Senior Project Manager transverse Platform engineering - Smals
Description
Platform Engineering supplies shared platforms, products and services to development teams. Its purpose is to accelerate application delivery while maintaining security, standardisation and operational efficiency. The environment covers Community Cloud and Public Cloud, CI/CD, databases, middleware, observability and developer services. The service portfolio and number of strategic initiatives are growing.
The senior project manager leads complex projects and strategic programmes across several Platform Engineering teams. The assignment brings together technical teams, service owners, architects and management. It covers dependencies, schedules, risks, actions, decisions and management reporting. The manager also contributes to roadmaps, internal communication and alignment with division priorities.
Priority initiatives cover platform security, Public Cloud adoption, CI/CD, Business Unit autonomy and the platform service portfolio. The profile combines complex project leadership with general cloud, platform, DevOps and infrastructure understanding. Jira and Confluence proficiency, ITIL and PRINCE2 knowledge, and the separately listed skill levels are requested. The assignment is full time and hybrid in Brussels, with at least two office days each week. The CV must contain a concise summary of the principles and good practices used to manage technical projects successfully.
Top Reasons to Apply
Strategic platform leadership
Public Cloud transformation
Cross-team programme impact
Security roadmap ownership
Modern CI/CD adoption
Detailed Responsibilities and Skills
Additional Responsibilities
- Harmonise platform security practices
- Accelerate security standards adoption
- Coordinate cross-team Public Cloud transition
- Track team onboarding
- Ensure technical choice consistency
- Identify support and training needs
- Consolidate organisational, technical and operational impacts
- Lead CI/CD programme with technical owners and architects
- Monitor CI/CD programme progress
- Promote modern development practices
- Coordinate and prioritise developer autonomy improvements
- Ensure developer autonomy progress visibility
- Ensure compliance with standards, governance and shared platforms
- Structure and steer platform services portfolio
- Track service portfolio roadmaps
- Coordinate service portfolio dependencies
- Consolidate service initiative visibility
- Improve internal client communication
- Align portfolio projects with divisional strategy
General skills
- Experience managing complex projects or cross-functional programmes.
- Ability to work with multidisciplinary technical teams.
- Excellent coordination skills.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills.
- General understanding of cloud environments.
- General understanding of platform environments.
- General understanding of DevOps environments.
- General understanding of infrastructure environments.
- Ability to structure multiple initiatives in parallel.
- Ability to prioritise multiple initiatives in parallel.
- Ability to advance multiple initiatives in parallel.
- Autonomy.
- Initiative.
- Results orientation.
- Proficiency in Jira.
- Proficiency in Confluence.
- Knowledge of ITIL.
- Knowledge of PRINCE2; the separate skills table specifies Expert level.
- French-speaking or Dutch-speaking, with active knowledge of the other national language.
- IT Project Manager: Expert; most recent experience: Any time.
- Full-time assignment.
- Minimum two days per week in the office; up to three days teleworking.
- The CV must include a concise summary of the principles and good practices applied to successful technical project management.
- Dutch: active knowledge (Languages table).
- English: active knowledge (Languages table).
- French: active knowledge (Languages table).
Technical skills
- Agile: Expert level; most recent experience: Any time.
- API GATEWAY: Confirmed level; most recent experience: Any time.
- CI/CD & Build Automation, including Jenkins: Confirmed level; most recent experience: Any time.
- cloud architecture (Kubernetes, Openshift, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud,...): Confirmed level; most recent experience: Any time.
- Database: Confirmed level; most recent experience: Any time.
- Gestion des identités, secrets, certificats: Confirmed level; most recent experience: Any time.
- ITIL: Confirmed level; most recent experience: Any time.
- JIRA: Confirmed level; most recent experience: Any time.
- Middleware technologies: Confirmed level; most recent experience: Any time.
- Portfolio & Project Management: Confirmed level; most recent experience: Any time.
- Prince 2: Expert level; most recent experience: Any time.
- Privileged Access Management: Confirmed level; most recent experience: Any time.
- Security best practices: Confirmed level; most recent experience: Any time.
- securityframeworks (zoals CyFun, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CIS Controls, ..) en gap-analyses: Confirmed level; most recent experience: Any time.
- SLA: Confirmed level; most recent experience: Any time.
- Vault Secret Store: Confirmed level; most recent experience: Any time.
Tools
- Jira and Confluence proficiency.
- Jenkins is included in the CI/CD and build automation skill.
- Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud are examples in the cloud architecture skill; the vacancy does not separately require each example.
- Vault Secret Store: Confirmed; most recent experience: Any time.