Senior Product Specialist

Project overview

Assignment Description

The work is performed within the Security section, part of the IT Infrastructure (IT-Infra) entity, of the Joint Information Provision Command (JIVC) of COMMIT. JIVC is the IT company of the Ministry of Defence and ensures that everyone in the Ministry of Defence can collaborate effectively (civilians and military personnel). In the Netherlands but also on mission. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. IT-Infra delivers all necessary IT infrastructure solutions for the Ministry of Defence. It does this together with all its chain partners, in mixed teams or otherwise.

IT-Infra consists of the departments Infrastructure Central Services (ICS), Platform Services Defence (PSD), Generic Infrastructure Services (GIS), IT-Continuity Center (ITCC), and Generic IT & Infrastructure (GII).

Building block PAM provides security-specific services to the Ministry of Defence regarding the management of so-called High Privileged Accounts, accounts with elevated rights within a wide range of applications, devices, etc. This concerns both passwords for personal accounts and secrets for machines. PAM consists of 2 components: Privileged Access Management and Secrets Management.

ACTIVITIES

Background Assignment

The SPS employee is responsible for 3 pillars, namely:

Discovery/Design (Future product decisions)

Change/Develop (Business value, Strategic Importance, Urgency)

RUN / Management (Business impact, risk, governance, requirements, deadlines)

Increasingly, work is done according to SCRUM/AGILE/SAFe and DevSecOps methodologies.

Generic description competence area and levels

Identifies and manages structured and unstructured information, taking into account the information dissemination policy. Creates information structure to enable exploitation and optimization of information. Understands the right tools that can be used to create, extract, maintain, renew, and disseminate business knowledge to benefit from the information item.

Summarizing task and mission

Provides the translation of business requirements into end-to-end IT solutions. Defines and designs solutions in line with the technical architecture that meet business requirements and support change.

• Ensures daily operations by:
• Ensures the execution of lifecycle management of the building blocks by:
• Ensures problem management by:
• Ensures coordination between the established frameworks in the area of:

Responsibilities

Research and interpret business requirements

Determine solution orientation

Align the solution with the technical architecture

Identify potential technical design risks

Monitor built-in quality

Work within the budgetary framework to validate the financial impact of design decisions

Identify opportunities for innovation

Route planning for technology plans

Requirements

eCF profile: Solution Designer

Reference Area: D.10 Information and Knowledge Management

This assignment is based on the European e-Competence Framework (e-CF). This is a European standard for describing IT competencies and the corresponding level of responsibility. The eCF profile indicates which competencies and at what level (e-1 to e-5) are expected from the candidate. We expect candidates to clearly demonstrate in their CV that they possess these competencies. This can be done by describing for each relevant assignment or position:

CVs in which the required eCF competencies are not demonstrably present cannot be fully assessed for suitability.

Candidate has at least 4 years of demonstrable work experience with the chosen eCF profile similar role.

Candidate has at least 5 years of demonstrable knowledge and experience with systematic action to respond to daily operational needs during changes, prevent service interruptions, and maintain coherence with SLA and information security requirements.

Candidate preferably has demonstrable work experience with IAM (Identity Access Management)

Candidate preferably has demonstrable work experience with PAM (Privileged Account Management)

Additional:

Hybrid working: Yes

Frequency of days working from home: 2 days MAX

On-call services: NVT

• the role the candidate fulfilled
• the tasks and responsibilities involved
• the extent to which these align with the required eCF competencies and the level

Project details

• Start: 2026-12-31T23:00:00
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Den Helder Noord-Holland, NL
• Languages: Dutch