Senior Epic Owner

Project overview

Stedin is looking for a Senior Epic Owner (Facilitating Optimal Market Functioning).

(ZZP NOT POSSIBLE) Indicative hourly rate is €90,- all-in, excluding VAT.

Within the strategy Facilitating Optimal Market Functioning, theme Correct Measurement Data as a source, we are looking for an experienced Epic Owner who effortlessly involves stakeholders, creates support, and stimulates change. Do you have a passion for the energy transition and want to contribute to innovative solutions that advance the energy market? Read on!

About our collaboration and the theme

The pRO is a virtual collaboration of the distribution system operator (DSO) and is located in Amersfoort. From here, control is exercised over all products, services, and processes belonging to the customer and market facilitation processes of the joint distribution system operators. Within the Theme Correct measurement data as a source, we ensure that everything concerning meters and measurement data, for both large and small connections, is correct, timely, and fully available for market processes.

As Epic Owner, you play a crucial role in this transition and are responsible for realizing change, improvement, and innovation of processes, (IT) systems, and products.

Your assignment as Senior Epic Owner

Data as a lifeline

Hard skills you bring

Soft skills that are distinguishing

What do we offer you?

• You are responsible for realizing sector-wide changes in data exchange, energy registers, and data services, with reliable, traceable, and future-proof data at the core.
• You develop and realize epics that contribute to the transition to a data-driven energy market and ensure coherence between strategy, architecture, semantics, processes, and implementation.
• You connect grid operators, architects, business stakeholders, and IT teams around common goals and ensure support for sector-wide agreements.
• You steer the adoption of new data patterns, registers, and exchange mechanisms and guide the phasing out of legacy solutions.
• You ensure that data quality, governance, semantic clarity, and assurance are part of changes from the start and are not added later.
• A completed Bachelor's or Master's degree and a professional and intellectual level of thinking.
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrable experience as an Epic Owner, project leader, or similar role within a complex IT organization.
• Extensive knowledge of the energy market and chain processes.
• Experience with sector-wide change processes involving multiple DSOs.
• Minimum 3 years of experience with SAFe, Leading SAFe, or SAFe Lean Portfolio Management (certification is a plus). Experience with Jira align is a pré.
• Knowledge of data architecture, event-driven integration, and data platforms.
• Experience with semantic modeling and data standards.
• Knowledge of governance, assurance, and compliance issues related to data.
• Ability to translate architectural frameworks into executable roadmaps and features.
• Stakeholder management at operational, tactical, and strategic levels.
• Connecting parties with seemingly conflicting interests.
• Creating support without a formal hierarchical position.
• Reducing complex issues to a joint decision.
• Balancing long-term architecture with short-term realization.
• Having difficult conversations about responsibilities, ownership, and priorities.
• Guiding organizations through change without damaging relationships.
• Remaining results-oriented in an environment with many dependencies.
• Acting pragmatically without losing sight of the strategic direction.
• Building trust between DSOs, EDSN, and other chain parties.
• Structuring unclear or politically sensitive dossiers.
• An assignment for 32 hours per week spread over several days per week with direct social impact, of which 2 days per week on location in Amersfoort and every other week 1 day in Rotterdam.
• Start: December 1, 2026
• Collaboration with passionate colleagues.
• Ample room for personal input and development.
• The opportunity to contribute to the future of the Dutch energy network.

Project details

• Start: 2026-11-30T23:00:00
• Location: Amersfoort Utrecht, NL
• Languages: Dutch