Product Owner Key Certificate

Product Owner Key Certificate & Secret Management

Location: Brussels | Sector: Banking

Role Overview

As Product Owner Key Certificate & Secret Management, you will play a central role in the vision, development, and delivery of innovative and secure solutions for certificate and key management. The position requires a unique blend of PKI, cryptography, and Portunus expertise with a balanced agile and content focus, driving both operational delivery and long-term product evolution. You will help steer the convergence towards post-quantum readiness as part of a large-scale cyber transformation initiative, ensuring alignment with group standards and future-proofing the organization's security.

Main Responsibilities

• Define and champion a long-term product vision for certificate and secret management, closely linked to the strategic roadmap and group cybersecurity objectives.
• Translate customer, business, regulatory and security requirements into actionable backlog items and prioritize based on value and risk.
• Lead the product backlog and facilitate agile ceremonies, ensuring transparent progress, consistent stakeholder updates, and iterative delivery.
• Balance the need for agility with deep content expertise—communicate complex PKI and cryptography concepts clearly and support design decisions.
• Drive group-wide post-quantum and convergence initiatives within key management and crypto infrastructure, challenging the status quo and ensuring readiness for next-gen threats.
• Anticipate future needs and resource requirements to deliver on the roadmap, ensuring seamless scaling or adaptation as the product matures.
• Coordinate closely with architecture, cyber, compliance, and engineering teams to align priorities and resolve dependencies.
• Track KPIs/OKRs, assess feature adoption and business value, and continuously refine the product strategy based on outcomes.

Must-Have Skills & Experience

• Deep expertise in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), cryptography, and in-depth hands-on experience with Portunus or equivalent key management platforms.
• Track record as a Product Owner or similar in agile and cross-functional teams, preferably in a banking or highly regulated environment.
• Experience with cyber transformation, SSL/TLS, certificate lifecycle management, and evolving security standards (including post-quantum cryptography).
• Ability to balance agile ways of working (ceremonies, refinement, incremental delivery) with strong content leadership and vision.
• Strategic yet pragmatic thinker, able to anticipate resource needs and future business requirements.
• Strong communicator across technical, security, and business stakeholders; able to make PKI and crypto topics accessible to non-specialists.
• Fluent in English and at least one national language (French or Dutch).

Added Value

• Previous involvement in group security/cyber programs.
• Familiarity with major banking regulations concerning cryptography and digital identity.
• Certification in Agile/Scrum and relevant technical domains (e.g. CISSP, CKA, PKI certifications).