Technical Application Manager (Interim)

About us

Get on board with Damen Naval, along with more than 1,200 professionals based in The Netherlands, Romania, and Germany. We are the naval division of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group which employs 12,000 professionals globally. Damen Naval designs and builds advanced naval vessels for customers all over the world. With a passion for technological innovation and sustainable solutions, we continue to push the boundaries in naval shipbuilding. You can be part of our team! Are you ready for duty?

The role

As a Technical Application Manager at Damen Naval you work on a broad variety of activities and tasks in the field of Technical Application management. You manage and optimize applications from a technical perspective to ensure that these applications effectively support Damen Naval's objectives while adhering to security and compliance standards.
For this position Damen Naval is seeking an interim professional who can start on short notice.

Key accountabilities

As the Technical Application Manager (Interim), your key responsibilities will include:

• Lifecycle Management: Oversee the entire technical lifecycle of applications, from development to retirement.
• Alignment with Objectives: Ensure applications align with business goals and regulatory requirements.
• Integration: Collaborate with different departments to seamlessly integrate various applications.
• Middleware Solutions: Implement and manage middleware for system communication.
• Design and Scalability: Analyze business requirements and design scalable, secure solutions.
• Performance Monitoring: Monitor application performance and optimize as needed.
• Security Measures: Implement measures to protect data and systems.
• User Support: Troubleshoot issues and ensure positive user experience.
• Documentation: Maintain comprehensive technical documentation.

Skills & experience

To excel as the Technical Application Manager (Interim), you should possess the following qualifications and qualities:

• 3+ years of experience working in a similar position, preferably in a corporate environment as part of a staff department.
• Experience in Technical Application maintenance, preferably within a technical, complex engineering or manufacturing environment.
• Experience in IT Product Lifecycle Management.
• Bachelor's or Master's level in IT or other relevant discipline.
• Good command of the Dutch & English language (written & verbal).
• Excellent references antecedents as a pre-employment security screening is standard part of the recruitment procedure.
• Permanent EU citizenship and passport are both required and candidates with NL/EU (work) visa or with both an EU and non-EU nationality and/or passport are not eligible in accordance with the requirements imposed by the military nature of our projects.

What we offer

At Damen Naval, we value our interim team members and strive for a positive and successful collaboration. As an interim professional on secondment basis (detachering) or as a freelancer (ZZP), we offer you the following conditions:

• An attractive rate, ensuring at least equal pay to permanent staff.
• Travel allowance of 23 cents per kilometre.
• Flexibility to work partially from home.
• Challenging and innovative projects.

Other

Are you interested in the interim position of Technical Application Manager (Interim), kindly submit your application along with your CV and motivation letter. Please state your preferred agreement, secondment (detachering) or freelance (zzp) along with an indication of:

• Secondment: your monthly gross salary based on fulltime work.
• Freelance: your hourly rate.

For more information about the vacancy or Damen Naval, please visit the Damen Naval website, the Damen Naval Career website or call the Corporate Recruitment department on +31 (0)118- 485 000.

Please note that due to the military nature of our projects, only candidates who have permanent EU nationality can be considered for vacancies at Damen Naval. Unfortunately, we are not allowed to process candidates who (also) have a non-EU passport or nationality. A pre-employment and security screening and investigation form part of the recruitment process.
Damen Naval does not approve commercial, contractor and/or agency or other commercial use of this advertisement. Proposing candidates without invitation is not appreciated and they will not be considered.