Hybrid IT Program Manager

at Uni Systems

• Job title: IT Program Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Cloud, Microservices, PMP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Brussels, Belgium

About the role

• IT Program Manager managing end-to-end projects and agile processes at Uni Systems. Collaborating with teams and stakeholders for effective project delivery in a hybrid environment.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, with the team assigned to the task, the input to be provided to the contractor(s) from an end-to-end point of view of the development cycle.
• Work within the agile process and take decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality.
• Follow a number of activities across different projects and contractors requiring technical and project management skills.
• Understand and comply to a review process, monitor status of certain tasks, coordinate internally and gather input.
• Possess an in-depth knowledge of goals and desired objectives of the project.
• Validate requirements taking into account the relevant data space stakeholders.
• Propose solutions by combining IT tools and business process refactoring or improvements based on an in-depth understanding of a specific data spaces and initiatives.
• Be involved in the decision-making process related to user stories scheduling into sprints.
• Review deliverable and demonstrable product version/software functionalities after every sprint.
• Organize live demonstration of the product at the end of the sprint.
• Evaluate and facilitate progress reporting.
• Assist with internal and external communication by improving of transparency and dissemination of information.
• Evaluate prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs.
• Interact with business analysts, architects, stakeholders, project leaders and the developers.

Requirements

• Master's degree in IT and minimum 15 years of relevant professional experience (or Bachelor's degree in IT and minimum 19 years of experience).
• Certification in one of the followings: Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Project Management certification (PMP, PMI, Prince2 Foundation,PM2)
• Strong experience with large, enterprise-level multi-user Information Systems.
• Proven experience managing end-to-end large IT projects or programs.
• Strong experience in Agile as well as agile toolbox (i.e., JIRA, Confluence, Big Picture, Gliffy, Balsamiq, etc.).
• Excellent Knowledge of Application Management Lifecycle.
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, COBIT, Zachman.
• Proven experience working in EU Institutions, especially in EC.
• Proven experience in managing activities under a large project or programme autonomously, while coordinating with the team, contractors and / or client.
• Practical knowledge of (Open-Source) data sharing tools (EDC, Gaia-X, others), models and standards (W3C DID, W3C DCAT, W3C ODRL, …).
• Good knowledge of microservices and architecture in the cloud.
• Good knowledge of Relational DBMS.
• Knowledge of security mechanisms for cloud architectures (e.g., IdP).
• Advanced English (C1) communication skills (written and spoken).