Solution Lead (Senior) - ELIA
Description
Elia Group supports a reliable and sustainable electricity supply through Elia Belgium and 50Hertz in Germany. This assignment joins the Geospatial Product Team in the Grid Solutions IT landscape. The IT Solution Lead acts as the technical reference for strategic software products and platforms. The solutions support critical asset management activities and the energy transition.
The role bridges business needs and technology through functional and technical specifications, solution architecture, integration, and implementation. It covers the design, maintenance, and continuous improvement of custom-built and commercial software. The technical scope includes enterprise GIS, the Esri ArcGIS ecosystem, FME, Microsoft technologies, and modern cloud platforms. Solutions must be scalable, secure, future-proof, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards and business objectives.
The consultant collaborates with Product Owners, Solution Architects, developers, testers, Scrum Masters, suppliers, and business stakeholders. Responsibilities extend to operational support, supplier performance, product roadmaps, licensing, and service-level agreements. The assignment runs from 23 November 2026 to 31 December 2027 in Schaerbeek, with extension possible. Elia’s remote work policy applies, and the company highlights well-being, diversity, inclusion, innovation, and knowledge sharing.
Top Reasons to Apply
Shape energy transition
Lead strategic GIS
Develop technical expertise
Collaborate across disciplines
Positive work culture
Detailed Responsibilities and Skills
Additional Responsibilities
- Perform fit-gap analyses and contribute to technical evaluations, RFI/RFP processes, and software selection.
- Support incident, problem, and maintenance management through supplier monitoring, SLA/KPI performance monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Contribute to product roadmaps, supplier management, license discussions, and SLA definition with the Product Owner.
General skills
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent through experience.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- Comfortable working in multidisciplinary teams.
- Comfortable engaging with both business and technical stakeholders.
- Proactive working approach.
- Autonomous working approach.
- Customer-focused working approach.
- Collaborative working approach.
- Fluent in Dutch and/or French; at least one of these languages is required.
- Strong command of English.
- For non-EU consultants working in Belgium: possess a work permit allowing work in Belgium.
- For non-EU consultants working in Belgium: hold a valid residence permit confirming the right of residence in Belgium.
- Experience within the electricity sector is considered a plus.
Technical skills
- Proven experience in software development, software integration, and/or solution management.
- Proven hands-on expertise in designing, integrating, and operating enterprise GIS solutions.
- Proven experience creating functional designs.
- Proven experience in data modelling.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with fit-gap analyses.
- Experience with requirements definition.
- Experience with software selection processes.
- Solid understanding of software architecture principles.
- Solid understanding of security standards.
- Solid understanding of compliance requirements.
- Solid understanding of IT service management processes.
Tools
- Strong practical experience across Esri ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Pro, and relevant APIs/SDKs.
- Strong practical experience with complementary geospatial data-integration tooling such as Safe Software FME for spatial data transformation, automation, and interoperability.
- Good understanding of Microsoft technologies such as .NET, Visual Studio, and SQL Server.
- Hands-on experience with modern cloud technologies, including Microsoft Azure.
- Hands-on experience with containerization technologies, for example Docker.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
- Experience with Vertigis products such as Vertigis Studio and Vertigis Integrator is considered a plus.