IT Project and application manager

<p>We are looking for a candidate to reinforce our client's teams as an IT Project &amp; Application Manager to support the Ancillary Services (AS), Market and Adequacy (CRM) domains. These include real-time processes (EMS/SCADA). Important projects are taking part in the coming years (iCAROS, MARI, PICASSO, Ademar/CRM) which are refactoring significantly our client's IT systems and are leading to a need to reinforce the product team’s.<br/><br/>Your main tasks will include:</p> <ul><li>managing IT projects and/or product teams, including launching and following up on projects, planning their implementation, monitoring their scope, budget and timing, managing issues and risks, drafting progress reports, producing documentation, and so on;</li><li>Be part of an agile scrum team and participate in its ceremonies. Most of the time, the IT project manager is playing amongst other the scrum master role.</li><li>Working with the business to set priorities and content of the sprints;</li><li>Cooperating on and synchronising with other IT teams upstream or downstream of your domain with a view to dealing with planning constraints and realising synergies between systems;</li><li>Challenging requirements provided by the business prior to their approval;</li><li>Validating and verifying specifications drawn up by the business and translating these into a technical functional design based on Microsoft technologies (.NET);</li><li>Managing a team of internal and/or external developers together with the .NET technical manager and closely monitoring projects entailing software that is purchased or developed externally;</li><li>validating a strategy on tests and quality management and monitoring these during rollout;</li><li>follow-up of production release;</li><li>Supporting end users (second line) and driving the incident management process.</li><li>Organising and prioritising the maintenance of the developed solutions.</li></ul> <h3>Requirements</h3> <ul><li>You hold a university degree specialising in IT and/or electricity.</li><li>You have several years' relevant experience as a business analyst or manager of IT projects based on Microsoft architecture (.NET, Visual Studio, SQL Server). You can communicate easily with developers on technical matters.</li><li>Experience of agile development and/or lean management is mandatory.</li><li>Knowledge of and experience in the electricity and/or energy sector would be an asset.</li><li>3-10 years of experience.</li><li>You keep abreast of the latest IT developments. Demonstrable experience in digitalisation is an asset.</li><li>You can communicate easily with operators on technical and design matters.</li><li>You have an analytical mind and good organisational skills.</li><li>You are customer-driven and a good communicator and you work well in a team.</li><li>You are willing to work on certain projects outside Belgium (e.g. with 50Hertz, Elia Group's German transmission system operator).</li><li>You are fluent in English. Knowledge in Dutch or in French is an asset.</li></ul>