IT Team Lead Service (Senior) - ELIA
Description
Elia Group is seeking an IT Team Leader & Transition Manager to join its IT Architecture team in Brussels. The consultant will guide and support Solution Architects in planning, methodology and delivery excellence. The role also participates in the Enterprise Architecture team. The assignment supports Elia Group’s work on reliable and sustainable electricity infrastructure in Belgium and Germany.
A central objective is to manage an internal reorganization that merges the Architecture and Product teams into a single operating model within three months. The consultant will define governance and decision-making with the existing team and Enterprise Architect, clarify interfaces, and drive the transition plan. The role must remove organizational, process and stakeholder blockers while preserving delivery continuity. Building trust, collaboration, momentum and team cohesion is essential to making the merged organization effective and self-sustaining.
The consultant will also lead Solution Architecture operations across digital initiatives. Responsibilities include workforce and request management, SciForma PPM assignments, steering-group participation, standardized deliverables, quality controls, operational follow-up and problem management. The role requires more than ten years of transition and project management experience plus broad architecture-methodology knowledge. Merger/transformation experience, agile IT product delivery and Energy & Utilities experience are advantages.
Top Reasons to Apply
Lead energy transition
Shape operating model
Drive architecture transformation
Develop architecture expertise
Innovation and collaboration
Detailed Responsibilities and Skills
Additional Responsibilities
- Ensure merged organization sustainability
- Provide leadership progress updates
- Provide pragmatic execution recommendations
- Manage solution architect workforce
- Manage requests PPM assignments
- Serve IT architecture steering
- Standardize deliverables quality controls
- Monitor solution architecture operations
- Manage alerts and problems
- Facilitate operational vision translation
- Establish architecture operating model
General skills
- More than 10 years of experience in transition management and project management.
- Dynamic profile able to work autonomously and take initiative when engaging with people at all levels.
- Result-oriented approach.
- Team player with a strong collaboration focus.
- Very good presentation skills.
- Good level of Dutch and/or French is required.
- Good level of English is required.
- For non-EU candidates working in Belgium: possess a work permit allowing work in Belgium.
- For non-EU candidates working in Belgium: hold a valid residence permit confirming the right of residence in Belgium.
Technical skills
- Experience in IT processes and methodologies.
- Experience using ITIL.
- Experience using TOGAF.
- Experience using ArchiMate.
- Experience using Domain Driven Design.
- Experience with cloud-native architecture patterns.
- Ability to advocate reference architectures.
- Familiarity with Microservices architectures.
- Familiarity with Event-driven architectures.
- Familiarity with Gartner Architecture Frameworks, such as TIME for APM.
- Experience with merger situations and subsequent transformations is a plus.
- Notable real-world experience architecting, designing and delivering IT products in an agile environment is a plus.
- Experience in the Energy & Utilities sector is an asset.
Tools
- Experience with modeling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect or similar tools.
- Use SciForma, the Project and Portfolio Management tool, for assignments and workforce/request management.