Team Lead IT Strategy Office Consultant

This is a consultancy mission at a client site, where you will represent Keystone Solutions as a Team Lead for the IT Strategy Office. As a Keystone Solutions consultant, you will be hired to work on client projects, bringing your expertise and our values to every engagement.

Mission Context:

The client has recently established an IT Strategy Office to serve as the strategic engine and trusted advisor to executive leadership. The office translates executive vision into actionable, prioritized roadmaps and delivers high-quality strategic work products across a diverse range of topics.

Responsibilities (under Keystone Solutions' consultancy model):

• Lead and manage a compact, high-calibre team of senior IT strategists, architects, and principal consultants, all with extensive experience.
• Drive speed, clarity, and impact in all deliverables.
• Personally lead or oversee the rapid production of high-quality strategic deliverables, including strategy papers, target architectures, decision memos, business cases, risk assessments, vendor evaluations, feasibility studies, resilience scenarios, and cost-benefit models.
• Cover a broad spectrum of enterprise IT topics: cloud and infrastructure modernization, application portfolio simplification and rationalization, AI adoption, zero-trust and resilience, data access strategy, operating model redesign, technology integration, and IT sustainability.
• Deliver most artifacts within 1-4 weeks, with many executive "quick-turn" requests completed in 2-5 business days without sacrificing depth or credibility.
• Oversee the delivery of the multi-year IT Strategy roadmap, ensuring validation at both company and group levels.
• Engage in ad-hoc assignments with other entities in Belgium as required.

Leadership & People Management:

• Develop and retain senior talent to ensure team success.
• Remove roadblocks, allocate resources, and ensure consistent excellence in output.
• Foster a culture of intellectual rigor, constructive challenge, speed, and neutrality.

Governance & Communication:

• Maintain and publish the team backlog, optimizing workload and allocation, balancing ad-hoc executive requests with longer-term strategic initiatives, and ensuring clear prioritization and agreement on outcomes.
• Run the weekly IT Strategy Board, chaired by executive leadership and attended by key IT stakeholders.
• Prepare concise, decision-oriented materials; drive clear decisions and actions; manage follow-up and accountability.
• Ensure effective communication of IT Strategy Board outcomes to architecture and engineering teams.
• Align with business strategy teams and IT Architecture.
• Ensure the team operates efficiently as a central hub for strategic information, with superior knowledge management practices.

Project Management:

• Act as initiative owner for transversal initiatives, including Architecture Simplification and Application Lifecycle.
• Ensure the IT4IT portfolio of initiatives is fully aligned with IT Strategy Board members, with clarity on scope, outcomes, KPIs, roadmaps, and prevention of scope creep., * As a consultant, you will work on-site at leading organizations, embracing the dynamic nature of consultancy and the diversity of challenges across various client environments.
• Keystone Solutions offers turbo-charged learning and professional development, ensuring you gain broad and deep expertise.
• We are committed to skyrocketing your ambition and supporting your career growth within our consultancy framework.
• Being a "K-Stone" means bringing our core values-excellence, integrity, and collaboration-to every engagement.

If you are ready to tackle technical and strategic challenges in a dynamic consultancy environment, apply today .

Do you have experience in Project management?, * At least 15+ years in enterprise IT/technology strategy, project delivery, management consulting, and/or senior architecture roles., * Mandatory: Proven experience leading complex, strategic initiatives in IT transformation, cloud strategy, innovation management, application simplification, AI strategy, cyber resilience, operating model redesign, and digital transformation.

• Superior written and verbal communication skills, able to simplify complex topics for both technical and executive audiences.
• Strong personal brand as a trusted advisor to CIOs/CTOs in previous roles.
• Experience mentoring or leading high-calibre professionals in a collaborative setting.
• Preferable: Hands-on architecture background (e.g., former Enterprise Architect, Domain Architect, or Distinguished Engineer).
• Successful delivery as IT Project Manager for large initiatives and/or program manager.
• Published articles, whitepapers, or conference talks on IT strategy topics.
• Prior experience in a top-tier strategy or technical consultancy.
• Broad understanding of current technology trends (AI/ML, Cloud, Cybersecurity, Platform Engineering).
• Experience in Retail Banking.

Business Experience:

• Proactive and driven, with a strong sense of urgency and ownership.
• Diplomatic and influential, able to align diverse, senior stakeholders without formal authority.
• Intellectually confident but low ego, able to challenge constructively.
• Resilient and pragmatic, comfortable with ambiguity and pressure, focused on delivering practical value.

Soft Skills:

• Communicative, with strong networking and negotiation skills.
• Organised, methodical, and rigorous.
• Creative and solution-oriented.
• Team player with motivating and listening abilities.
• Decisive and able to make sound decisions.

Language Requirements:

• Sound knowledge of English as well as at least one local language (Dutch or French).