Project Manager

The assignment is within the Federal Judicial Police, a specialized organization focused on fighting organized crime, including cybercrime, terrorism, serious crime and drug trafficking. The Project Manager will lead technical teams and coordinate stakeholders under the supervision of the Program Manager. The role combines managerial and technical responsibilities in a critical operational environment. The steering committee will support key technical and managerial decisions.

During an initial four-to-six-month phase, the main focus will be maintenance and migration of a Windows legacy application used for investigation management and drafting official reports. The consultant will understand the existing solution, propose technical stabilization improvements, and ensure compatibility with upcoming Windows versions. In parallel, the consultant will support the launch of a new web-based Case Management platform for international police cooperation. After the legacy migration, the main focus will move to the new platform while maintenance and support of the legacy application continue until full replacement.

The new solution will use modern microservices and micro-frontend architecture and will be containerized, highly available and scalable. The Project Manager will oversee backend and frontend development, testing, source control, technical documentation, DevOps and deployment pipelines, including Infrastructure as Code. The role includes managing priorities, deadlines, Scrum ceremonies and project progress reporting according to steering committee milestones. The profile combines leadership, Agile/Scrum expertise and strong understanding of .NET, Angular, GitLab, Kubernetes, security and modern web architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical teams
• Coordinate project stakeholders
• Manage project priorities
• Provide project reporting
• Must Have
• Several years software development
• Technical role experience
• Required technologies mastery
• Leadership and stakeholder alignment
• Rapid network building
• Empathy and firmness
• Nice to Have
• Master IT preferred
• Infrastructure as Code experience
• Cryptography knowledge
• Second national language passive
• Police environment knowledge
• Federal Judicial Police knowledge
• Delphi

Additional Responsibilities

• Migrate Legacy features
• Oversee Legacy support
• Assess existing application
• Ensure Windows compatibility
• Ensure runtime stabilitySupervise frontend development
• Supervise integration testing
• Ensure source versioning
• Ensure technical documentation
• Lead DevOps activities
• Adjust project priorities
• Meet planned deadlines
• Report project progress
• Bachelor’s degree in IT at minimum
• Several years of software development experience, including technical roles
• Experience in a similar role
• Mastery of the technologies listed in the vacancy
• Leadership and ability to align technical, steering and client stakeholders
• Ability to build a network quickly
• Empathy combined with firmness when required
• Ability to adapt management style to heterogeneous personalities and profiles
• Ability to assess team members’ skills and capabilities and assign suitable tasks
• Ability to manage and adapt priorities to achieve objectives within deadlines
• Ability to align heterogeneous profiles around a common objective
• Persistence when facing major difficulties
• Ability to ease tensions and act as a regulator between stakeholders and the team
• Initiative and proactive anticipation of project challenges
• Strong prioritization and long-term perspective
• User and client orientation
• Clear, spontaneous communication, including explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Cross-functional technical, human, organizational and political perspective
• Analytical thinking and ability to identify root causes
• Active knowledge of Dutch or French

Technical skills

• Agile project management, particularly Scrum
• Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, Review and Retrospective
• Strong .NET (C#) knowledge applied to microservices
• REST API or gRPC concepts
• Event-driven architecture
• OpenID Connect and O365 authentication for backend and frontend
• Confirmed CI/CD experience and GitLab deployment pipelines
• GIT, branches, pull requests and code reviews
• Complex project management with Agile/Scrum
• Application modernization and migration from desktop client to modern web application
• Cybersecurity expertise and Security by Design
• UML