Senior Project Leader (.NET)

Location: Brussels, Belgium; client-site consultancy mission

Company

Consultancy mission representing hirify.global at a client site.

What you will do

• Manage the initiation and execution of a complex HR-domain IT project involving multiple institutions and business and technical stakeholders.
• Control scope, planning, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, quality, governance, and project progress.
• Create schedules, monitor costs and quality, adapt plans, and report on progress and budget overruns.
• Coordinate daily with stakeholders, management, business owners, and multidisciplinary teams; support project-initiation decisions.
• Lead and motivate a decentralized development team, identify staffing needs, and help define operational and individual objectives.
• Transform high-level scope into a structured project organization and guide the solution through implementation.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing complex IT projects, ideally in a technical .NET context.
• Strong command of scope, planning, budget, resources, risks, quality, and governance.
• Experience managing multiple stakeholders with differing interests and priorities, including governmental or large-enterprise environments.
• Ability to lead decentralized teams and structure projects involving multiple organizations or stakeholders.
• Understanding of business challenges and sufficient technical knowledge of system integrations and dependencies.
• Experience managing teams, deliverables, business needs, analyses, and problem-solving with business owners.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and multidisciplinary collaboration.
• Excellent communication, coordination, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills; autonomous, structured, pragmatic, and results-oriented.
• Native Dutch and native French; active knowledge of English.

Nice to have

• Experience with system or application migration and integration projects.
• Experience with convergence projects involving organizational mergers or acquisitions, mainframe or COBOL replacement, or team skillset transitions.
• Experience leading a .NET development team.
• Knowledge of governance standards and processes, Jira, and Confluence.
• PRINCE2 certification or equivalent.
• Good knowledge of both main national languages.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time consultancy mission in a dynamic environment.
• Duration: as soon as possible through 31/12/2028, stated as 26 months.
• Work is performed at the client site in Brussels.

Hiring process

• Applications are submitted through the hirify.global Career Portal.