Senior Project Manager – European Entry/Exit System (EES) & Business Intelligence Platforms

Context
The candidate will lead the implementation, integration, and operational evolution of European border management systems, in particular EES, VIS, ETIAS, and the Business Intelligence platforms associated with the Belgian National Message Broker.

Main Mission

• Ensure governance, planning, and delivery of large-scale European IT projects.
• Guarantee regulatory compliance (GDPR, NIS2, EU requirements).
• Coordinate Belgian authorities, technical partners, and European institutions.

Main Responsibilities

• Management of scope, budget, planning, risks, and resources.
• Implementation of reporting and governance mechanisms.
• Supervision of integrations between European systems and national platforms.
• Management of operational preparation, testing, and deployments.
• Monitoring of security, audits, and compliance assessments.

Business Intelligence and Analytics

• Define BI and KPI strategies.
• Supervise executive and operational dashboards.
• Transform business needs into actionable indicators and analyses.
• Ensure data governance and quality.

ELK and Observability Expertise

• Elasticsearch: architecture, retention, and performance.
• Logstash: data ingestion and transformation.
• Kibana: dashboards, monitoring, and reporting.
• Anomaly detection, trend analysis, and observability.

Profile Sought

• Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in IT project management.
• Proven experience (min. 5 years) in governmental, security, or critical infrastructure environments will be considered an asset.
• In-depth knowledge of EES, VIS, SIS, ETIAS systems and interoperability.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Technical Skills

• Power BI, Tableau, Grafana.
• ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).
• Linux, Windows Server, Docker, APIs, hybrid Cloud.
• DevOps, CI/CD, and secrets management (Vault or equivalent).

Languages

• Fluent in French, Dutch, and English (spoken and written).