Digital Transformation & App Modernization Lead

Huxley; Brussel Hoofdstad; Hybrid; EUR 111,000 - 166,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Long-term freelance assignment

Job summary

Huxley in Brussels is seeking an IT Project Manager to lead a strategic application modernization program, coordinating business stakeholders, analysts, architects, and development teams to ensure alignment, prioritization and successful delivery. The role emphasizes governance, planning, risk management and change management within a multi-disciplinary team.

The candidate should have 5+ years of experience in application/digital transformation projects, strong stakeholder skills, and the

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience managing application transformation or digital transformation projects.
• Proven experience delivering at least one end-to-end application modernization initiative.
• Experience working with internal and/or external software development teams.
• Strong track record collaborating with architects, tech leads, and product teams.
• Experience facilitating business workshops and managing multiple stakeholders.
• Experience managing long-term projects with multiple production releases.

Responsibilities

• Define and structure project phases, each ending with a production release.
• Contribute to project organization, governance, budgeting, and resource planning.
• Build, maintain, and continuously update the project roadmap.
• Manage dependencies across multiple ongoing initiatives.
• Identify project risks and implement mitigation plans.
• Prepare and facilitate steering committees and governance meetings.
• Provide regular reporting to senior management.
• Collaborate closely with architects, developers, tech leads, and business analysts.
• Understand technical constraints and assess their impact on planning and delivery.
• Facilitate decision-making between business priorities and technical requirements.
• Ensure effective collaboration across all IT teams.
• Organize and facilitate workshops with business stakeholders.
• Clarify business needs, objectives, and priorities.
• Support decision-making processes and requirement alignment.
• Contribute to process design and target operating models.
• Ensure that proposed solutions effectively address business challenges.
• Promote stakeholder engagement and project adoption.
• Support communication and change management initiatives.
• Facilitate the organization's transition toward a business-domain-driven approach.
• Ensure consistency across transformation initiatives.
• Detailed implementation roadmap and resource estimation.
• Governance structure and project operating model.
• Setup of project ceremonies, steering committees, and reporting processes.
• Scope definition and planning for the first modernization phase.

Skills

Project Management

Digital Transformation

IT Governance

Coordination of Development Teams

Steering Committee Management

Workshop Facilitation

Change Management

Stakeholder Management

Risk Management

Roadmap Planning

Job description

Huxley in Brussels is seeking an IT Project Manager to lead a strategic application modernization program, coordinating business stakeholders, analysts, architects, and development teams to ensure alignment, prioritization and successful delivery. The role emphasizes governance, planning, risk management and change management within a multi-disciplinary team.

The candidate should have 5+ years of experience in application/digital transformation projects, strong stakeholder skills, and the