Senior Geospatial Platform Lead — Agile, Remote (Ghent)

HumanInTech; Sint-Denijs-Westrem; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

HumanInTech in Ghent region seeks a technical lead for a geospatial data platform handling subsurface and soil data. You will lead a small development team, shape technical designs, and contribute hands-on coding, testing, and debugging.

The role spans Nov 2026 to mid-July 2027 with up to 50% remote work in a Dutch-speaking public sector context. Freelance or employee options available; full-time hours apply.

Qualifications

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in a technical, engineering, or business economics background.
• Experience with C#, Java/J2EE, PHP programming languages.
• At least 10 years of programming experience in relevant languages or environments.
• At least 10 years in development projects with at least 5 years as a designer and leader of technical aspects in projects with budgets > EUR 250,000.
• Minimum 5 years with large business-critical applications.
• Experience creating technical designs and coaching technical designers.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills; proven leadership of a small team.
• Fluent Dutch at CEFR level C2.
• Proven PostgreSQL and PostGIS experience.
• Proven Geomajas experience; GWT experience.
• Strong OO analysis & UML skills; Agile leadership.
• ITIL knowledge; able to apply related processes.
• Ability to use project management techniques (risk/issue management).

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a development team of up to five developers.
• Create technical designs and guide technical designers.
• Code, test, and debug tasks personally.
• Participate in monthly sprint reviews, bi-weekly sprint planning, and daily stand-ups with the full team.
• Introduce and lead Agile development methodology within the team.
• Manage technical aspects of projects with budgets > EUR 250,000.
• Apply ITIL processes such as configuration and change management.
• Handle project management facets including timing, coordination, planning, and estimates.

Skills

C# / .NET

Java/J2EE

PHP

PostgreSQL

PostGIS

Geomajas

GWT

Subversion

Jira

Confluence

Bamboo

JUnit

Mockito

Hibernate/JPA

Spring Framework

SQL

H2

D3

HighCharts

Eclipse / IntelliJ

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in technical field

Tools

JPA (Hibernate)

Spring

Hibernate

REST

XML / XSD

WSDL / SOAP

Job description

HumanInTech in Ghent region seeks a technical lead for a geospatial data platform handling subsurface and soil data. You will lead a small development team, shape technical designs, and contribute hands-on coding, testing, and debugging.

The role spans Nov 2026 to mid-July 2027 with up to 50% remote work in a Dutch-speaking public sector context. Freelance or employee options available; full-time hours apply.