About this role
Responsibilities
- Unite multiple agile squads around common objectives and ensure alignment between business priorities and delivery teams.
- Foster team autonomy through servant leadership, providing a clear framework while empowering teams to make decisions.
- Coordinate global planning, manage inter-team dependencies, and arbitrate priorities transparently.
- Facilitate domain rituals including synchronization meetings, reviews, and retrospectives to promote best practices.
- Identify and remove obstacles hindering team progress by facilitating collaboration across business and IT units.
- Manage project change requests and report progress, risks, and difficulties to relevant governance bodies.
- Oversee budget management and maintain strong partnerships with external suppliers.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in project leadership and complex stakeholder management within large-scale digitalization projects.
- 10+ years of experience in business-IT interface roles such as senior Product Owner or Program Director.
- 5+ years of experience with Agile and iterative project delivery methodologies.
- Proven experience in budget management, resource allocation, and business process reengineering.
- Advanced mastery of Azure DevOps , including work item hierarchies, delivery plans, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Expertise in solution architecture, integration patterns ( API , messaging ), and Azure cloud infrastructure.
- Strong knowledge of security and compliance frameworks including NIS2 and GDPR . Professional certifications in Scrum and ITIL . Proactive leader with excellent diplomatic, coaching, and communication skills.
- You are native in Dutch or French with a good knowledge of English . Nice to Haves Possession of Microsoft Azure certification.
- Knowledge of large-scale European IT systems and biometric integration.
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and observability.
- Basic knowledge of KQL or OData for data extraction.
- Understanding of Camunda workflow engines.