IT Platforms Manager, Engineering Manager

D-NETWORK is looking for a permanent IT Desktop/Web Platforms Manager, Engineering Manager for a customer based in Mechelen.

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• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in software engineering, including significant time (at least 3 years) in engineering leadership or people-management roles.
• Proven experience leading teams delivering complex, long-lived production software where reliability, quality, and risk management are critical.
• An expertise in the medical device or healthcare industry sector is a big plus.
• Contract in CDI/ Permanent role/ Employee (no freelancer for this opportunity).

Position Overview :

The Engineering Manager (Desktop/Web Platforms) plays a pivotal leadership role in this transformation.

This role is a technical people-leadership and engineering accountability role.

It is not a Product Owner, Project Manager, Scrum Master, or Tech Lead role.

The Engineering Manager partners closely with Architecture, Tech Leads, DevOps, V&V, QA, Regulatory Affairs, Product, and Delivery Management to ensure teams deliver medical-grade software safely, predictably, and at scale.

The primary purpose of this role is to:

• Build and sustain high-performing engineering teams

• Ensure predictable, high-quality execution

• Strengthen engineering maturity and standards adoption

• Reduce delivery risk and technical ambiguity

• Ensure compliance Quality Management System (QMS) and regulatory obligations

Profile / Requirements

• Master degree in Engineering /Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering.

• Demonstrated, senior-level experience leading engineering teams responsible for complex, long-lived, production software where failure has material business, safety, or regulatory consequences.

• Proven record of people leadership over execution: you build, scale, and correct teams through expectations, systems, and accountability—not by being the smartest engineer in the room.

• Unambiguous experience hiring, developing, and performance-managing engineers, including senior engineers and Tech Leads; comfortable making hard calls to protect team and product integrity.

• Sufficient technical depth to challenge architectural, quality, and delivery decisions credibly, without acting as the architect, Tech Lead, or primary implementer.

• Direct exposure to regulated, safety-critical, or audit-driven software environments; understands traceability, reproducibility, documentation, and compliance as first-class engineering concerns, not overhead.

• Demonstrated ability to deliver predictably in environments with conflicting priorities, incomplete information,

and regulatory constraints, using disciplined planning and risk management rather than optimism.

• Proven capability to operate in global, distributed organisations, aligning teams across sites, time zones, and cultures while maintaining consistent engineering standards.

• Strong executive judgment: able to make, explain, and defend difficult trade-offs that prioritise long-term engineering health, patient safety, and organisational credibility over short-term wins.

• Ability to represent engineering reality clearly and without dilution to Directors, VPs, and cross-functional leaders, including transparent communication of risks, constraints, and consequences.

• Demonstrated intolerance for weak engineering discipline, hero-driven execution, and ambiguity in ownership or decision-making

• High personal standards for integrity, accountability, and professionalism in a medical or safety-critical context.

• Excellent command of technical English; precise, concise, and credible in written and verbal communication.

• Willingness to travel as required to maintain alignment, trust, and execution across global teams.

• Advanced degree in Software Engineering or a closely related discipline, demonstrating depth in software design, systems thinking, and long-term technical decision-making.

• Demonstrated experience designing, evolving, or governing complex software architectures in regulated or safety-critical environments (medical devices strongly preferred), with clear understanding of design-for-quality, traceability, and auditability.

• Strong working knowledge of applicable medical-device or safety-critical regulations, with practical experience embedding compliance into everyday engineering practices rather than treating it as a downstream activity.

• Credible understanding of modern AI/ML concepts and their application boundaries, risks, and governance considerations in regulated software systems (not hands-on model building, but informed leadership and judgment).

• Demonstrated ability to anticipate future technology shifts and guide teams through adoption decisions responsibly, balancing innovation with safety, maintainability, and regulatory expectations.

• Build senior leadership judgment by owning engineering direction, quality posture, and delivery capability where compliance and reliability are mandatory.

• Operate at executive level, balancing technology, regulation, delivery risk, and long-term organisational health with Directors and VPs.