Project Manager-Contract

Role: Project Manager

Working model: Hybrid (2-3 days from the office)

Contract Duration: 6 months with possible extension

Language requirement: English(Mandatory) Dutch(Preferred)

Job Specification Project Manager (Engineering Delivery)

1. Job Purpose

The Project Manager is responsible for leading the delivery of complex technology initiatives through the effective coordination and management of multidisciplinary engineering teams.

The role acts as the primary link between business stakeholders architecture teams engineering teams operational functions vendors and programme leadership ensuring that technical solutions are delivered in line with business objectives architectural standards security requirements and operational needs.

The Project Manager is accountable for planning coordinating tracking governing and reporting on the delivery of technology solutions whilst enabling engineering teams to focus on technical design build testing and implementation activities.

The team size is medium - between 4-5 back-end engineers.

2. Key Accountabilities

• Project Management & Delivery
• Technical Delivery Coordination
• Stakeholder Management
• Governance Risk & Compliance
• Vendor & Third-Party Management
• Business Change & Operational Readiness
• Continuous Improvement

3. Knowledge Skills and Experience

Education

• Bachelors degree in Business Technology Information Systems Engineering or related discipline.
• Project Management certification (PRINCE2 PMP MSP or equivalent) preferred.
• Agile delivery certification (Scrum SAFe AgilePM or equivalent) desirable.

• 5 years experience delivering complex technology or transformation programmes.
• Proven experience managing software development cloud infrastructure platform or integration projects.
• Experience leading cross-functional engineering delivery teams.
• Experience managing technical dependencies across multiple workstreams.
• Experience operating within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Experience working with internal and external delivery partners.
• Experience managing budgets forecasts risks and stakeholder governance.
• Experience delivering projects using Agile Waterfall or hybrid methodologies.
• Experience coordinating software delivery lifecycles including development testing release deployment and operational transition.

• Strong understanding of project and programme management methodologies.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) principles.
• Familiarity with modern engineering cloud API automation integration and platform delivery environments.

Note: Deep hands-on technical expertise is not required. The role is expected to effectively manage engineering delivery by understanding delivery impacts dependencies risks resource requirements and stakeholder outcomes rather than performing technical design or development activities.

Skills

• Strong programme and project leadership capability.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Strong planning scheduling and delivery management capability.
• Exceptional organisational and coordination skills.
• Strong risk dependency issue and change management capability.
• Excellent communication presentation and reporting skills.
• Strong governance and executive management reporting capability.