Technical Lead

Description Technical Lead (JAVA) – Expert Work Location Brussels, Belgium (Hybrid) B2B Contract Pay: €500/Daily NET Start date: 15/02/2026 End date: 31/12/2026 Mission Context The Technical Lead (preferably a Senior Java Developer or a Senior Full Stack Developer) responsibilities plays a crucial role within the Centre of Expertise Application Development & Maintenance (COE ADM). This position focuses on creating and documenting development guidelines and best practices, ensuring their adoption and implementation across the BANKING Personal Finance IT Benelux landscape with first focus on the Benelux IT Delivery Factory. The role involves supporting developers, providing coaching and mentoring, and facilitating effective communication with both IT and non-IT stakeholders. Additionally, the Technical Lead contributes to IT4IT projects managed directly within the CoE. Hands-on development is also a key aspect of this role, ensuring practical application of guidelines and best practices. The ideal candidate should possess strong software engineering skills, including UML, architecture, infrastructure, and SDLC, along with a robust security mindset. Autonomy, DevOps expertise, and cloud knowledge are highly valued in this role. The Technical Lead will also facilitate and animate the Benelux developers' Community of Practice (CoP) . Function Description • Establishing and documenting guidelines and best practices for development. • Ensuring buy-in and follow-up on the implementation of guidelines in the agile tribes. • Supporting developers in the tribes, providing coaching and mentoring as needed. • Collaboration with other technical leaders (analysis, testing , process, ...) to ensure a transversal alignment to cover mutual requirements. • IT stakeholders management: Engaging with local IT stakeholders to ensure alignment and effective communication ( Architecture , Infrastructure ,Risk & Security,...). • Act as local ambassador for BANKING Group and BANKING Personal Finance initiatives and requirements in the scope of development ( AI for developers, security champions,...). • Act as a representant of CoE ADM team in the Change Management Board ( CAB ) to validate the change requests. • Reporting to the Head of COE ADM with close collaboration with the IT Tribe Leads. Language Requirements Dutch: At least one local languages (FR or NL) French: At least one local languages (FR or NL) English: Sound knowledge of English as well as (at least) one local language Agile Requirements An "Agile mindset" which implies: • a positive attitude and pragmatism • thirst for knowledge: Agile is about learning and adapting. Knowledge sharing is key to success. • The goal of team success: Agile is about the success of the team, no individual success or heroic behavior. It is more important for the team to succeed than for the individual to have completed his/her tasks. • There is no failure, only feedback: Agile is about taking everything as lessons, adjusting actions based on the feedback, resulting in continuous improvement. Beyond the roles: Agile teams are cross-functional. All required disciplines are represented in the team (analysis, development, testing,). However, although team members have a primary role representing a discipline, they are expected to take on other roles and contribute to other disciplines whenever it helps towards reaching the sprint goal. Required Experience / Knowledge At least 5 years of relevant experience Technical Experience mandatory — Mastery of programming languages (Java), techniques, good practices and standards preferable — Delivery management preferable — Software architecture mandatory — DevOps expertise and cloud knowledge mandatory — Security acumen Business Experience mandatory — Experience with Scrum preferable — Banking/financial sector Soft Skills • Team player • Accurate • Rigorous and methodical • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills • Leadership and mentoring abilities • Problem-solving and decision-making skills • Autonomy is key for this role.