Senior Project Manager Transverse Platform Engineering

Job Title: Senior Project Manager Transverse Platform Engineering

Duration: ASAP - 31/03/2027

Location: Brussels, Belgium (Hybrid, 2 days/week onsite)

Languages: English, Dutch & French

Job Description - Roles and Responsibilities

Background

• The Platform Engineering division provides development teams with a set of shared platforms, products and services to accelerate application delivery while ensuring security, standardization and operational efficiency.

The division covers areas such as:

• Community Cloud (G Cloud) and Public Cloud
• CI/CD and Software Factory
• Databases and DBaaS
• Middleware (API Gateway, Messaging, Load Balancing, Routing, WAF, etc.)
• Observability Platform
• Developer Tools and Services

Mission

• In a context of rapid technological change, growth in the service portfolio and multiplication of strategic initiatives, the cross-functional project manager manages strategic projects and programs involving several Platform Engineering teams. He coordinates the technical teams, department heads, architects and management to ensure the consistency of initiatives, their alignment with the division's priorities and the visibility of their progress.

As such, he/she:

• Manages complex cross-functional projects involving several teams
• Coordinates the dependencies and contributions of different stakeholders
• Monitors schedules, risks, actions and decisions
• prepares reports for management
• Contributes to the definition and monitoring of roadmaps
• Facilitates communication between teams and with internal customers
• ensures alignment of initiatives with the division's strategy

Desired profile

• Experience in managing complex projects or cross-functional programs.
• Ability to work with multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Excellent coordination, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• General understanding of cloud, platform, DevOps, and infrastructure environments.
• Ability to structure, prioritize and advance multiple initiatives in parallel.
• Autonomy, initiative and results-oriented.
• Jira and Confluence Mastery; knowledge of ITIL and PRINCE2
• French- or Dutch-speaking with an active knowledge of the other national language
• Priority projects
• Platform Security
• Drive a common security roadmap across all platforms in the division, from definition to execution, to harmonize practices and accelerate adoption of standards.

Main themes:

• Secrets Management (Vault)
• Access and privilege management
• Data and Communications Encryption
• Certificate Management
• Auditability

Adopting the Public Cloud

Support the transition to the public cloud by coordinating cross-team initiatives.

Main responsibilities:

• Track team onboarding
• ensure consistency in technical choices
• Identify support and training needs
• consolidate organizational, technical and operational impacts.

CI/CD Program

• Lead the CI/CD program with technical managers and architects, monitor its progress and promote the adoption of modern development practices.
• Strengthening the autonomy of Business Units
• Coordinate and prioritize changes that strengthen the autonomy of development teams, while ensuring visibility of progress and compliance with standards, governance and shared platforms.

Platform Services Portfolio Management

• Contribute to the structuring and management of the division's portfolio of platform services.

Main activities:

• Roadmap monitoring;
• Coordination of dependencies;
• Consolidated visibility of initiatives;
• Improved communication with internal customers.
• Alignment of projects with the division's strategy.

Skills

• Agile
• API GATEWAY
• CI/CD & Build Automation, including Jenkins
• Cloud architecture (Kubernetes, Openshift, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud,...)
• Database
• Management of identities, secrets, certificates
• ITIL
• Jira
• Middleware technologies
• Portfolio & Project Management
• Prince 2
• Privileged Access Management
• Security best practices
• Security frameworks (such as CyFun, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CIS Controls, ..) and gap analyses
• SLA
• Vault Secret Store