Functional Advisory Lead - CIO Advisory

Nrb; Belgique (MO); On-site; USD 159,671 - 216,696; Full time

Job summary

KEYES is building out its CIO Advisory practice and seeks a Functional Advisory Lead to translate business ambitions into coherent IT blueprints. You will engage with client CIOs, align business and IT priorities, and shape roadmaps that inform strategic decisions across applications, data, integration, and infrastructure.

With 15+ years of experience and proven governance to challenge executive committees, you will mentor teams, develop methodologies, and drive business development to expand

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience as a senior advisor delivering IT strategy and roadmaps.
• Proven ability to define blueprints integrating business and IT.
• Strong governance and executive-facing communication.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted sparring partner to CIOs on IT strategy, governance, and investments.
• Define IT blueprints aligning business strategy with applications, data, and infrastructure.
• Integrate business and IT challenges into a coherent executive narrative.
• Identify strategic scenarios and formalise a sequenced, defensible roadmap.
• Advance methodologies and assets to deliver consistent advisory engagements.

Skills

IT strategy

Roadmaps

IT architecture

Stakeholder management

Business development

CIO advisory

Job description

Functional Advisory Lead - CIO Advisory

Join KEYES and give meaning to your talent. At KEYES, technology is a lever for building a sustainable future. We seek individuals who share our values and are ready to advance their careers with one of Belgium’s leading IT companies.

KEYES supports private and public organizations across Belgium and Europe in their digital transformation, combining business expertise, technological excellence, and a long‑term vision. Our areas of expertise include Infrastructure & Cloud Solutions, Cybersecurity Solutions, Business Software Solutions, Mainframe Solutions, Data & AI Solutions, Advisory Solutions, and Staffing Solutions.

We are building out our CIO Advisory practice to meet the growing demand for trusted, independent partners that shape IT strategy for clients. The Functional Lead will operate across a portfolio of client engagements, addressing recurring strategic challenges such as translating business ambitions into coherent IT blueprints, aligning business and IT priorities, assessing strategic scenarios, formalising roadmaps, and maturing internal methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Helping client CIOs translate business ambitions into coherent IT blueprints—including applications, data, integration, and infrastructure.
• Aligning business and IT priorities, arbitrating between competing demands, and building a shared transformation agenda.
• Identifying and assessing strategic scenarios (build/buy, modernisation, sourcing, cloud) and quantifying their impact and risk.
• Formalising pragmatic, sequenced roadmaps that client CIOs can defend to their executive committees and boards.
• Maturing KEYES’s own CIO advisory methodologies, tools, and assets to deliver consistent, high‑quality engagements at scale.

Tasks and Responsibilities

1) CIO Advisory & Sparring Partner

• Act as a trusted sparring partner to client CIOs on their IT strategy, governance, and major investment decisions.
• Define and structure IT blueprints that connect the client’s business strategy with its application, data, and infrastructure landscape.
• Integrate business and IT challenges into a coherent narrative, surfacing trade‑offs and dependencies leaders need to arbitrate.
• Identify and assess strategic scenarios—supported by business cases, TCO, and value quantification—then formalise a clear, sequenced, and defensible roadmap for the client.
• Bring credibility and authority in C‑level conversations, challenging and convincing senior stakeholders with substance.

2) Delivery Oversight & Methodology Development

• Oversee the delivery of IT strategy engagements across clients, safeguarding quality, coherence, and impact.
• Develop and continuously improve KEYES’s CIO advisory methodologies, frameworks, templates, and reusable assets.
• Activate and coordinate the right KEYES experts at the right time, ensuring consistency across workstreams and engagements.
• Coach and upskill KEYES consultants, embedding the methodologies and raising the bar on advisory deliverables.

3) Business Development & Practice Growth

• Detect and shape new advisory opportunities within and beyond existing client relationships.
• Contribute to proposals and scoping, translating client needs into compelling, well‑structured advisory offers.
• Build trusted, lasting relationships with client CIOs and their leadership teams, positioning KEYES as the go‑to advisor.
• Represent KEYES’s CIO advisory point of view externally, building the firm’s reputation and pipeline.
• Develop thought leadership—points of view, publications, and speaking engagements—that builds KEYES’s visibility and intellectual capital in CIO advisory.

Qualifications

• A proven senior advisor with 15+ years of experience and the credibility and presence to convince and challenge CIOs and executive committees.
• IT strategy expertise: proven experience defining IT blueprints, target architectures, and roadmaps, and integrating business and IT challenges.
• Technical expertise in IT architecture and blueprint design: solid command of application, data, integration, and infrastructure architecture, with the ability to design, document, and defend IT blueprints with technical depth and credibility.
• Methodology development: ability to formalise, structure, and continuously improve advisory methodologies, frameworks, and deliverables.
• Stakeholder management at CIO/C‑level: comfortable in strategic conversations, diplomatic and firm, with a strong business development drive.
• Languages: fluent French, Dutch, and English required.

For more information, visit www.keyes.eu.