Senior Specialist – Product Technical Lead

Europol; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 88,000 - 116,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Teleworking opportunities

Annual leave

Expatriation allowances

Job summary

Europol in The Hague, Netherlands, invites applications for Senior Specialist – Product Technical Lead to ensure coherent delivery of technology solutions across squads, including co-sourced teams, aligning with the delivery roadmap and technical direction.

The role combines delivery and technical leadership, coordinating with Product Delivery Manager, Squad Leads, Architecture, Engineering, Security, and QA CoE to ensure transparent progress and high-quality, maintainable solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience in .NET or Java software development projects.
• Experience as Technical Delivery Lead / Tech Lead.
• Experience coordinating delivery across multiple squads/ outsourcing.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and release flow concepts.
• Experience in agile, Scrum/Kanban environments.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating delivery across multiple internal and external squads and milestones.
• Translating objectives into an integrated delivery plan and release sequencing.
• Ensuring delivery visibility through governance and reporting.
• Facilitating alignment with target architecture and standards.
• Ensuring non-functional requirements are addressed.
• Coordinating release readiness and handover with stakeholders.
• Identifying and mitigating delivery risks and issues.
• Managing external partner deliverables and integration points.

Skills

Technical Delivery Lead

Cross-team coordination

Agile methodologies

CI/CD concepts

Stakeholder alignment

Tools

Java 11+

.NET 8+

Job description

Headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands, Europol offers a purpose driven career, as every role offers a profound sense of accomplishment, through making a positive contribution to society. Europol’s mission is to support its Member States in preventing and combating all forms of serious international and organized crime, cybercrime and terrorism. We are committed to upholding the values of service, integrity, accountability, initiative, partnership, and diversity. As part of Europol, you will collaborate with diverse top-tier experts, forge international connections, be involved in the ongoing evolution of strategies, technologies, tools and methodologies that underpin European Security, and thrive in a supportive environment that nurtures both personal and professional growth.

Currently Europol is looking for Senior Specialist – Product Technical Lead. The successful candidate will ensure coherent, high-quality delivery of technology solutions across multiple squads, including co-sourced teams. The role combines delivery leadership and technical leadership, ensuring that execution is aligned with Europol’s technical direction and delivery roadmap.

Acting as central coordination point between stakeholders and delivery teams, the Product Technical Lead (PTL) will drive alignment on priorities, manages cross-team technical dependencies, and ensure transparency on progress and outcomes. In parallel, the PTL will provide technical direction, and ensuring solutions are maintainable, compliant and operable.

The PTL works closely with the Product Delivery Manager, Squad Leads, Architecture, Engineering, Security, QA Center of Excellence and the Business Stakeholders to ensure solutions are delivered with both strong execution and sound technical integrity.

The successful candidate will be entrusted with the following functions and duties:

• Coordinating delivery across multiple internal and external squads, aligning milestones, interfaces, and cross-team technical dependencies while respecting squad autonomy;
• Coordinating the translation of the objectives by the Squad Leads into an integrated delivery plan and release sequencing (scope, timing, and resourcing assumptions);
• Ensuring delivery visibility through streamlined governance, progress tracking and reporting;
• Facilitating technical alignment with target architecture and engineering standards, collaborating with architects and senior engineers on key design and integration choices;
• Ensuring non-functional requirements are addressed and evidenced as part of delivery;
• Partnering with the QA Center of Excellence (QA CoE) to align test approach, quality gates and acceptance evidence expectations across squads;
• Coordinating acceptance readiness across squads, QA CoE and stakeholders to enable effective releases;
• Proactively identifying and managing delivery risks, issues; drive mitigation actions and elevate when needed;
• Coordinating external partner deliverables and integration points, ensuring outputs align with agreed expectations, internal standards, and acceptance approach;
• Coordinating release readiness and cutover activities with Europol ICT Department and other stakeholders, ensuring operational handover is prepared;
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives across delivery ways of working in alignment with the Unit’s strategic direction, fostering transparency and collaboration across internal and partner teams;

Key requirements and knowledge:

• A level of education as described in the vacancy notice published on Europol’s website;
• Experience (preferably 8+ years) in .NET or Java software development projects, contributing to the design and implementation of scalable and maintainable applications;
• Experience acting as Technical Delivery Lead / Tech Lead, owning technical execution end-to-end;
• Experience coordinating delivery across multiple squads/teams on a shared initiative/program, including managing technical dependencies’;
• Experience working in an outsourced/co-sourced software delivery model, collaborating with external Scrum squads/partners and ensuring alignment on ways of working;
• Experience driving integration and release readiness across teams.
• Knowledge of enterprise software engineering in Java (11+) and/or .net (8+), sufficient to review and challenge code/designs;
• Knowledge of solution and integration design for multi-team delivery, including architectural decision-making and interface contract definition;
• Knowledge of operating in a co-sourced delivery setup;
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum/Kanban) and their practical application in cross-functional, multi-squad or hybrid environments;
• Knowledge of CI/CD and release flow concepts, with explicit understanding of dependency management for multi-squad delivery.

The basic monthly salary is 7.876,27 (step 1) or EUR 8.207,25 (step 2). The indicative net salary of AD7 step 1 for a staff member (single) in receipt of expatriation allowance (16%) is:

a) Staff member (single) in receipt of expatriation allowance (16%): EUR 8.091.70

b) Staff member with two dependent children in their custody in receipt of expatriation allowance (16%): EUR 10,380.87

Compensation and benefits:

• Healthy work-life balance and working environment: flexible working hours, structural teleworking opportunities (depending on the nature of your job), comprehensive annual leave, and maternity/parental leave In line with the EU civil service rules;
• Employees are protected against illness, accidents, and the risk of occupational disease by the Sickness Insurance Scheme (JSIS), which offers global insurance coverage;
• Staff pay EU tax at source, but salaries are exempt from national taxes;
• A competitive salary and benefits package (which can include expatriation, household, foreign residence and education allowances) in line with the EU civil service rules (Click here to explore our supplementary allowances;
• Europol fosters a continuous learning culture. We offer a comprehensive learning and development programme that is aligned with the overall business strategy and that values people’s performance and development;
• Social benefits in the form of unemployment allowance under certain conditions, as well as pension rights for Temporary and Contract Agents after 10 years of service;
• Possibility to advance in grade/salary through annual appraisal exercise and opportunities for lateral development within the organisation;
• A workplace that values environmental sustainability, diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities;