Program Delivery Manager – Freelance – West Flanders/Hybrid
We're looking for a Program Delivery Manager – Technology to join our team in Belgium. You will lead large-scale client engagements across the Benelux region, ensuring successful delivery of complex program.
This role holds full accountability for end-to-end delivery, client relationships, and commercial performance. It requires sufficient technical depth to challenge architectural decisions, diagnose delivery issues, and engage credibly with senior engineering stakeholders. The role also encompasses developing the management team and driving continuous improvement across the account.
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end delivery from initiation through the full life cycle, ensuring program is delivered successfully and in line with EPAM processes
- Manage client relationships and expectations, representing delivery at project, program and governance levels
- Address client issues, identify and manage engagement risks and ensure client responsibilities are executed
- Develop and maintain delivery plans and coordinate the preparation of proposals and statements of work
- Run multiple activity streams and coordinate with technical and business groups across SDLC and IT service management processes
- Be accountable for all aspects of delivery including financial, sourcing, implementation, business and regulatory requirements
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary nearshore and offshore teams including product owners, architects, engineers and QA experts to drive estimates, delivery plans and retrospectives
Requirements
Experience
- Significant delivery experience leading large, complex, multi-team programs (50 FTE, multi-year duration)
- Proven track record delivering enterprise commerce or large-scale digital transformation programs in a services/consulting context
- Demonstrated experience with legacy-to-microservices modernization (monolith decomposition, strangler-fig patterns, phased migrations)
- Experience delivering for retail, grocery, or consumer-goods clients strongly preferred
- Track record of owning program budgets of $10M annually
Technical & Methodological Fluency
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, cloud-native delivery (AWS / Azure / GCP), CI/CD, DevOps, and modern engineering practices
- Strong knowledge of best-practice project and programme management, including the SDLC/PDLC, with the ability to identify gaps and implement required improvements
- Fluent in agile delivery at scale (SAFe, LeSS, or equivalent), with the judgment to apply hybrid models when needed
- Able to engage credibly in architecture and technical discussions with senior engineers and client architects
- Practical understanding of applying AI solutions to improve SDLC efficiency
Leadership & Communication
- Executive presence; proven ability to communicate, influence and negotiate at VP and C-level
- Strong written and verbal communication in English (additional Dutch is a plus)
- Experience leading geographically distributed teams across multiple time zones
- Skilled in commercial conversations: change requests, scope negotiation, contract amendments
Nice to Have
- Experience operating within or alongside a global system integrator delivery model
- Background in pre-sales, solutioning, or commercial deal shaping for large engagements