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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # IT Platforms Manager, Engineering Manager - **Company:** D Network - **Location:** Mechelen, Belgium - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Computer Engineering, DevOps, Machine Learning, Scrum Methodology, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Web Platforms, Information Technology - **Published:** October 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.vdab.be/vindeenjob/vacatures/74920560 ## About the Role 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)., * 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. ## Description 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