Domain Delivery Lead - Transversal - SPF FOD

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.