Digital Business Partner

Altia is a high-value digital transformation services company that has undertaken, changed, and reformulated international projects for nearly a thousand clients, leaders in their sectors, who have understood that their businesses can be revolutionized through digitalization. Over its 30 years of experience, it has proven to be a robust company with a future, a capacity for innovation, and adaptability.

Are you passionate about leading strategic projects in an international environment and contributing to high-impact European initiatives?

📍 Location: Mainly remote (far-site), with possible occasional on-site presence in Brussels.

🌍 Environment: European Institutions and international stakeholders.

The role combines advisory, IT governance and digital transformation responsibilities, including:

• Supporting business and policy units throughout the full digital solution lifecycle.
• Providing advice on digital-ready policy and legislation, digital checks and interoperability.
• Reviewing IT governance artefacts: Project Initiation Requests, Business Cases, Project Charters and Architecture Overviews.
• Preparing documentation and materials for governance and decision-making bodies, including the ITCB.
• Monitoring external IT suppliers, contractual compliance, SLAs, quality, risks, planning and KPIs.
• Coordinating between business/policy stakeholders and technical teams.
• Delivering training and awareness activities on IT governance and the PM² methodology.
  
  

Minimum Requirements

✅ Must-Have Requirements:

• EQF Level 7 qualification (Master’s degree or equivalent) and at least 10 years of professional IT experience; or EQF Level 6 degree (bachelor’s degree) and at least 12 years; or secondary education giving access to higher education and at least 17 years of IT experience.
• English proficiency C1 level or higher.
• At least 7 years of professional experience in public-sector IT governance.
• At least 5 years in a PMO or project-support role, including advisory, monitoring, planning and risk management.
• At least 5 years monitoring and controlling third-party delivery against contracts, SLAs, formal obligations or milestones.
• At least 4 years of IT experience in transport and/or energy.
• At least 2 years identifying digital components in legislative or policy proposals within EU or Member State institutions.
• The specific expertise and experience must have been acquired within the last 12 years.
  
  

Mandatory certifications: at least one certification in each of the following areas:

• Project management: PM², PMP or PRINCE2.
• Programme management: PgMP, MSP or SAFe Lean Portfolio Manager.
• Agile: PM²-Agile, PMI-ACP, ScrumMaster, Professional Scrum Master or SAFe Agilist.
  
  

Required knowledge

• IT governance in public-sector environments and coordination of decision-making bodies.
• PM², Agile and Waterfall approaches, planning, reporting, risk management, feasibility studies and cost-benefit analysis.
• External IT supplier oversight, contractual/SLA compliance and quality assurance.
• Interoperability, particularly for cross-border digital public services; experience with the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) is desirable.
• EU energy and transport policies, the Interoperable Europe Act and digital-ready legal drafting.
• Stakeholder management and the ability to explain technology-related matters to non-technical stakeholders.
• Project and collaboration tools such as Jira, Microsoft Project and Confluence.
• Added value: familiarity with PM², ITCB, GovIS, iCoCo, DECIDE, GoPro, EdiT and ARES.
  
  

The candidate must be security clearable or already hold an EU-27 security clearance.

📩 If you meet the requirements and are looking for your next challenge in a European project environment, we would love to hear from you.

The present job offer is drafted taking into account impartiality and non-discrimination on the grounds of gender, race, ideology, or any other reason. Especially, it takes into account the respect for the current regulations regarding gender equality between women and men (Royal Decree-Law 6/2019).