Technology and Platform Solution Lead

JOB TITLE: TECHNOLOGY AND PLATFORM SOLUTION LEAD

LOCATION: ANDERLECHT, BELGIUM

DURATION: ASAP - END OF 2027

LANGUAGES: DUTCH OR FRENCH AND ENGLISH

WORK REGIME: 100% (FULL-TIME AND HYBRID 2(OR)3 DAYS ONSITE)

JOB DESCRIPTION

ROLE OVERVIEW:

• Own the Talent technology platforms from strategy and architecture through delivery, operation and continuous evolution. The role defines the target architecture and connections with SAP SuccessFactors, guides operational enhancements, and ensures that platform evolution, project delivery and day-to-day operations remain aligned, secure, scalable, and supportable.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define and maintain the technical roadmap and platform priorities.
• Define the target architecture for Talent solutions and design the required connections with SAP SuccessFactors.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, supportable, reusable and aligned with enterprise architecture and technology standards.
• Ensure clear operational ownership, support models, documentation, lifecycle management and technical debt follow-up.
• Coordinate platform assessments and drive remediation of control, audit, security, resilience and obsolescence risks.
• Turn roadmap priorities into solution options, delivery plans, milestones and actionable backlogs.
• Provide technology leadership from requirements and design through build, testing, deployment, stabilization and handover.
• Coordinate internal Digital Technology teams, SAP and delivery partners such as Flexso and IBM.
• Prepare decisions, communicate status transparently and escalate blockers with clear options and recommendations.
• Maintain an end-to-end view of platform health, roadmap progress, delivery status, resource needs, dependencies and upcoming decisions.
• Ensure compliance with architecture, security, privacy, artificial intelligence, data and change governance requirements.

REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• 7+ years in technology platform ownership, solution leadership, enterprise architecture, technology delivery or a comparable role.
• Proven experience shaping and evolving complex enterprise platforms and software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions.
• Experience in HR technology or SAP SuccessFactors is mandatory.
• Strong understanding of enterprise integrations, APIs, middleware, identity and access, data flows and cloud services.
• Able to design target architectures and integration patterns and guide detailed solution-design decisions.

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Knowledge of SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Integration Suite and related Talent technology ecosystems is strongly preferred.
• Platform & roadmap leadership
• Proven ability to define platform roadmaps, prioritize investments and guide operational enhancements.
• Strong capability in platform lifecycle management, technical-risk assessment, architecture governance and technical-debt management.
• Able to combine strategic direction with pragmatic ownership and follow-through.

COMMUNICATION & WAYS OF WORKING:

• Communicator who can move confidently between business, functional and technical discussions.
• Able to coordinate multiple internal teams, providers and vendors and independently drive decisions to completion
• Structured, collaborative and proactive, with strong ownership, sound judgment and stakeholder orientation.