Domain Delivery Lead - Access & Stay - SPF FOD
Description
The Immigration Office is transforming its digital working environment through the eMigration programme. The programme aims to modernise business applications and strengthen collaboration between teams. It is building the foundations for a more integrated, agile and future oriented IT environment. This Access & Stay delivery role sits within the General Directorate of the Immigration Office.
The Domain Delivery Lead brings several agile squads together around a shared vision and business priorities. The role combines project leadership with servant leadership, developing team autonomy, expertise and delivery capability. Responsibilities cover planning, dependencies, domain rituals, obstacles, coaching, changes, reporting, escalation, suppliers and budgets. Collaboration spans multidisciplinary teams, business stakeholders and IT.
The assignment offers room to propose new approaches, challenge existing practices and shape future processes and solutions. Applicants need at least ten years in a similar function, five years of Agile, and ten years each in complex stakeholder digitalisation projects and project team leadership. Dutch or French is required at native level; the narrative requests good English although the portal calls it nice to have. The full time hybrid assignment in Brussels lists 7 December 2026 to 7 March 2027, while the description asks for a start as soon as possible after selection.
Top Reasons to Apply
Shape public digital transformation
Lead multiple agile squads
Influence strategic business applications
Develop autonomous capable teams
Propose new working approaches
Detailed Responsibilities and Skills
Additional Responsibilities
- Escalate significant changes or problems correctly and promptly when acceptable tolerance thresholds are exceeded.
- Manage supplier follow-up, engaging suppliers as genuine partners.
- Manage project budgets.
General skills
- Ability to 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 while removing administrative or organisational obstacles.
- Navigate a complex public ecosystem including cabinets, general directorates and external partners, reconciling divergent interests.
- Solid experience bridging business and IT, for example as senior Product Owner, Business Relationship Manager or programme director, with nontechnical communication central to success.
- Experience leading large multidisciplinary teams distributed across 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, governance and delivery practices.
- Significant experience leading large IT projects involving multiple stakeholders and crosscutting dependencies.
- Proven experience optimising and reengineering business processes.
- Master change management principles and challenges in organisational and digital transformation.
- Knowledge of application management and understanding of application lifecycle, maintenance and evolution challenges.
- Structure, plan and prioritise activities against strategic objectives, business needs and delivery capacity.
- Excellent analysis, synthesis and problem solving; identify risks, dependencies and improvement levers.
- Coordinate several teams and foster effective collaboration between IT, business stakeholders and other actors.
- Influence and mobilise without relying on hierarchical authority.
- Excellent communication and active listening; adapt messages to teams, business, management and suppliers.
- Show empathy and emotional intelligence and create psychological safety so everyone can speak.
- Handle tensions and conflicts diplomatically and negotiate mutually acceptable solutions.
- Act as facilitator and coach to help teams and individuals progress.
- Stay calm, resilient and solution oriented under pressure; embrace adaptation and continuous learning.
- Act with integrity and transparency and lead by example.
- Be Dutch speaking or French speaking; portal specifies Native, with either language accepted.
- Good knowledge of English in the narrative; portal language field instead says Nice to have. Preserve the conflict for confirmation.
- Confirmed Agile Delivery Manager role experience, most recently this year.
- New ideas, creativity and thinking outside established approaches are particularly appreciated.
Technical skills
- At least 5 years of Agile experience.
- 10 years of project experience involving complex stakeholder management in a digitalisation project.
- 10 years of project team leadership.
- Confirmed agile team coordination, most recently this year.
- Expert complex stakeholder management, most recently this year.
- Expert IT Governance Framework skills, most recently this year.
- Expert project leadership, most recently this year.