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# Senior director digital & technology and head of digital products & engineering

- **Company:** Sharp Services
- **Location:** Heerenveen, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Automation of Tests, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, Continuous Integration, Data Integrity, Machine Learning, Release Management, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, User-Centered Design, Enterprise Data Management, Enterprise Software Applications, Spring Cloud, Generative AI, Data Management, Devsecops, GXP, Microservices
- **Published:** November 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://nl.talent.com/redirect?id=644274847180193949&source=vacant&utm_medium=xml&utm_campaign=marketing&utm_product=vacantnew_bulk&oapply=org_v2026-11&puid=edaaaddcddacaddebdd99ddcedd8addcada9bddf9dd89ddgbddfadd7bdadadd7cddc9dd7bea3addffddgaed2dddgaddgfddgaddgaddg9ddg6ed3gc9bbb9b3bee3ee33def3de93de73dedgdd9gddefddg3dee3de7gddg3ee33de93deg3ee33ee33deg3ee33ee33ee33ee33ee33ee3&pos=4&xml_batch_generation_id=fe83fc8b-0d54-4013-b6a6-3666bd810e6e&falcon=1&pid=352d4103472d&bpid=fbfe8b2e8724c88d14e558799eee1ec5

## About the Role

If you are passionate about combining technology, product thinking, and people leadership to deliver meaningful business impact, we would like to hear from you., * Preferably a Master's or Bachelor's degree in IT, minimum HBO (higher professional education) working and thinking level

 * 12+ years of progressive experience across digital products, software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership
 * Experience leading enterprise product engineering and digital transformation across multi-site or global environments
 * Strong expertise across:Enterprise software product engineering and solution architectureMicrosoft Azure or comparable cloud-native platformsAPIs, integrations, microservices, enterprise data, and analytics platformsAI and Generative AI product patterns, governance, and enterprise adoptionIoT/IIoT, connected manufacturing, shop-floor data, and Industry 4.0 solutionsDevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and secure engineering practicesProduct management, user-centered design, discovery, road mapping, and adoptionERP, MES, QMS, eBR, and other regulated manufacturing-system integration patterns, including GxP, validation/assurance, data integrity, privacy, and cybersecurity
 * Proven success moving products from incubation or prototype through scale and sustainable operation
 * Experience building and leading distributed, cross-functional engineering teams
 * Strong vendor, partner, commercial, and technology-cost management experience
 * A hands-on product and engineering leader who can move fluently from strategy to architecture and delivery
 * A product thinker who starts with user, customer, site, and business outcomes rather than technology for its own sake
 * Credible with executives, operators, quality leaders, engineers, architects, and software delivery teams
 * Experienced in regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals, life sciences, healthcare, manufacturing, or other complex environments
 * A strong builder who can attract, mentor, and scale diverse teams across countries and organizational boundaries
 * Pragmatic, commercially aware, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-accountability, value-focused environment
 * Willing to travel to Sharp Locations for short periods (depending on the location)

## Description

* Build, lead and scale a high-performing global team across digital product management, software engineering, architecture, data, AI and platform engineering.
 * Establish the organization design, talent strategy, hiring, performance management, leadership development, succession planning and culture required to create sustainable internal execution capability.
 * Develop leaders and technical talent across geographies while creating clear accountability, engineering standards and effective collaboration across internal teams and strategic partners.
 * Own the strategy, roadmap, and portfolio for enterprise digital products and reusable platforms aligned to Sharp's growth, customer, manufacturing, quality, and productivity priorities
 * Translate business opportunities into clear product charters, target outcomes, architecture direction, delivery plans, and investment cases
 * Establish product-management disciplines spanning discovery, prioritization, design, delivery, adoption, lifecycle ownership, and measurable value realization
 * Create reusable capabilities, shared services, data products, and integration patterns that can scale across business units, regions, and sites
 * Partner with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data, applications, quality, and business leaders to maintain a coherent global technology ecosystem
 * Build and lead a high-performing internal product engineering capability across architecture, software development, integration, quality engineering, and platform operations
 * Define pragmatic reference architectures for cloud-native applications, APIs, microservices, data platforms, mobile experiences, and AI-enabled solutions
 * Establish disciplined secure software development lifecycle, DevSecOps, CI/CD, testing, observability, release management, documentation, and support practices
 * Remain close enough to architecture and engineering decisions to challenge designs, remove delivery barriers, and ensure solutions are scalable, supportable, and secure
 * Make clear build, buy, extend, and partner decisions while retaining internal ownership of product strategy, architecture, intellectual capital, and technical standards
 * Lead digital solutions across manufacturing intelligence, line visibility, connected equipment, IoT/IIoT, process parameters, electronic-record workflows, planning and scheduling, quality, and customer collaboration
 * Partner with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Cybersecurity, and site teams to embed GxP, validation, data integrity, privacy, security, and IT/OT requirements from design through operation
 * Move high-value prototypes and proofs of concept into governed enterprise products with clear ownership, adoption plans, operational support, and measurable business outcomes
 * Serve as the Digital Engineering & Technology partner to Commercial and Clinical leadership, participating in operating rhythms, engaging directly with sites and shop floors, and translating business needs into an actionable digital roadmap
 * Balance local regulatory, customer, process, and operating realities with global standards and platforms; provide visible ownership for prioritization, escalation, delivery transparency, and value realization
 * Accelerate enterprise value-creation priorities, by converting opportunity concepts into executable products, releases, adoption, and realized benefits
 * Define and track product outcomes, OKRs, delivery health, adoption, risk, product economics, and business value; communicate progress clearly to executive stakeholders
 * Reduce avoidable vendor dependency and repeated external delivery costs by building internal capability, reusable assets, strong technical governance, and disciplined sourcing
 * Help shape and lead a globally distributed engineering model, strategic partner and potential future digital capability-center talent
 * Establish and lead enterprise capabilities across AI, Generative AI, Data Science, advanced analytics and machine-learning engineering, including responsible-AI governance, scalable platform patterns and disciplined model lifecycle management.
 * Convert AI, data and analytics opportunities into secure, governed products that generate measurable commercial, operational, manufacturing and quality outcomes.
 * Own the digital products and engineering portfolio, associated investment priorities, delivery operating model and budget, ensuring that technology investment produces measurable value and reduces avoidable external-vendor dependency.
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