IT Team Lead Service (Senior) - ELIA

Adjugo; Brussel Hoofdstad; Hybrid; EUR 95.000 - 125.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Elia Group in Brussels seeks an IT Team Leader & Transition Manager to guide Architecture teams through a merger of Architecture and Product groups into a single operating model. Key duties include defining governance, interfaces, and a transition plan while maintaining delivery continuity across digital initiatives.

The role requires more than ten years in transition and project management, with experience in agile IT product delivery and Energy & Utilities.

Qualifikationen

• Requires 10+ years in transition and project management.
• Experience merging Architecture and Product teams into a unified operating model.
• Strong governance and interface definition capabilities.
• Ability to remove blockers and ensure delivery continuity.

Aufgaben

• Clarify team interfaces and governance for the merged organization.
• Lead Solution Architecture operations across digital initiatives.
• Manage workforce and PPM assignments and steering‑group activities.
• Provide pragmatic execution recommendations and status updates.
• Monitor architecture operations and resolve problems.

Kenntnisse

Transition management

Project management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Agile IT product delivery

Energy & Utilities sector

Tools

Sparx Enterprise Architect

SciForma

Portfolio Management tooling

ITIL

TOGAF

ArchiMate

Domain Driven Design

Jobbeschreibung

Dates: 2026-11-02 — 2026-12-31

Arrangements: 100% work regime; onsite presence required by default 2 days per week; hybrid working for the remaining days.

Elia Group is seeking an IT Team Leader & Transition Manager to join its IT Architecture team in Brussels. The consultant will guide and support Solution Architects in planning, methodology and delivery excellence. The role also participates in the Enterprise Architecture team. The assignment supports Elia Group’s work on reliable and sustainable electricity infrastructure in Belgium and Germany.

A central objective is to manage an internal reorganization that merges the Architecture and Product teams into a single operating model within three months. The consultant will define governance and decision‑making with the existing team and Enterprise Architect, clarify interfaces, and drive the transition plan. The role must remove organizational, process and stakeholder blockers while preserving delivery continuity. Building trust, collaboration, momentum and team cohesion is essential to making the merged organization effective and self‑sustaining.

The consultant will also lead Solution Architecture operations across digital initiatives. Responsibilities include workforce and request management, SciForma PPM assignments, steering‑group participation, standardized deliverables, quality controls, operational follow‑up and problem management. The role requires more than ten years of transition and project management experience plus broad architecture‑methodology knowledge. Merger/transformation experience, agile IT product delivery and Energy & Utilities experience are advantages.

Top Reasons to Apply

Lead energy transition

Shape operating model

Innovation and collaboration

Responsibilities

Clarify team roles interfaces

Remove organizational process blockers

Integrate Architecture Product teams

Build trust team collaboration

Accelerate new working adoption

Create momentum team cohesion

Must Have

10+ years transition/project management

Dynamic autonomous initiative

Result oriented

IT processes and methodologies

ITIL standard experience

TOGAF standard experience

ArchiMate standard experience

Domain Driven Design

Nice to Have

Energy & Utilities experience

Detailed Responsibilities and Skills

Additional Responsibilities

• Ensure merged organization sustainability
• Provide leadership progress updates
• Provide pragmatic execution recommendations
• Manage requests PPM assignments
• Monitor solution architecture operations
• Manage alerts and problems
• Facilitate operational vision translation
• Establish architecture operating model
• More than 10 years of experience in transition management and project management.
• Dynamic profile able to work autonomously and take initiative when engaging with people at all levels.
• Result-oriented approach.
• Team player with a strong collaboration focus.
• Very good presentation skills.
• Good level of Dutch and/or French is required.
• Good level of English is required.
• For non‑EU candidates working in Belgium: possess a work permit allowing work in Belgium.
• For non‑EU candidates working in Belgium: hold a valid residence permit confirming the right of residence in Belgium.

Technical skills

• Experience in IT processes and methodologies.
• Experience using ITIL.
• Experience using TOGAF.
• Experience using ArchiMate.
• Experience using Domain Driven Design.
• Experience with cloud‑native architecture patterns.
• Ability to advocate reference architectures.
• Familiarity with Microservices architectures.
• Familiarity with Event‑driven architectures.
• Familiarity with Gartner Architecture Frameworks, such as TIME for APM.
• Experience with merger situations and subsequent transformations is a plus.
• Notable real‑world experience architecting, designing and delivering IT products in an agile environment is a plus.
• Experience in the Energy & Utilities sector is an asset.

Tools

• Experience with modeling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect or similar tools.
• Use SciForma, the Project and Portfolio Management tool, for assignments and workforce/request management.