Platform & Foundations Delivery Lead

Sofico; Zwijnaarde; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal allowance for every working day

Company car or mobility budget

Fully covered private health insurance

Hybrid working and flexible hours

Structured onboarding with coach

Continuous learning and development

Job summary

Sofico is hiring a Manager Platform Delivery – Platform & Foundations to lead and grow engineering teams that own Miles Enterprise's core platform components.

You will drive technical direction, collaborate with PMs, Architects and senior leaders, and ensure robust, scalable and extensible platform capabilities across shared services, AI, identity, integration, and data streaming. The role emphasizes shipping quality software with modern backend engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Requires strong leadership experience in software engineering.
• Proven ability to lead multi-team platforms across domains.
• Solid foundation in enterprise backend development (Java).

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow engineering teams responsible for core platform components.
• Shape and implement platform strategy with PMs and architects.
• Enable Product teams with reusable APIs and frameworks.
• Drive engineering metrics and continuous improvement.

Skills

People leadership

Delivery ownership

Technical direction

Java back-end

Quarkus & REST

Event-driven architectures

Cloud-native

CI/CD

Stakeholder management

AI-aware engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Java

Quarkus

REST APIs

Event-driven architectures

Cloud-native systems

CI/CD

Job description

Sofico is hiring a Manager Platform Delivery – Platform & Foundations to lead and grow engineering teams that own Miles Enterprise's core platform components.

You will drive technical direction, collaborate with PMs, Architects and senior leaders, and ensure robust, scalable and extensible platform capabilities across shared services, AI, identity, integration, and data streaming. The role emphasizes shipping quality software with modern backend engineering practices.