Program Manager (Expert) - Federale Politie - Police

Detailed Responsibilities and Skills

Additional Responsibilities

• Lead heterogeneous teams maintaining legacy applications, building new solutions and managing systems, networks, storage and DevOps.
• Work with the steering committee on key technical and management decisions.
• Report directly to the head of the DGJ IT Factory.
• Assess existing legacy applications and suggest technical measures to stabilize components.
• Supervise migration of functionalities from other solutions into the legacy Windows thick-client application, ensuring compatibility with its technology stack.
• Supervise integration of migrated functionalities with other application modules and external systems collecting or receiving data.
• Ensure legacy application compatibility with future Windows versions and stable runtime behavior.
• Supervise analysis of the new solution and actively contribute to its technical dimension.
• Lead teams implementing the new responsive web solution.
• Supervise backend and frontend development, including unit and integration test implementation.
• Ensure correct source-code versioning and team-produced technical documentation.
• Oversee DevOps and deployment pipelines for applications, services and infrastructure as code.
• Lead infrastructure, network, systems, continuous integration and deployment teams.

General skills

• Hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science.
• Several years of software development experience, including technical positions; exact minimum not quantified.
• Experience in a similar function.
• Master the technologies listed in the vacancy.
• Demonstrate leadership and unite technical, steering and customer stakeholders.
• Build a stakeholder network quickly.
• Demonstrate empathy and firmness when needed.
• Adapt management style to individuals and heterogeneous profiles.
• Assess team members’ skills and capabilities to allocate the right task to the right person.
• Manage priorities to meet deadlines and adapt to unforeseen events or estimation difficulties.
• Manage complex projects using Agile, especially Scrum, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, Review and Retrospective.
• Master English; portal requires active knowledge.
• Master one of Dutch or French. Portal instead lists active Dutch and active French.
• Active knowledge of one national language and at least passive knowledge of the other is a genuine advantage; portal lists both active.
• Knowledge of the Police environment, especially the Federal Judicial Police, is a significant asset.
• Align heterogeneous profiles around a common objective.
• Stay focused and persevere despite major difficulties.
• Defuse tensions, maintain a constructive atmosphere under pressure, and regulate interactions between stakeholders and the team.
• Anticipate issues and initiate project dynamics without seeking systematic validation.
• Identify critical tasks, maintain a long-term view and reorganize work as unexpected events or new information arise.
• Prioritize real field needs and user experience.
• Communicate fluently at the right time and level; explain technical concepts to nontechnical people.
• Integrate technical, human, organizational and political dimensions in decisions.
• Identify root causes beyond symptoms.
• Expert IT Program Manager; most recent experience: any time.
• Portal: Dutch, active knowledge. Narrative requires only one national language and prefers passive knowledge of the other.
• Portal: French, active knowledge. Narrative requires only one national language and prefers passive knowledge of the other.

Technical skills

• Good knowledge of .NET (C#) applied to microservices; portal development bundle requires Expert.
• Be comfortable with REST APIs or gRPC.
• Be comfortable with event-driven approaches; portal architecture bundle requires Expert.
• Knowledge of SPA web development using a microfrontend architecture.
• Master OpenID Connect and O365 authentication for backend services and frontend applications; portal: Confirmed.
• Confirmed experience with CI/CD and deployment pipelines in GitLab; portal DevOps bundle: Expert.
• Master Git, branches, pull requests and code reviews.
• IaC experience is a significant advantage in the narrative, but included in the Expert DevOps portal bundle.
• Knowledge of Delphi and Windows application development is a significant advantage.
• Knowledge of cryptography is an advantage.
• Experience modernizing thick-client applications into modern web applications, including support for the user transition; portal: Junior.
• Cybersecurity expertise and secure-by-design implementation; portal cybersecurity skill is Junior.
• Good software modelling skills in UML and BPMN; portal: Expert.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana or Prometheus; portal lists grafana, prometheus at Confirmed level.
• Microservices, Angular microfrontends and event-driven architecture; portal: Expert.
• Development using .NET (C#), Angular, HTML and CSS; portal: Expert.
• Unit and integration testing.
• Relational databases, specifically PostgreSQL.
• GitLab, CI/CD, Kubernetes, IaC and Linux; portal: Expert. IaC priority conflicts with the narrative’s preference.
• Expert management of complex programs involving multiple projects and stakeholders; most recent experience: any time.
• Team management: portal Junior level, most recent experience any time; narrative emphasizes substantial technical team leadership.

Tools

• .NET
• C#
• Angular
• HTML
• CSS
• GitLab
• Git
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• OpenID Connect
• O365
• PostgreSQL
• Delphi
• Windows