Program Manager

Federal Police – General Directorate of Judicial Police

Work Environment

The Federal Judicial Police is a specialized police force, mainly responsible for combating organized crime in all its forms. It is one of the three general directorates of the federal police and focuses on investigation files related to areas such as cybercrime, terrorism, organized crime, drug trafficking, and many others. It provides support and expertise to the entire integrated police, as well as to its national and international partners.

Within this directorate are the operational resources assigned to judicial police operations, the fight against serious and organized crime, special units, and technical and scientific police operations.

Your main role will be to lead technical teams, coordinate stakeholders, and manage projects as well as coordinate the related project managers. This includes planning, priority management, and reporting.

You will be the technical reference for the teams and take charge of aspects related to architecture, infrastructure, integration, and continuous deployment. This role therefore combines managerial and technical responsibilities. You will be assisted by the steering committee for key decisions, whether technical or managerial.

You will be responsible for supervising mixed and heterogeneous teams, both in the development of software applications and in the implementation and maintenance of IT system infrastructure.

Among the teams you will be responsible for, there are teams in charge of maintaining legacy applications, teams developing new application solutions, and teams responsible for systems, networks, infrastructure, data storage, and DevOps.

You will report directly to the head of the IT Factory of the General Directorate of Judicial Police, the IT center of expertise at the Federal Police.

Main Missions

For the supervision of teams responsible for maintaining legacy software solutions, maintaining a Legacy application (heavy Windows client):

• You will familiarize yourself with the existing setup and propose technical suggestions aimed at stabilizing certain parts of the Legacy applications.

• You will supervise the teams responsible for migrating functionalities present in other solutions to the Legacy application, ensuring compatibility with the same technological foundation.

• You will supervise the integration of migrated functionalities with other application modules as well as with external systems where data collection or transmission is required.

• You will ensure that the Legacy applications remain compatible with upcoming versions of Windows and that their behavior is stable during execution.

At the same time, you will supervise the team responsible for analyzing the new solution and actively participate in its technical aspects.

You will supervise the teams responsible for implementing the new solution based on a web and responsive approach:

• You will supervise backend and frontend developments, as well as the implementation of unit and integration tests.

• You will ensure that the source code is properly versioned and that the technical documentation is prepared by the teams.

• You will oversee the DevOps aspect and the setup of deployment pipelines for applications, services, and infrastructure (IaC).

You will also supervise the teams responsible for infrastructure, networks, systems, integration, and continuous deployment.

Desired Profile

You hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science, can demonstrate several years of experience in software development including technical roles, have experience in a similar position, and master the technologies mentioned in the offer.

You demonstrate leadership, are capable of uniting different stakeholders (technical, management, and clients), and quickly building a network. You show empathy but can also be firm when necessary.

You can adapt your management style depending on the people, their personalities, and their sometimes heterogeneous profiles. You are also able to assess the skills and capabilities of your team members to assign the right task to the right person.

You are able to manage priorities to achieve objectives within deadlines and adapt them when necessary in case of unforeseen circumstances or difficulties not identified in the initial estimates.

You can manage a project using agile methodologies, especially Scrum. Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, Review, and Retro are part of your daily routine.

You have solid knowledge of .NET (C#), applied to the implementation of microservices. You are comfortable with the concept of REST API or gRPC, and the “event driven” approach. You have knowledge in developing SPA-type web applications using a Micro-Frontend architecture.

You master authentication mechanisms via OpenID Connect and O365, for both backend services and frontend applications.

You have proven experience in CI/CD and setting up deployment pipelines with GitLab. You master GIT and are familiar with the concepts of branches, pull requests, and code reviews.

Experience in IaC (Infrastructure as Code) is a significant asset.

Knowledge of Delphi and Windows application development is a significant asset.

Knowledge in cryptography is also an asset.

You are proficient in English as well as one of the two national languages. Active knowledge of one national language and passive (at least) of the other is a real asset.

Knowledge of the Police environment, especially the Federal Judicial Police, is an important asset.

Soft Skills

• Ability to unite: Know how to align heterogeneous profiles around a common goal.

• Perseverance: Stay the course and not give up, even in the face of major difficulties.

• Ability to de-escalate: Soothe tensions, maintain a constructive atmosphere under pressure, and act as a regulator between stakeholders and the team.

• Initiative: Show proactivity to anticipate issues and initiate project dynamics without always waiting for systematic validation.

• Sense of priorities: Identify critical tasks to achieve objectives, keep a long-term vision to anticipate upcoming steps, and reorganize work according to unforeseen events or new elements arising during the project.

• User/client orientation: Manage priorities considering real field needs and user experience.

• Clear and spontaneous communication: Communicate smoothly, convey the right message, at the right time and at the right level. Be able to explain technical concepts to non-technicians.

• Cross-functional vision: Integrate technical, human, organizational, and political dimensions into decision-making.

• Analytical mindset: Go beyond symptoms to identify the root causes of problems.

Hard Skills

• Project Management: Mastery of agile methodologies, particularly Scrum, for managing complex projects.

• Digital Transformation: Experience in application modernization and transitioning from a heavy client to a modern web application with user transition support.

• Security: Expertise in cybersecurity and implementation of secure solutions from the design stage (security by design).

• Software Modeling: Good skills in UML and BPMN modeling.

• Monitoring: Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana or Prometheus.

• Architecture: Microservice Architecture, Microfrontend (Angular), and Event Driven.

• Development: .NET (C#), Angular, HTML, and CSS.

• Testing: Unit and integration tests.

• Database: Relational databases (PostgreSQL).

• DevOps: GitLab, CI/CD, Kubernetes, IaC, Linux.

• Authentication: OpenID, O365.