Our client is a prestigious European institution that strives to unlock the potential of data, boost digital infrastructure and connectivity, and promote digital skills across the European Union.
The selected candidate for this role will be joining a smart middleware European project that will enable cloud-to-edge federations and support all major data initiatives funded by the Institution, such as common European data spaces.
The role of the institution is to offer the product freely as an open-source tool, benefiting both public and private sectors, and ultimately serving European citizens. And make available open testing environments for stakeholders, among other important responsibilities.
We are now seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to take charge with a proven ability to operate effectively in demanding environments.
Contract type: Freelancer agreement, with an initial contract duration, with the possibility for renewal
Workplace type: Hybrid with 2 - 3 days a week of office presence at the client's premises in Brussels.
Key Responsibilities:
• Coordinate, with the team assigned to the task and provided from an end-to-end point of view on the project development cycle;
• Work within the agile process and make decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality for all the work done by the agile development team.
• 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 from within the unit, other units, or within the project programme.
• Possess an in-depth knowledge of the goals and desired objectives of the project.
• Validate requirements taking into account the relevant data space stakeholders, but also organisations like DSSC, IDSA, Gaia-X.
• 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 transparency and dissemination of information.
• Evaluate prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs.
• Interact with business analysts, architects, stakeholders, project leaders and the developers.
Key Knowledge, Skills, and Expertise:
• Proven experience in managing activities under a large project or programme autonomously, while coordinating with the team, contractors and / or client.
• Ability to work in a proactive manner and adapt to changing requirements efficiently and fast.
• Take ownership of the activities assigned, while aligning with the colleagues and contractors involved.
• Ability to give business and technical presentations. •
• Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Practical knowledge of (Open-Source) data sharing tools (EDC, Gaia-X, others), models and standards (W3C DID, W3C DCAT, W3C ODRL, …).
• Good knowledge of cloud architecture best practices and patterns.
• Good knowledge of microservices and architecture in the cloud.
• Good knowledge of applications design.
• Good knowledge of Relational DBMS. 3 • Good knowledge of business process analysis.
• Good knowledge of interoperability technologies at cloud infrastructure level but also at service level (web services, message-oriented middleware, service-oriented bus, event architecture).
• Knowledge of security mechanisms for cloud architectures (e.g., IdP). •
• Understanding of Infrastructure or data layer involved in project.
• Multi-annual experience in Agile as well as agile toolbox (i.e., JIRA, Confluence, Big Picture, Gliffy, Balsamiq, etc.).
• Excellent Knowledge of Application Management Lifecycle.
• Good Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, COBIT, Zachman, and actual experience developing and building models based on such framework
Certifications and Standards:
The following certificates & standards are strongly recommended for the performance of tasks:
• Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
• Project Management certification: PMP, PMI, Prince2 Foundation, PM2 or equivalent