AISB 1099 - Senior Project Leader

Abakus IT-Solutions; Brussel Hoofdstad; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Abakus IT-Solutions seeks a Project Leader to drive the operational management of a complex IT HR project with multiple institutions and stakeholders. You will coordinate delivery across teams, manage scope, budgets, planning, and quality, and report to senior leadership on progress and risks.

You will lead a decentralised project team, translate high-level scope into actionable plans, ensure governance and milestones are met, and foster collaboration across organisations in a

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading complex IT projects, ideally in a .NET technical environment.
• Experience with projects involving multiple stakeholders with differing interests and priorities.
• Experience managing stakeholders in a government or large-enterprise context (mandatory).

Responsibilities

• Manage scope, planning, development budget and resources, as well as risks, dependencies and quality
• Prepare budgets together with the Chain Project Leader
• Build plannings that take into account task allocation, workload, priorities, budgets and quality expectations
• Adjust the planning as circumstances change
• Monitor the budget and flag any overrun in good time
• Ensure compliance with applicable quality standards and methodologies
• Contribute to go / no-go decisions on projects
• Maintain daily contact with stakeholders on project progress
• Provide clear and regular reporting
• Act as the link between management and the team, in both directions
• Set operational objectives aligned with strategic goals, then define individual objectives in consultation with team members
• Follow up on daily activities, address issues and explain decisions
• Proactively identify staffing and training needs
• Onboard new team members and foster team spirit
• Analyse business needs and existing situations with business owners
• Work with functional analysts on data, process and behavioural analyses
• Present findings and propose improvements in quality, lead times and efficiency

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Agile methodologies

Job description

The role is part of a complex IT project in the human resources domain, involving several institutions and a wide range of business and technical stakeholders.

Following a preliminary study, the project is now moving into its initiation and delivery phase: refining the scope, structuring the project organisation, and steering each delivery phase through to implementation of the solution.

Role and responsibilities

The Project Leader is responsible for the operational management of the project, reporting to a Chain Project Leader and a Chain Service Manager, and coordinates stakeholders and teams on a day-to-day basis.

Project management

• Manage scope, planning, development budget and resources, as well as risks, dependencies and quality
• Prepare budgets together with the Chain Project Leader
• Build plannings that take into account task allocation, workload, priorities, budgets and quality expectations
• Adjust the planning as circumstances change
• Monitor the budget and flag any overrun in good time
• Ensure compliance with applicable quality standards and methodologies
• Contribute to go / no-go decisions on projects

Coordination and reporting

• Maintain daily contact with stakeholders on project progress
• Provide clear and regular reporting
• Act as the link between management and the team, in both directions

Team management

• Set operational objectives aligned with strategic goals, then define individual objectives in consultation with team members
• Follow up on daily activities, address issues and explain decisions
• Proactively identify staffing and training needs
• Onboard new team members and foster team spirit
• Analyse business needs and existing situations with business owners
• Work with functional analysts on data, process and behavioural analyses
• Present findings and propose improvements in quality, lead times and efficiency

Profile

Experience

• Proven experience leading complex IT projects, ideally in a .NET technical environment
• Experience with projects involving multiple stakeholders with differing interests and priorities
• Experience managing stakeholders in a government or large-enterprise context (mandatory)

Required skills

• Command of all project management dimensions: scope, planning, budget, resources, risks, quality and governance
• Ability to lead a decentralised project team spread across several organisations
• Ability to turn a high-level scope into a concrete, structured and manageable project organisation
• Understanding of business stakes combined with sufficient technical insight, particularly into system integrations and dependencies
• Experience with Agile methods and multidisciplinary teams

Nice to have

• Migration or system / application integration projects
• Convergence projects between organisations (mergers, acquisitions) or technologies (mainframe phase-out, COBOL-to-.NET replacement), including supporting teams through upskilling
• Leading a .NET development team
• Knowledge of Jira and Confluence, governance standards and processes
• Knowledge of UML
• PRINCE2 certification or equivalent
• Communication, coordination and negotiation
• Autonomy, structure and pragmatism
• Results orientation
• Ability to bring structure to a complex environment and get people from different organisations working together