Tech Lead Telenet Shared Services

Tech Lead Telenet Shared Services

Telenet Group Holding

Mechelen, Belgium

The TSS cluster (Telenet Shared Services) within the Product Journey Tribe seeks a Tech Lead. This person modernizes our platforms, raises engineering standards, and accelerates delivery performance across multiple teams. This is not a people management role. You are the technical conscience of the team; the right hand of the Solution Architect, translating architecture vision into concrete guidance, standards, and templates that teams and consulting partners actually follow.

Your role as a Tech Lead

• You define how technology is implemented. Working closely with the Solution Architect, Product Owners, lead Business Analysts, and build partners, you co-create and maintain the domain architecture, challenge solution designs during analysis phases, and ensure architectural decisions land correctly in the codebase. The landscape spans cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), container orchestration (OpenShift), data platforms (Snowflake), and a broad integration layer - you bridge the gap between architecture diagrams and running software;
• You set up and maintain the artefacts and code review standards that keep quality high across teams. You own compliance - not through governance decks, but through hands-on reviews, code templates, and direct technical guidance. You ensure teams meet standards on security, maintainability, testability, observability, scalability, and code quality;
• Multiple delivery and vendor teams operate within this environment. You challenge their functional analysts and developers when translating business requirements into technical designs. You are the technical sparring partner that keeps external delivery honest and aligned with Telenet's Architectural and Software Factory guardrails;
• You actively steer technical debt reduction and code quality improvement. You monitor technology roadmaps, identify modernization opportunities, and plan the introduction of new technologies - including cloud-native patterns and AI adoption - through hands-on support, training, and inspirational sessions;
• You increase agility and intelligence in delivery, patching, and release processes. You guide teams through their cloud journey, bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical implementation.

What this role is NOT

• Not a team lead or scrum master: you don't manage people, sprints, or backlogs;
• Not a solution architect: you work alongside the SA as their technical sparring partner, not in place of them;
• Not a business analyst: you challenge Business Analysts and consulting Functional Analysts on technical feasibility; you don't own functional analysis;
• Not a project manager: your authority comes from technical expertise and the quality of your guidance, not from a reporting line.

Your profile as a Tech Lead

• Master's degree in IT/CS or equivalent through experience, with min. 5 years in a hands-on technical leadership or senior solution design role in an enterprise environment;
• Proven experience in designing scalable software systems, defining implementation standards, and performing architecture-level code reviews;
• Solid knowledge of cloud platforms - specifically AWS and/or GCP and experience with container orchestration (OpenShift/Kubernetes) and modern delivery pipelines (CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code);
• Understanding of integration architecture and patterns (API-led, event-driven, messaging);
• Familiarity with data platforms such as Snowflake and how they fit into a broader enterprise data architecture;
• Solid IT infrastructure knowledge - networking, security, compute, storage - enough to have informed conversations with infra teams and challenge vendor proposals. Also a genuine passion for technology and staying current with industry evolution, including AI adoption;
• The ability to translate complex technical topics into clear language for business stakeholders and senior management;
• A strong team player and communicator in English (Dutch is a plus).