Head of Development (IT)

MEGA’s IT department builds and evolves platforms powering our energy and telecom businesses. To support our growth and AI-driven transformation, we are creating a Head of Development role to define our technical vision, drive engineering excellence and lead our development team to the next level.

Ready for the challenge? Because we are 😊!

The job:

As Head of Development, you are the technical leader and trusted partner of the Development Team.

You set the technical vision, create the conditions for engineering excellence, and help the team deliver high-quality solutions at scale. Acting as both a strategic leader and a hands-on expert, you guide technical decisions, foster a culture of continuous improvement, and support engineers in reaching their full potential.

You are the person the team turns to for clarity, direction, and technical leadership.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the Technical North Star, including architecture, engineering standards and AI-augmented ways of working.

• Lead technical decision-making and bring rigour to estimates, architecture choices and delivery commitments.

• Raise the bar on delivery quality, performance and continuous improvement across the development lifecycle.

• Coach, develop and grow the team while fostering a culture of excellence and accountability.

• Stay hands-on enough to provide technical guidance and maintain strong credibility with the engineers.

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.