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. You're Fluent in English with 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.