Freelance - Senior IT Project Manager (Application Migration & Transformation)

📍 Brussels | Hybrid

📅 Long-term mission

💼 Freelance Contract

🌍French is mandatory, English is required, and Dutch is a plus

🎯 Your Mission

Join a strategic transformation program focused on the modernization, migration and implementation of critical business applications.

As a Senior IT Project Manager, you will lead complex application projects from assessment and planning through implementation, integration, testing and go-live. You will coordinate multiple stakeholders, vendors and delivery teams while ensuring business continuity and successful adoption of new solutions.

🚀 Key Responsibilities

✅ Lead end-to-end application migration and implementation projects

✅ Manage application modernization and transformation initiatives

✅ Coordinate business, IT, architecture, infrastructure and vendor teams

✅ Define project roadmaps, delivery plans and migration strategies

✅ Manage risks, dependencies, budgets and project governance

✅ Oversee testing phases (UAT, SIT, integration testing) and cutover activities

✅ Ensure seamless integration between systems, platforms and third-party solutions

✅ Drive stakeholder engagement up to senior management level

✅ Support change management, adoption and operational readiness

💻 Technical Environment

🔹 Enterprise Applications & Digital Platforms

🔹 Application Migration & Modernization

🔹 System Integration & APIs

🔹 Cloud Transformation Projects

🔹 Legacy System Replacement

🔹 Customer-Facing & Business-Critical Applications

🔹 Agile, Scrum, SAFe & Waterfall Methodologies

🔹 Jira, Confluence, MS Project & SharePoint

🔹 Vendor & Offshore Delivery Management

⭐ Ideal Profile

✔ 10+ years of experience in IT Project or Program Management

✔ Proven experience delivering application implementation, migration and transformation projects

✔ Strong understanding of enterprise applications and system integration landscapes

✔ Experience managing software deployments, migrations, upgrades or platform replacements

✔ Ability to bridge technical and business stakeholders effectively

✔ Experience coordinating multiple suppliers and delivery partners

✔ Strong expertise in governance, planning, budgeting and risk management

✔ Excellent communication skills with exposure to Director and Executive-level stakeholders

✔ Autonomous, delivery-oriented and hands-on mindset