Tech Coordinator 

Location: Brussels

Onsite Presence: Required for 2 days per week

Work Regime: Full-time

Role Purpose:

The Tech Coordinator ensures technical coherence, release orchestration, and governance cascade across all product teams within a product area. The role bridges the structural gap between Tech Leads and organisation-level IT governance, ensuring that cross-cutting technical decisions reach product teams and are actioned, technical dependencies across teams are identified early and managed proactively, releases are coordinated coherently across the product line, and bottom-up technical risks, debt, and impediments are surfaced to the appropriate decision forums.

Core Responsibilities:

• Release Coordination:

  • Ensure alignment between business delivery commitments and technical deployment readiness.
  • Track release health: blockers, environment conflicts, regression risks, rollback readiness.
  • Coordinate across product lines or areas for release dependencies.
  • Serve as the escalation point when release conflicts cannot be resolved bilaterally between Tech Leads.
• Cross-Team Technical Dependency Management:
  • Facilitate bilateral resolution between Tech Leads; escalate only when bilateral resolution fails.
  • Maintain a visible, lightweight dependency register updated per release cycle.
  • Coordinate across product lines or areas for dependencies & conflicting priorities.
• Technical Quality & Operational Readiness:
  • Support Tech Leads in ensuring quality gates are met before deployment.
  • Ensure run/operate considerations are embedded in release planning.
  • Coordinate incident response escalation pathways when issues span multiple product teams.
  • Bridge to the architecture governance function.
  • Track & monitor applications quality and regressions across the entire product area & drive initiatives for continuous improvement.
• Technical Cost & Capacity Visibility:
  • Aggregate IT cost estimations and profile needs from Tech Leads to support budget and resource planning exercises.
  • Support the Product Leads with technical input for resource allocation decisions.

Requirements:

1. Background:
   • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
   • 5–8 years of experience, including a minimum of 3 years in leadership roles.
   • Proven experience managing tech leads.
   • Background in complex technical environments with significant team sizes.
   • Deep understanding of release management practices.
   • Exposure to compliance frameworks and proven ability to formalise and implement processes & best practices.
   • Proven experience working in organisations with strong product culture & emphasis on creating empowered teams.
   • Fluency in English and French or Dutch.
2. Must-have Behaviours:
   • Coordination through influence, not authority.
   • Bias toward lightweight, bilateral resolution over heavy governance.
   • Transparency: surfaces problems early rather than managing perception.
   • Comfort operating in ambiguity.
   • Ability to hold the tension between business urgency and technical rigour without defaulting to either.