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.

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• 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,