Our client is looking for a Tech Coordinator
About the Mission
Are you excited to work on a project for a key Belgian player in the energy landscape?
The Belgian and European energy landscape is in full swing. Our client, active in the energy sector, plays a crucial role as part of a European transmission system operator — ensuring the reliability and sustainability of electricity supply across the country.
Side-by-side with other Contingent Workers and client staff, you will play a part in building a sustainable, green, and reliable energy infrastructure that stimulates economic growth and reduces our ecological footprint. Only together can we make the biggest impact possible!
We believe in the power of diversity — we are convinced that an inclusive and diverse work environment leads to more innovation, creativity, and better results.
Role Overview
Organisational Anchoring
- Positioned at the Product Area level
- Works in tandem with the Product Leads (business side), serving as the technical coordination counterpart across all product lines
- Does not hold hierarchical authority over Tech Leads or developers
Role Purpose
The Tech Coordinator ensures technical coherence, release orchestration, and governance cascade across all product teams within a product area. The role bridges the structural gap between Tech Leads and organisation-level IT governance (CIO, Architecture boards, technical chapters, architects, etc.), ensuring that:
- Cross-cutting technical decisions reach product teams and are actioned
- Technical dependencies across teams are identified early and managed proactively
- Releases are coordinated coherently across the product line
- Bottom-up technical risks, debt, and impediments are surfaced to the appropriate decision forums
Core Responsibilities
1. Release Coordination
- Ensure alignment between business delivery commitments (Product Lead/PO level) and technical deployment readiness
- Track release health: blockers, environment conflicts, regression risks, rollback readiness
- Coordinate across product lines, areas, and clusters for release dependencies
- Serve as the escalation point when release conflicts cannot be resolved bilaterally between Tech Leads
2. Cross-Team Technical Dependency Management
- Facilitate bilateral resolution between Tech Leads; escalate only when bilateral resolution fails
- Maintain a visible, lightweight dependency register updated per release cycle
- Coordinate across product lines, areas, and clusters for dependencies and conflicting priorities
3. Technical Quality & Operational Readiness
- Support Tech Leads in ensuring quality gates are met before deployment (architecture compliance, testing coverage, security checks)
- Ensure run/operate considerations are embedded in release planning — not treated as afterthoughts
- Coordinate incident response escalation pathways when issues span multiple product teams
- Bridge to the architecture governance function
- Track and monitor application quality and regressions across the entire product area and drive initiatives for continuous improvement
4. Technical Cost & Capacity Visibility
- Aggregate IT cost estimations and profile needs from Tech Leads to support budget and resource planning exercises (5-year OKR, QBR, etc.)
- Support Product Leads with technical input for resource allocation decisions
Requirements
Background
A senior technical profile with breadth across the product line's technology stack:
| Criteria | Details |
|---|---|
| Education | Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field |
| Experience | 5–8 years total, including minimum 3 years in leadership/management roles |
| Leadership | Proven experience managing Tech Leads |
| Environment | Background in complex technical environments with significant team sizes |
| Release Management | Deep understanding of release management practices |
| Compliance | Exposure to compliance frameworks; proven ability to formalise and implement processes and best practices |
| Product Culture | Proven experience in organisations with a strong product culture and emphasis on empowered, outcome-driven teams |
| Languages | Fluency in English and French or Dutch |
Must-Have Behaviours
- Coordination through influence, not authority
- Bias toward lightweight, bilateral resolution over heavy governance
- Transparency — surfaces problems early rather than managing perception
- Comfort operating in ambiguity
- Ability to hold the tension between business urgency and technical rigour without defaulting to either
Additional Information
| Location | Brussels |
| On-site Presence | Minimum 2 days per week on site (by default) |
| Work Regime | Full-time |
⚠️ Important — Non-EU Candidates: Please ensure candidates comply with the following:
- Possess a work permit allowing the individual to work in Belgium
- Hold a valid residence permit confirming the right of residence in Belgium
Why This Mission?
There's something electric in the air with this mission! ⚡
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Innovative & impactful project — Our client encourages innovation and collaboration. You will be at the forefront of the energy transition, contributing to ground-breaking technologies designed to accelerate it. A one-of-a-kind opportunity to demonstrate your skills and develop your competences.
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Focus on well-being at work — Maximum effort is put into a positive work culture in which your well-being is central.
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A diverse team of co-workers — Our client puts a high value on diversity and inclusion. You will join a diverse and passionate team that enjoys sharing knowledge and leading the way towards a more sustainable future — together.
