Mission Overview:
Join Keystone Solutions as a Senior Project Manager (Software Delivery Lead) for a consultancy mission at our client. As a Keystone Solutions consultant, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of approved SPC roadmap scope, converting product priorities into an integrated delivery plan, coordinating the teams and dependencies required to execute it, maintaining transparent progress and risk reporting, removing or escalating blockers, and ensuring that releases are ready from development, quality, technical and operational perspectives.
Consultancy Model at Keystone Solutions:
- Consultancy nature of work: You will operate as a Keystone Solutions consultant, working primarily on-site at the client location (or in a hybrid setup as defined by the client), embedded with product, engineering, and operational teams to deliver tangible outcomes.
- Dynamic projects: Expect diverse challenges across multiple workstreams, shared components, integrations, testing activities, infrastructure or deployment dependencies, and contributions from internal teams or external suppliers, creating a coherent delivery view across contributors.
- Turbo-charged learning and development: Access Keystone Solutions' professional development support, coaching, and knowledge-sharing to deepen your delivery, Agile, and release management skills across varied client environments.
- Ambition skyrocketing within a consultancy framework: Accelerate your career through varied client engagements, broader responsibilities, and exposure to multi-team program delivery.
- Keystone Solutions values in action: As a K-Stone, you embody transparency, pragmatic structure, persistence, and collaboration—bringing these values to every client engagement and delivery forum.
Role Summary and Primary Scope (as a Keystone Solutions consultant at the client):
- Title: Senior Project Manager; Software Delivery Lead (useful search aliases include Software Delivery Manager; Technical Project Manager; IT Delivery Lead; Senior Project Manager for product development).
- Primary scope: Primary focus on SPC software releases; may also coordinate approved custom-development and parking-technology deployment initiatives.
- Core accountability: Convert approved scope into a credible integrated plan and drive execution through development, testing and release.
- Main hand-off: Receives prioritised product scope from the Product Manager and returns transparent delivery commitments, progress, risks and release outcomes.
Context (delivered under Keystone Solutions' consultancy model):
SPC delivery may involve several development streams, shared components, integrations, testing activities, infrastructure or deployment dependencies and contributions from internal teams or external suppliers. The role creates one coherent delivery view across those contributors.
The assignment is broader than a Scrum Master role. Agile facilitation is useful, but the consultant is accountable for planning, coordination, dependency management, issue resolution, stakeholder reporting and delivery outcomes. The role is also more product-oriented than a generic project manager working on a single one-off implementation.
Key Responsibilities (performed as a Keystone Solutions consultant working closely with the client):
- Delivery planning and commitment
- Translate the approved roadmap and release scope into an integrated delivery plan with milestones, workstreams, dependencies, decision points and target release dates.
- Coordinate effort estimates, capacity assumptions and delivery sequencing with engineering leads, QA, architecture, infrastructure and other contributing teams.
- Test the credibility of delivery expectations and make constraints or confidence levels visible before commitments are communicated.
- Define a delivery baseline and manage changes to scope, timing, capacity and dependencies.
- Prepare alternative scenarios and trade-off options when the requested scope cannot be delivered within the expected timeframe.
- Execution management and team coordination
- Maintain an accurate end-to-end view of progress across development, integration, testing, defect resolution and release preparation.
- Ensure that owners, due dates and acceptance conditions are clear for milestones and cross-team actions.
- Coordinate teams that may use different delivery cadences while preserving a single integrated release plan.
- Facilitate the delivery forums needed to maintain momentum, resolve ambiguity and support timely decisions.
- Follow through on commitments and challenge optimistic or incomplete status reporting.
- Dependency, risk and issue management
- Identify and actively manage technical, organisational, supplier, environment, data, security and operational dependencies.
- Maintain a practical RAID log covering risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies, with owners and mitigation actions.
- Detect blockers early, organise the right people to solve them and escalate when resolution exceeds the team's authority or timeframe.
- Assess the impact of emerging issues on scope, quality, cost and timing, and present decision options.
- Ensure that dependencies between development teams and shared services are explicitly planned rather than discovered late.
- Scope and decision control
- Protect the agreed delivery baseline while enabling controlled product decisions when new information emerges.
- Work with the Product Manager to clarify whether requested changes are mandatory for the release, can be deferred, or require a roadmap decision.
- Maintain a decision log and ensure that decisions are communicated to affected teams.
- Prevent hidden scope growth and make the consequence of trade-offs visible.
