Job description
We are looking for an IT Project Manager to coordinate a multi-year application modernisation. The work progresses business domain by business domain, improving user experience and operational efficiency while replacing a layered application landscape. The target architecture is being defined by technical specialists; your role is to facilitate that work and orchestrate its implementation and adoption.
Your role
- Structure the project into phases with successive production releases, and maintain the roadmap, budget, resources and governance.
- Coordinate dependencies, risks and transitions while old and new systems coexist, including the gradual retirement of technologies.
- Work with developers, tech leads, analysts and the architect to balance technical constraints with business priorities.
- Prepare and facilitate steering committees, report on progress and propose actions for project risks.
- Run business workshops with a business analyst, clarify needs and help define target processes and user journeys.
- Support stakeholder engagement, communication and change across business and IT teams.
- Prepare the implementation plan, resource estimates and governance arrangements, and scope the first modernisation phase.
You have
- Knowledge of .NET.
- Change management experience used in the past year.
- Advanced IT developer coordination experience used in the past year.
- Advanced digital transformation experience used in the past year.
- Advanced knowledge of IT governance frameworks, used in the past year.
- Advanced project management experience used in the past year.
- Knowledge of SQL.
- Advanced experience with steering committees, used in the past year.
- Advanced workshop facilitation and training experience used in the past year.
- English at C1 level.
- Dutch or French at C2 level.
A plus
- At least five years managing application projects or digital transformation projects.
- Experience leading at least one application modernisation project from start to finish.
- Experience in IT environments with internal or external development teams.
- Experience collaborating directly with architects.
- Experience collaborating directly with tech leads.
- Experience collaborating directly with product teams.
- Significant experience independently facilitating business workshops.
- Understanding of application architecture principles.
- Understanding of technical debt and its implications.
- Understanding of application modernisation challenges.
- Knowledge of Microsoft technologies.
- Ability to challenge project estimates.
- Ability to challenge project risks.
- Ability to challenge project dependencies.
- Strong listening skills.
- Excellent facilitation skills.
- Strong ability to synthesise information.
- Ability to turn open discussions into clear, actionable requirements.
- A strong sense of prioritisation.
- A focus on creating value.
- Ability to bring people with different profiles together.
- Clear, structured communication.
- Diplomacy.
- A pragmatic approach.
- Ability to make progress in a complex, cross-functional environment.
- Ability to work where requirements develop progressively.
- A results-oriented approach.
- Dutch at C1 level.
Working at Neurho
Founded in 1998, Neurho is a Belgian IT and business consultancy. For more than 25 years, we have been helping banks, insurers, energy companies and public institutions in Belgium and Luxembourg with their transformation projects. At Neurho, you work on varied and challenging assignments, where your expertise is recognised and your growth encouraged. On top of your salary, you enjoy many extra-legal benefits, designed to suit your role, your needs and your personal wishes.
Neurho is committed to equal opportunity and welcomes every application, regardless of age, origin, nationality, gender, social background, beliefs or disability.