Information Technology Project Lead

Job Title: IT Project Lead- Epic Delivery Owner

Job Type: Contract

Who can apply: Freelancers

Location: Brussels Belgium

Language: English

Work regime: Hybrid (2 days/week onsite)

Sector

Our client is a is a key player in the financial services sector, specializing in post-trade settlement solutions for securities transactions. It operates a robust infrastructure that facilitates the clearing, settlement, and safekeeping of a wide range of financial instruments.

Position Overview:

• CIAM program (Customer Identity and Access Management).
• Ensuring on-time delivery of IT projects, within the committed budget and with the expected quality.
• Integrating contributions from various teams into a globally consistent plan, aligning with our Agile Operating Model.
• Writing comprehensive project memos to enable informed decision-making by Business Sponsors and IT management.
• Providing regular status reports to senior management and various stakeholders.
• Create, oversee, and sustain project plans and forecasts, encompassing resource requirements, costs, dependencies, risks, and their mitigations
• Work with virtual teams across various divisions and entities, including third-party suppliers.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and customers, providing advice, guidance, and options regarding IT investments.
• Define project governance (deliverables, processes, and ceremonies) and supervise the progress and quality of its execution.
• Lead the risk, issue and change control processes for assigned projects, and build action plans to mitigate risks, resolve issues, and track action items.
• Control and supervise the progress of projects, reporting to senior management and the Sponsorship Committee.
• Manage projects in accordance with internal standards (methodology & tools) and our Agile Operating Model.

What you'll do:

• A minimum of 5 years' experience in a project management role, with a mastery of Agile methodology.
• Strong leadership skills to adapt your style according to the situation and different stakeholders.
• A good technical and business understanding.
• Interpersonal skills to influence decisions made with the project sponsor/client.
• Excellent communication skills (listening, writing, and presenting) at all levels, from staff members to senior management.
• The ability to learn quickly in a complex environment and to synthesize the situation.
• Strong negotiation skills, conflict management, and influencing skills at different levels of management.
• Effective delegation of tasks and responsibilities while maintaining overall control.
• Assertiveness to drive tasks to completion.
• Proficiency in English.

What you bring:

• Certification in PRINCE2 and/or PMI (or similar IT frameworks).
• Agile Certified Practitioner.

A little about us:

Innova Solutions is a diverse and award-winning global technology services partner. We provide our clients with strategic technology, talent, and business transformation solutions, enabling them to be leaders in their field.

• Founded in 1998, headquartered in Atlanta (Duluth), Georgia.
• Employs over 50,000 professionals worldwide, with annual revenue approaching $3.0B.
• Delivers strategic technology and business transformation solutions globally.
• Operates through global delivery centers across North America, Asia, and Europe.
• Provides services for data center migration and workload development for cloud service providers.

Awardee of prestigious recognitions including:

• Women's Choice Awards - Best Companies to Work for Women & Millennials, 2024
• Forbes, America's Best Temporary Staffing and Best Professional Recruiting Firms, 2023
• American Best in Business, Globee Awards, Healthcare Vulnerability Technology Solutions, 2023
• Global Health & Pharma, Best Full Service Workforce Lifecycle Management Enterprise, 2023
• Received 3 SBU Leadership in Business Awards
• Stevie International Business Awards, Denials Remediation Healthcare Technology Solutions, 2023