- Escalate unresolved priority conflicts through the agreed governance path.
- Quality and release readiness
- Coordinate release readiness across software completion, integration, testing, defects, documentation, deployment preparation, support readiness and stakeholder communication.
- Ensure that entry and exit criteria for key delivery stages are defined and understood.
- Track critical defects and residual risks, supporting fact-based go/no-go decisions.
- Coordinate release rehearsals, cutover or rollout activities when relevant.
- Lead post-release review and ensure that delivery lessons and follow-up actions are captured.
- Governance and communication
- Provide concise and reliable reporting on progress, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions and forecast dates.
- Adapt communication to delivery teams, product stakeholders, tribe leadership and steering forums.
- Organise governance meetings only where they support decisions or remove obstacles, avoiding ceremony without outcome.
- Maintain traceability between roadmap scope, delivery plan, status and release result.
- Create a predictable working relationship with the Product Manager and make product-versus-delivery accountabilities explicit.
- Agile delivery practices
- Use Scrum, Kanban or hybrid practices pragmatically according to the type of work and team maturity.
- Support effective refinement, planning, reviews and retrospectives without reducing the role to ceremony facilitation.
- Promote transparent flow, realistic commitments and continuous improvement.
- Help teams address systemic delivery constraints rather than repeatedly treating symptoms.
- Coordinate product releases across teams even when individual teams manage their own sprint backlogs.
Role Boundaries (within the client engagement):
- This is not a ceremony-only Scrum Master role. The consultant is accountable for integrated delivery outcomes. Facilitation is one method used to achieve delivery; it is not the complete job.
- Does not independently define product priority, business value or long-term product roadmap.
- Does not replace engineering leadership or prescribe detailed technical solutions to developers.
- Does not act as the line manager of all contributors, but coordinates commitments and escalates through the appropriate managers.
- Does not report progress based only on sprint velocity; the role must maintain an end-to-end release forecast and dependency view.
- Does not accept an unrealistic deadline silently; the role must expose assumptions, confidence, risks and viable options.
Experience and Capabilities (required for consultancy success at the client):
- Required
- At least 5 years of experience leading delivery of complex software products, releases or multi-team IT projects.
- Demonstrated ownership of integrated plans, dependencies, risks, milestones and executive delivery reporting.
- Strong experience coordinating software development, QA, architecture, infrastructure and operational readiness.
- Ability to challenge estimates, maintain realistic forecasts and manage scope-versus-time trade-offs.
- Practical experience with Agile delivery, combined with the discipline to manage cross-team and release-level commitments.
- Strong problem-solving, facilitation, negotiation and escalation skills.
- Clear written and spoken English in an international environment.
- Strong advantages
- Experience delivering operational, industrial, device-connected or hardware-integrated software.
- Knowledge of parking management, access control, mobility, payment, ticketing or similar transactional systems.
- Experience with product releases involving multiple countries, suppliers or deployment waves.
- Technical literacy regarding APIs, integrations, environments, CI/CD, testing and production operations.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, MS Project or comparable planning and delivery tooling.
- PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum or similar certification, provided it is supported by hands-on delivery experience.
- French and/or Dutch in addition to fluent English.
Personal Qualities (what makes a great K-Stone consultant on this mission):
- Delivery-focused: converts ambiguity into owners, actions, decisions and realistic dates.
- Calm under pressure: handles blockers and escalation without creating unnecessary drama.
- Transparent: communicates uncertainty and bad news early, with facts and recovery options.
- Structured but pragmatic: applies enough governance to control delivery without burdening teams.
- Persistent: follows actions through to closure and does not rely on meeting minutes as a substitute for progress.
- Collaborative: earns trust across product, engineering and operational teams without depending on hierarchical authority.
Sourcing note: Candidates whose experience is limited to facilitating Scrum ceremonies, coaching a single team or maintaining Jira boards are unlikely to cover the assignment. Evidence of integrated multi-team planning, dependency management, risk escalation and release accountability should be treated as essential.
How You Will Succeed as a Keystone Solutions Consultant:
- Operate within the client?9s delivery governance while upholding Keystone Solutions?9 standards for transparency, rigor, and outcome-driven planning.
- Bring a product-oriented mindset to multi-team deliveries, ensuring one coherent delivery view across contributors.
- Champion clear owners, dates, acceptance criteria, and integrated release readiness across development to operations.
Apply Now:
If you are ready to tackle technical and strategic challenges in a dynamic consultancy environment, apply today .
