Head of IT (H/F/X)

• Team leadership & coaching - Provide mentorship and day-to-day support to developers and data scientists, fostering a culture of continuous learning. Help senior engineers grow junior colleagues and keep knowledge flowing across the team.
• Technical project leadership - Lead the delivery of technical projects end to end - infrastructure, platform, security, tooling and cross-cutting engineering initiatives - from scoping through rollout. Business-driven projects are owned by Product Owners; you partner closely with them while taking the lead on the technical roadmap and its execution.
• Recruitment & onboarding - Lead hiring for developers, infrastructure engineers, and data & AI specialists. Design and oversee onboarding that integrates new hires quickly and effectively into the team and its practices.
• Process refinement - Work with Product Owners to shape and fine-tune agile practices (backlog management, sprint planning, retrospectives) that maximise productivity and keep focus on strategic priorities. Continuously trial new techniques - such as AI-assisted coding and process automation - to raise efficiency and quality.
• Visibility & communication - Ensure transparent reporting of achievements, roadmaps and risks to stakeholders. Run regular updates on progress, risks and resource needs, and build a shared understanding of priorities across engineering, product and business.
• Collaboration & facilitation - Act as the bridge between developers, Product Owners, data scientists and external partners. Facilitate discussions on requirements and dependencies so projects run smoothly and teams stay aligned.
• Technical oversight - Keep enough depth in our stack (AWS, .NET, Angular, Python, event-driven micro-services) to contribute to architectural discussions and understand the challenges your team faces. Champion security best practices and infrastructure improvements, while delegating implementation to subject-matter experts.
• Culture & growth - Foster an environment where engineers feel accountable and empowered to take ownership. Encourage curiosity and a pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset, and promote AI and emerging tools that streamline work and sharpen the team’s skills.

• Experience managing engineering or cross-functional teams, with a track record of coaching people and growing their skills.
• A record of leading technical projects or initiatives through to delivery.
• Proven ability to design and refine agile or lean processes that improve delivery effectiveness.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; comfortable presenting plans, progress and blockers to technical and non-technical audiences alike.
• Organised and detail-oriented, able to juggle multiple initiatives without losing sight of the big picture.
• Comfortable introducing new tools and techniques (e.g., AI-assisted development) and measuring their impact.
• Enough technical literacy in cloud infrastructure, web technologies and DevOps pipelines to understand team challenges and shape high-level decisions.
• Fluency in French or Dutch alongside professional English.

Nice to have

• Prior experience in fintech or other regulated environments.
• Experience working with near-shore or hybrid teams.

• Opportunity to be part of a great and extremely motivating start-up adventure.
• A pleasant working environment, conveniently located outside Brussels and easily accessible by car, avoiding the usual traffic.
• A company culture valuing empowerment and bringing career development perspectives.
• Competitive salary package related to your profile and experience.