Technical Lead – Geospatial Data Platform

HumanInTech; Sint-Denijs-Westrem; Ibrido; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

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.

Competenze

• 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).

Mansioni

• 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.

Conoscenze

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

Formazione

Bachelor's or Master's degree in technical field

Strumenti

JPA (Hibernate)

Spring

Hibernate

REST

XML / XSD

WSDL / SOAP

Descrizione del lavoro

What you will do

You will take on the technical lead role for a geospatial data platform that manages and publishes subsurface and soil data. The platform is expanding its scope and partnerships, bringing increased complexity and a growing development team.

Your responsibilities include:

• Leading and coaching a development team of up to five developers
• Creating technical designs and guiding technical designers
• Executing programming tasks yourself: coding, testing, and debugging
• Participating in and providing input for monthly sprint reviews, bi-weekly sprint planning, and daily stand-ups with the full development team
• Introducing and leading Agile development methodology within the team
• Managing technical aspects of projects with budgets exceeding 250,000 EUR
• Applying ITIL processes such as configuration management and change management
• Handling project management facets including timing, coordination, planning, and estimates

What we are looking for

Essential requirements:

• Master's or Bachelor's degree with a technical, engineering, or business economics background
• Demonstrable training with certification or equivalent experience in programming languages such as .NET (C#), Java/J2EE, PHP
• At least 10 years of experience in the relevant programming language or related environments
• At least 10 years of experience in development projects, including at least 5 years as a designer and leader of all technical aspects in projects with total budgets above 250,000 EUR
• At least 5 years of experience with large business-critical applications
• Experience in creating technical designs and in managing and coaching technical designers
• Strong communication skills and experience with teamwork and project-oriented work
• Ability to lead and coach a development team of up to five developers
• Fluent Dutch at European CEFR level C2
• Proven experience with PostgreSQL and PostGIS databases
• Proven experience with Geomajas
• Proven experience with GWT (Google Web Toolkit)
• Expert in using code versioning (e.g. Subversion), testing and code profiling tools, and issue management tools (e.g. Jira)
• Very good knowledge of object-oriented analysis and design and UML
• Knowledge and application of Agile development methodology, with the ability to introduce and lead this methodology in development projects
• Very good knowledge of ITIL and ability to apply relevant basic processes
• Ability to use project management techniques and tools (risk management, issue management)

Highly valued:

• Experience within the public sector
• Experience with CSS, HTML, and JavaScript
• Experience with Java
• Familiarity with the soil and subsurface domain
• Experience executing programming tasks fluently: coding, testing, and debugging

Additional advantages:

• Experience with Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Crucible
• Experience with JPA (Hibernate)
• Experience with Spring Framework
• Knowledge of server-side technologies: Spring/Java, Spring framework (Core, Data, MVC), XML, XSD, WSDL, SOAP, REST, JUnit, Mockito, SQL, H2
• Knowledge of client-side technologies: D3, HighCharts
• Experience with Eclipse or IntelliJ

The setting

This role runs from November 2026 to mid-July 2027. The work is based in the Ghent region, with up to 50% remote work possible. You will work according to Agile methodology within a collaborative public-sector environment. The working language is Dutch.

You can join us for this assignment as a freelancer or as an employee of HumanInTech. Same role, same team. If you join as an employee, your employment continues beyond this assignment. When it ends, we’ll work together to find your next assignment.

Location: Ghent region, hybrid

Work address: Belgium

Employer / contracting party: HumanInTech

Applications close (Brussels time): November 10, 2026 at 1:00 AM

Engagement: Freelance or employed by HumanInTech

Working hours: Full-time

Experience: More than 10 years or more

Education: Bachelor's or more

Published: November 2026