CIO Advisory Lead: Strategic IT Blueprint & Growth

NRB; Luik; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

KEYES seeks an experienced Functional Advisory Lead - CIO Advisory to shape and guide IT strategy for private and public clients across Belgium and Europe. You will connect business ambitions to IT blueprints, oversee engagements, and develop scalable advisory capabilities.

The role combines client-facing work, delivery oversight, and thought leadership, with a strong emphasis on governance, roadmapping, and value creation for senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• A proven senior advisor with 15+ years of experience and the credibility to convince CIOs and exec committees.
• IT strategy expertise: proven experience defining IT blueprints, target architectures and roadmaps.
• Technical expertise in IT architecture: solid command of application, data, integration and infrastructure architecture.
• Methodology development: ability to formalise, structure and continuously improve advisory methodologies, frameworks and deliverables.
• Stakeholder management at CIO/C-level: comfortable in strategic conversations, diplomatic and firm, with strong business development drive.
• Languages: fluent French, Dutch and English required.

Responsibilities

• CIO advisory & sparring partner to client CIOs on IT strategy, governance and major investment decisions.
• Define and structure IT blueprints that connect the client’s business strategy with its application, data and infrastructure landscape.
• Integrate business and IT challenges into a coherent narrative, surfacing trade-offs and dependencies leaders need to arbitrate.
• Identify and assess strategic scenarios – supported by business cases, TCO and value quantification – then formalise a clear, sequenced and defensible roadmap for the client.
• Bring credibility and authority in C-level conversations, challenging and convincing senior stakeholders with substance.
• Delivery oversight & methodology development: Oversee the delivery of IT strategy engagements across clients, safeguarding quality and impact.
• Develop and continuously improve KEYES’s CIO advisory methodologies, frameworks, templates and reusable assets.
• Activate and coordinate the right KEYES experts at the right time, ensuring consistency across workstreams.

Skills

IT strategy

IT architecture

Stakeholder management

CIO advisory

Business development

Languages (FR/Dutch/EN)

Job description

KEYES seeks an experienced Functional Advisory Lead - CIO Advisory to shape and guide IT strategy for private and public clients across Belgium and Europe. You will connect business ambitions to IT blueprints, oversee engagements, and develop scalable advisory capabilities.

The role combines client-facing work, delivery oversight, and thought leadership, with a strong emphasis on governance, roadmapping, and value creation for senior stakeholders.