Lead Application Optimization Corporate

Of course, as an employer, we also have a lot to offer you. This is what you get from us:

• A gross monthly salary of at least €5,945 and a maximum of €9,177 depending on your work experience, based on 40 hours excluding 8% holiday allowance
• A fixed 13th month; part of it is paid out monthly and part in January of the following year. Or, you can use it towards a FLEX & BOOST goal of your choice! Click here to read more about it
• An annual individual and collective increase in accordance with our CAO
• € 1500 per year in availability budget that you may use at your own discretion for, for example, training, coaching, and courses
• Flexible days off: our colleagues may decide for themselves (in consultation with the manager) how they manage their leave
• A good work-life balance (such as 2 days in the office, 3 days at home, transition leave, exchanging a public holiday for a holiday of your religious or cultural preference)
• Home office workshop to optimally set up your workspace at home, including a mobile phone & laptop, of course
• 50% discount on our products and services, so you can browse the internet, call, and stream affordably
• Good travel expense reimbursement: you receive full reimbursement for your public transport costs or € 0.23 per kilometer if you travel by car. Prefer to come by bike? Then you can claim our bicycle allowance of € 0.40 per kilometer
• Possibility to purchase a lease bike that KPN contributes to monthly (with an indefinite contract): from city bikes to e-bikes and from racing bikes to speed-pedelecs; you choose what you ride
• Excellent pension conditions: a total contribution of 25% of your pensionable salary, of which KPN contributes 17.5% and you 7.5%

We are the Tech Hub Private Cloud, part of KPN System Integrator for Business Netherlands. We offer advanced IT services from our unique, secure Private Cloud, tailored to the needs of our customers. Both on-site and from our Dutch KPN datacenters.

Do you like playing a key role in modernizing IT environments for leading companies? Do you like working in an innovative environment where your ideas are valued and you are given the freedom to experiment and grow? Are you the person our customers say, ''we would like to have more of them''? Do you often think about how work can be more fun and better? Join Private Cloud and make a real impact!

Your team consists of diverse professionals, each with their own expertise within the technical application landscapes of customers. The combination of leadership, ability to drive change, and customer focus brings you forward. Moreover, with a dose of organizing talent and decisiveness and your positive attitude, you fit perfectly within the team. This team consists of OS administrators, database specialists, vulnerability and security specialists, technical application managers, and application migration specialists who develop the products and services needed to migrate and support our customers' traditional applications. You work closely with your colleague Lead/Product Owner Application Optimization Public and the Cloud Native team, who develop specific solutions for Cloud native workloads. Services from Application Optimization and Cloud Native work seamlessly together for the same customer. Your colleagues? KPN professionals who, with a great sense of responsibility, help customers quickly and skillfully with the integration and further development of KPN services. Stimulating and challenging each other to continuously improve; that is how we make progress. Additionally, you are part of the Application Delivery Lead team within Private Cloud.

As Lead of the Application Optimization Corporate team, you are responsible for the (further) development and management of KPN environments for customer applications and workloads, including integrations with the public Cloud and relevant tooling, automation, and orchestration. You set ambitious goals and constantly raise the bar, always keeping customer focus central. You understand how our customers' developers work and provide them with optimal support to continuously develop and release. Speed, flexibility, and quality are your core concepts when it comes to service delivery. In addition to your role as Lead, you also fulfill the role of Product Owner, in which you provide direction to the backlog, set clear priorities, and ensure optimal deployment of capacity, so that your team delivers maximum value to our customers.

You organize an excellent customer experience by ensuring activities are executed with high quality, quickly, and in accordance with customer expectations. You ensure that service delivery is extremely secure and complies with the KPN Security Policy and ISAE/SOC2 compliance. You are continuously looking for opportunities to further improve service delivery. You guide customers through an application migration strategy tailored to the customer environment regarding Private Cloud—traditional or Native—and Public Cloud. As a Lead, you are responsible for all HR activities, and as a Product Owner, you ensure operational management and prioritization from the backlog. In doing so, you find the right balance between our customers, our services, and innovation.

As a Lead, you are the vital link between the change mandate and the team. You ensure that your team makes the move toward fast, high-quality (future-oriented cloud native based) service delivery, which makes our customers eager to work with KPN professionals. You succeed in this because you:

• Have specialist technical knowledge regarding application services and understand the technical possibilities and limitations. You know which profiles are needed to execute the technical roadmap;
• Provide technical advice to stakeholders, are not afraid to make decisions, and can decide on architectural choices and technical designs;
• Actively seek collaboration with stakeholders at customers and KPN and can communicate in a target-group-oriented manner;
• Drive the quality and relevance of KPN service delivery in relation to the needs of our customers and the services of our competitors;
• Continuously make the organization better. You attract the best talent and help colleagues to develop;
• Are a fantastic team player who strives for collective success and translates goals into concrete actions for the team and every individual colleague;
• Are the embodiment of our core values: trust, courage, and growth.

We can also count on you to have:

• HBO (Higher Professional Education) level of working and thinking;
• At least 3-5 years of experience in a similar role;
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies;
• Inspiring, authentic, and connecting leadership;
• Knowledge/understanding of relevant technological ICT developments, particularly in the field of application environments;
• Certifications in the technical domains are a plus;
• Certified Product Owner is a plus;