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Domain Delivery Lead - Transversal - SPF FOD

Customer: SPF Intérieur - FOD Binnenlandse Zaken Rue de Louvain 1 1000 Bruxelles Belgium
Dates: 2026-12-07 — 2027-03-07
Arrangements: Full-time; hybrid. Start after completion of the selection procedure; administrative dates specify 07/12/2026–07/03/2027.
Apply before: 2026-11-08
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Description

The Immigration Office is transforming its digital workplace through the eMigration programme. The programme modernizes business applications, strengthens collaboration and builds an integrated, agile IT environment. The Domain Delivery Lead works within the Directorate-General and guides strategic application delivery across several squads.

The lead unites teams around shared business priorities and creates the conditions for autonomy. Responsibilities cover global planning, dependencies, domain ceremonies, obstacle removal and coaching. The assignment also includes change requests, transparent reporting, escalation, supplier partnerships and budget management.

The profile combines at least 10 years in a similar function with strong agile, governance and technical delivery knowledge. Scrum and ITIL certifications are required, while Microsoft Azure certification is preferred. The assignment is full-time and hybrid in Brussels for three months, with administrative dates from 7 December 2026 to 7 March 2027. The narrative requests a start as soon as possible after selection, which should be reconciled with the administrative dates.

Top Reasons to Apply
Shape public digital transformation
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Empower multiple agile squads
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Modernize strategic business applications
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Influence future working methods
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Hybrid Brussels assignment
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Responsibilities
Unite agile squads, aligning their common vision and objectives with business priorities.
Enable team autonomy through a clear framework, decentralized decisions and maturity development through servant leadership.
Plan global delivery with teams, coordinate dependencies and arbitrate priorities transparently.
Facilitate domain ceremonies, including cross-team synchronization, reviews and retrospectives, sharing good practices and learning.
Remove delivery obstacles by facilitating collaboration with other teams, business and IT.
Coach people, exchange feedback and cultivate trust, transparency and continuous improvement.
Manage project changes in consultation with stakeholders.
Report project progress regularly to relevant bodies, transparently addressing risks and difficulties.
Must Have
Accessible influential IT communication
Strategic roadmap delivery alignment
Autonomous squad servant leadership
Public ecosystem stakeholder management
Business IT bridging experience
Large multidisciplinary team management
Public budget capacity management
Solution architecture integration understanding
Nice to Have
European systems architecture knowledge
Microsoft Azure professional certification
Current Microsoft Azure certification

Detailed Responsibilities and Skills

Additional Responsibilities

  • Escalate significant changes or problems correctly and promptly when acceptable tolerance thresholds are exceeded.
  • Manage supplier follow-up by involving suppliers as genuine partners.
  • Manage project budgets.

General skills

  • Translate complex IT concepts into simple, accessible business language.
  • Translate political vision and business needs into an operational roadmap and clear delivery priorities.
  • Guide, inspire and empower squads; remove administrative and organizational obstacles.
  • Navigate cabinets, directorates-general and external partners in a complex public ecosystem, reconciling divergent interests.
  • Solid experience bridging business and IT, for example as a senior Product Owner, Business Relationship Manager or programme director, with nontechnical communication as a key success factor.
  • Experience leading large multidisciplinary teams organized into several autonomous teams or squads.
  • Experience allocating resources and managing budgets within public budget envelopes.
  • At least 10 years in a similar function, with proven coordination and leadership of multiple teams.
  • Master agile and iterative IT project methods and their implementation in complex environments.
  • Solid knowledge of project management methodologies and governance and delivery practices.
  • Significant experience leading large IT projects with multiple stakeholders and cross-cutting dependencies.
  • Proven business process optimization and reengineering experience.
  • Master change management principles and challenges in organizational and digital transformation.
  • Structure, plan and prioritize activities according to strategic objectives, business needs and delivery capacity.
  • Excellent analysis, synthesis and problem solving; identify risks, dependencies and improvement opportunities.
  • Coordinate multiple teams and effective collaboration between IT, business stakeholders and other actors.
  • Influence and mobilize without hierarchical authority.
  • Excellent communication and active listening; adapt messages to teams, business, management and suppliers.
  • Show empathy and emotional intelligence; create psychological safety so everyone can speak up.
  • Handle tensions and conflicts diplomatically; negotiate mutually acceptable solutions.
  • Facilitate and coach teams and individuals to progress.
  • Stay calm, resilient and solution-oriented under pressure; remain open to adaptation and continuous learning.
  • Act with integrity and transparency and lead by example.
  • Dutch-speaking or French-speaking; platform specifies native level. Either language is sufficient.
  • Good English is requested in the narrative. Platform language field instead marks English Nice to have; confirm intended priority.
  • Scrum certification required; no particular credential or issuer specified.
  • ITIL certification required; no level or version specified.
  • Platform role: Agile Delivery Manager, confirmed level, most recent experience this year (2026).

Technical skills

  • Manage dependencies and critical paths; understand API, messaging and batch integration patterns, interface contracts, versioning, reference data and workflow-engine scope, for example Camunda.
  • Understand DTAP strategy, coordinate cross-team releases, plan cutovers and rollbacks, and define end-to-end testing strategy.
  • Understand Azure Landing Zone, identity and access management with Entra ID, RBAC and PIM, Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code and basic FinOps.
  • Understand NIS2, public-sector GDPR especially biometric data, nonfunctional requirements including RPO/RTO, retention and logging, and formal risk acceptance.
  • Understand CDC and ETL flows to the data platform; manage data migration as a separate workstream.
  • Knowledge of large-scale European IT systems, biometric integration, observability and enterprise architecture frameworks; basic KQL or OData for extracting monitoring data.
  • Knowledge of application management, lifecycle, maintenance and evolution.
  • Microsoft Azure certification is desirable; no particular credential specified.
  • At least 5 years of Agile experience.
  • 10 years of project experience with complex stakeholder management in a digitalization project.
  • 10 years of project team leadership.
  • Agile Team Coordination at confirmed level, most recent experience this year (2026).
  • Complex Stakeholder Management at expert level, most recent experience this year (2026).
  • IT Governance Framework at expert level, most recent experience this year (2026).
  • ITIL at confirmed level, most recent experience this year (2026).
  • Project Leadership at expert level, most recent experience this year (2026).
  • SCRUM at confirmed level, most recent experience this year (2026).
  • Microsoft Azure certification desirable; platform requests most recent experience this year (2026).

Tools

  • Advanced Azure DevOps: work-item hierarchies, Delivery Plans, dependencies and reporting; understand CI/CD pipelines and branching strategies.