles
• DR and resilience architecture
• Platform engineering transformation programs

From many places, we work as one, moving from better to best together.

Pulled from the full job description

• Referral programme
• Company pension
• Private medical insurance
• Flexible schedule

In today’s new world of fluid work, people want to be inspired by what they do and have the freedom to focus on what matters. Organisations need a dynamic, motivated workforce empowered by smart technology. As a leading European provider of integrated HR solutions, SD Worx turns HR into a source of value for their customers’ business and the people that work for them. SD Worx delivers HR solutions across the entire employee lifecycle, from paying employees to attracting, employing, rewarding and developing the talent who make businesses succeed. SD Worx powers performance through four core capabilities: software, outsourcing, consultancy and data-driven insights. 

SD Worx is the trusted leading European provider of end-to-end HR solutions for all organisations and workers. About 90,000 small and large organisations across Europe place their trust in the company and its +75 years' worth of experience. SD Worx calculates the salaries of approximately 5.7 million employees and ranks among the top five worldwide. The more than 7,500 employees operate in Belgium (HQ), Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. SD Worx achieved a consolidated revenue of EUR 1.058 billion in 2023.