9 months
30/09/2025 - 30/06/2026 Belgium
Requirements
Roles
  • IT Project Manager Senior
Languages
  • English Professional working proficiency
  • Dutch Professional working proficiency
  • French Professional working proficiency
Skills
  • Agile & Waterfall Methodology Expertise Expert
  • Stakeholder Communication & Coordination Expert
  • Project Management & Delivery Leadership Expert
  • Risk & Issue Management Expert
Description

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MISSION DESCRIPTION & CONSULTING PROFILE

 

Description of The Mission

Title of the mission:

IT Team Lead

Goal of the mission:

Provide leadership and coordination for a technical delivery team working on mainframe COBOL applications and migration support, ensuring high-quality execution, proper reporting, and smooth alignment with program governance and objectives.

Expected deliveries:
  • Effective leadership and coordination of the life cycle of development starting from business requirements, functional & technical analysis, build & unit testing until System integration testing
  • Prioritization of backlog items and tasks within the team.
  • Regular status, progress, and risk reporting to project and program leadership.
  • Close follow-up of the testing activities and driving the validation process for the functional & technical analysis through team guidance and issue resolution.
  • Ensuring documentation and knowledge transfer from the team to internal IT stakeholders.

Expected role & responsibilities during the mission:
  • Supervise and coordinate the development team.
  • Monitor progress, manage risks, and escalate through governance when needed.
  • Ensure alignment of deliverables with quality standards and project milestones.
  • Facilitate collaboration between the team, internal IT, business stakeholders, and partners.
  • Report regularly on team status, issues, and mitigations.

Mission Start Date:

01/10/2025

End Date:

30/06/2026   

Description of The Expected Profile

Knowledge:
  • Solid background in the life cycle of a development process in a onshore & offshore context
  • Experience with system integration and data migration projects.
  • Awareness of financial and regulatory contexts (insurance knowledge is an important plus).
  • Familiarity with structured project governance and backlog management.

Competencies:
  • Strong team leadership and people management skills.
  • Ability to plan, prioritize, and coordinate multiple activities.
  • Skilled in problem-solving in a structured and pragmatic way.
  • Effective stakeholder communication and reporting.
  • Experience managing vendors or external contributors is an asset.

Mindset:
  • Ownership-oriented: accountable for the team’s delivery and performance.
  • Collaborative: bridges team members, business stakeholders, and IT.
  • Structured & disciplined: ensures governance, quality, and reporting standards are followed.
  • Proactive & solution-driven: anticipates risks and addresses blockers early.
  • Knowledge-builder: promotes documentation and knowledge transfer for sustainability.

Seniority expected:

Senior

Years of Experience:

5-10

Languages:

☒NLD

☒FR

☒ENG

☐Other: …………………….