IT Team Leader

A leading European energy infrastructure organization is looking for a senior Team Leader & Transition Manager to join its IT Architecture organization. The consultant will guide the Solution Architecture team while leading the transition toward a new operating model that merges Architecture and Product teams within approximately three months. The role will also contribute to the Enterprise Architecture team by helping establish governance, decision-making principles and a sustainable architecture operating model.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement the target architecture operating model together with the existing teams and Enterprise Architecture stakeholders.
• Establish governance principles and decision-making frameworks.
• Clarify roles, responsibilities and interfaces between Product, Architecture and Delivery teams.
• Drive and monitor the transition plan while ensuring continuity of delivery.
• Ensure rapid implementation of the target operating model.
• Identify and remove organizational, process and stakeholder blockers.
• Facilitate the integration of Architecture and Product teams.
• Build trust and collaboration between teams and accelerate adoption of new ways of working.
• Create momentum and team cohesion during the transition.
• Ensure the merged organization becomes operational, effective and self-sustaining within the transition period.
• Provide leadership with regular progress updates and pragmatic recommendations.
• Manage the workforce of Solution Architects across projects, products and other digital initiatives.
• Manage architecture requests and Solution Architect assignments.
• Maintain assignments within the PPM tool SciForma.
• Participate in the IT Architecture steering group.
• Establish and enforce quality controls within the Solution Architecture team.
• Monitor Solution Architecture activities and manage operational alerts and issues.
• Act as a facilitator between strategic architecture vision and operational execution.

Must have

• More than 10 years of experience in transition management and project management.
• Strong experience with IT processes and architecture methodologies.
• Knowledge of standards and methodologies such as ITIL, TOGAF, ArchiMate and Domain-Driven Design.
• Experience with cloud-native architecture patterns.
• Ability to promote and enforce reference architectures.
• Knowledge of Microservices Architecture.
• Knowledge of Event-Driven Architecture.
• Familiarity with Gartner architecture frameworks such as TIME for Application Portfolio Management.
• Experience with architecture modelling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect or equivalent.
• Ability to work autonomously and proactively engage stakeholders at different organizational levels.
• Strong result-oriented mindset.
• Strong collaboration and team-player mindset.
• Very good presentation and communication skills.
• Good command of English and Dutch and/or French.
• Ability to work on-site in Brussels approximately two days per week.
• For non-EU consultants working in Belgium, a valid Belgian work permit and residence permit are required.

Should have

• Experience leading or coordinating teams of Solution Architects.
• Strong Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture background.
• Experience translating architecture strategy into operational actions.
• Experience defining architecture governance and decision-making models.
• Experience managing organizational and stakeholder dependencies during transformations.li>
• Experience managing architecture capacity, requests and assignments across multiple digital initiatives.

Nice to have

• Experience within the Energy & Utilities sector.
• Experience with mergers, organizational integrations or similar transformation initiatives.
• Real-world experience architecting, designing and delivering IT products in an Agile environment.
• Experience with SciForma or comparable Project and Portfolio Management tools.

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