Head of Development (IT)

MEGA's IT department builds and evolves the ecosystem platforms behind our energy and telecom business lines. As the team grows and our delivery becomes AI-augmented, we are creating a Head of Development role: the technical reference who sets the direction, raises the bar on delivery and quality, and makes our estimates and technical decisions rigorous and defensible.

_Ready for the challenge?_ Because we are 😊!

The Job:

The Head of Development is THE technical reference for the dev team. You define the technical direction - our “Technical North Star” - take and arbitrate technical decisions, challenge and validate estimates, and coach and challenge the team to raise delivery quality - while staying hands-on enough to be fully credible with the engineers. You also lead the team on the human side - growing, motivating and retaining the engineers.

• Define and own the Technical North Star — architecture principles, standards, tooling and the AI-augmented way of working - and make sure the team follows it.
• Be the technical decision-maker and arbiter: resolve architecture and technical trade-offs and set the direction on cross-cutting choices.
• Challenge and validate estimates: bring rigour and an objective basis to sizing, and verify quotes before they go out.
• Raise delivery performance and quality: define clear objectives and KPIs across delivery, quality and cost, and drive continuous improvement in code review, testing and CI/CD.
• Coach and challenge the team: mentor developers and leads, raise the technical bar, and give direct, constructive feedback.
• Manage and grow the people: run one-to-ones, set clear objectives and development plans, own performance and career growth, and keep the team healthy, motivated and retained.
• Shape and grow the team: recruit and assess, and structure it around full-stack developers assigned to business lines, apps or features, with a front-end and a DevOps reference where relevant.
• Stay hands-on where it counts: deep enough in code and architecture to review, prototype and earn the team's trust.
• Champion AI-augmented development: set the standards, guardrails and governance for using AI tools well and safely across the delivery cycle.
• Be the technical credibility with the business: translate technical constraints and trade-offs for stakeholders and the founders.

Why you’ll love working at Mega:

• Contributing to a mission that matters: Mega makes energy (and telecom) accessible and affordable for everyone. Your code has real-world impact.
• Working in a fast-moving, genuinely friendly team , with a hybrid model that gives you real flexibility (3 days remote, 2 on-site in Liège).
• Coming as you are: diversity, inclusion, and psychological safety aren’t HR talking points here, they’re lived every day ❤️

Align with our core values as you lead and inspire:

• Trust : We act with transparency, take responsibility, and foster exchanges based on trust, respect, and integrity.
• Agility : We adapt quickly, find pragmatic solutions, and seize opportunities with creativity _._
• Positivity :__ We collaborate together with a positive attitude, shared motivation, and a common vision _._
• Customer First :__ We prioritize our customers, using our expertise to deliver value and build strong partnerships _._
• Performance : We aim for excellence by facing challenges with a performance and efficiency-oriented mindset. Our approach is focused on results and solutions _._