Our customer is a large financial player based in Brussels and operating worldwide. You will support a division that plans, builds, and runs the global infrastructure and is additionally responsible for the IT service management to the operating entities of the various Group markets. We are currently looking for an experienced project leader / program manager / Epic/Theme Enabler to strengthen its team.

Concretely, we are looking for an experienced project and or program manager able to work in a hybrid environment (partly agile partly waterfall) experienced or should have been successfully exposed to:

-            Security & Network area in a financial environment

-            CMDB implementation or optimisation

-            Kafka implementation experience

Your part of the deal:

You will join the Epic Enablement team and will be accountable for the delivery of end-to-end infrastructure projects business market needs as well as technical product evolutions. 

Your overall responsibility of the Epic or theme (program equivalent) includes:

• Build the business case (Epic Investment Request) with the help of the Business Owner/Epic Owners
• Define the benefits, scope (MVPs and increment), timing and budget of the project
• Deliver the project scope on time (managing risk-issue-change request), on budget and with the expected quality
• Ensure quality of deliverables and delivered services through a structured project / EPIC or set of EPICS management approach (project planning tools, project reporting, project management methodology, project risks management, IT control, etc) (adapted to agile methodology)
• Collaborate with teams across various divisions, entities, and locations
• Coordinate all parties involved in the project: both inside the organization (Infrastructure, Security, Software Development, Operations, Risk, Audit, etc) and externally (for example IT suppliers or clients)
• Maintain compliance with architecture principles, production acceptance criteria and recommendations
• Hand over the finalized project to the maintenance and operational teams

On top of the delivery of the projects, you will also contribute to the Agile transformation that the team and the division started in 2020.

Opportunities to broaden your expertise will be offered by participating to different projects with different profiles and different level of complexity. You will also benefit from the support of our most senior PL’s. 

Your Profile:

• You already have 10+ years of proven Project/Program Management experience in an IT infrastructure delivery environment.
• You are experienced in managing end to end several projects or features in parallel with size varying from 50 to 3,000 man-days.
• You have demonstrated through your career strong leadership skills with the ability as well to adapt your style according to the context and the different project stakeholders.
• These projects were managed according to one of the industry standard methodologies Agile@Scale. Waterfall experience is a plus.
• Your responsibilities encompassed the different aspects of these ones (Planning, Budgets, Risks & Issues, Resources management). Previous experience of outsourced projects management is a plus.
• You naturally have strong negotiation and conflict management skills, and you can influence different levels of management towards your project’s targets.
• You are fluent in English and have excellent communication skills (listening, writing, and presenting) at all levels, from staff members to senior management level.
• You have a natural affinity with the technical domains and experienced at least 3 of them in your experience (e.g., Network LAN/WAN, Cyber-Security, Windows, Unix/Linux, Mainframe or Tandem). This allows you to understand the IT infrastructures & architectures in a complex environment and to synthesize the situation in an understandable way for different audiences.