Transition Manager IT – Scheveningen Area/Hybrid Working

Project overview

Organization

You work for a provincial government organization in South Holland. The Information Transition program focuses on sustainable information accessibility, I-governance and I-control, and data-driven work. Microsoft 365, SharePoint/Teams, and a DMS/RMA environment (CALS/OpenText) are important components of the information provision.

IT Transition Manager

As IT Transition Manager, you will take over the management of the existing migration factory together with the migration coordinator. You will professionalize the setup and management of controlled document and information migrations to Microsoft 365 and CALS. You are responsible for integrated planning, migration waves, capacity, quality, dependencies, decision-making, and risks. Technical migrations are carried out by migration specialists and suppliers.

You will connect migration execution with business implementation, information management, architecture, release management, and the operations organization. As IT Transition Manager, you will develop a suitable Agile/SAFe-oriented working method with clear roles, backlogs, prioritization, and cyclical improvement. You will also set up the release process and agreements for acceptance, operational readiness, and handover. You will work with the migration coordinator, program and project management, product owners, suppliers, and involved domains.

According to the source, the migration factory and implementation will continue until mid-2028.

Responsibilities and Results

Function Requirements

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Wishes

Competencies

Deliverables

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As the function requirements are knockout criteria, and the function wishes are the award criteria, your alignment with these must be clearly stated in your CV.

Application

Success = personality x skill

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• Background: Within a comprehensive information transition program, documents and information must be migrated in a controlled manner, and the existing migration factory needs further setup. Current management is being taken over to strengthen the continuity and predictability of migrations.
• Intention: A professionally managed migration factory that realizes controlled information migrations, reliable releases, and sustainable handover to operations.
• Personality x Skill: You are a senior IT transition manager who oversees complex migration chains, pragmatically implements Agile/SAFe, and connects technical teams, business, and operations. You act result-oriented, administratively sensitive, and carefully with diverse interests.
• Taking over and improving migration management, including planning, governance, risks, issues, capacity, and reporting;
• Setting up the end-to-end migration process with RACI, quality controls, and standards for intake, cleanup, mapping, validation, acceptance, and handover;
• Directing coherent migrations to M365 and CALS, with attention to metadata, authorizations, completeness, and sustainable accessibility;
• Implementing pragmatic Agile/SAFe collaboration with teams, roles, backlogs, prioritization, dependencies, (PI) planning, and continuous improvement;
• Organizing release management, including release calendar, testing, go/no-go, fallback scenarios, communication, incidents, and aftercare;
• Documenting agreements with functional, application, and technical operations regarding acceptance, changes, support, escalations, and knowledge transfer.
• Handover and improvement plan with current risk, issue, dependency, and progress registration;
• Operational migration process with RACI and quality controls, plus an integrated migration and release plan for M365 and CALS;
• Implemented Agile/SAFe collaboration with backlog, prioritization, appropriate planning cadence, and improvement cycle;
• Applied release management with release calendar, go/no-go criteria, and fallback procedures, and established operational agreements;
• Periodic management reports and delivered migrations with documented validation, business acceptance, and handover to operations.
• The position is for 36 hours per week;
• Interviews on Tuesday, November 24, 2026;
• Without government experience, it is unfortunately not useful to apply;
• Minimum HBO work and thinking level in an ICT field, demonstrated by education or relevant work experience;
• Minimum 10 years of experience leading complex IT migrations or IT transitions involving multiple technical teams, suppliers, and organizational units;
• Minimum 5 years of experience with Agile/SAFe in a coordinating or management role, for example as Product Owner, Product Manager, Epic Owner, or migration manager;
• Minimum 5 years of experience preparing and coordinating complex production migrations, go-lives, and handovers to operations organizations;
• Minimum 5 years of work experience within a provincial and/or other government organization;
• Minimum 5 years of experience organizing, coordinating, and managing release management and change processes within complex IT environments;
• Available for an average of 36 hours per week during the assignment and flexibly deployable; start date January 1, 2027, or a mutually agreed-upon date;
• Dutch-language data exchange, work, and correspondence during the procedure and assignment.
• More than 10 years of experience with complex IT migrations or IT transitions; extra appreciation for 11–13 years, 13–15 years, and more than 15 years;
• More than 5 years of experience with Agile/SAFe in a coordinating or management role; extra appreciation for 6–8 years, 8–10 years, and 10 years or more;
• More than 5 years of experience with complex production migrations, go-lives, and handovers to operations; extra appreciation for more than 5 to less than 10 years and more than 10 years;
• More than 5 years of experience with release management and change processes, including releases, go/no-go, operational acceptance, and handover; extra appreciation for more than 5 to less than 10 years and more than 10 years;
• More than 5 years of experience in a provincial or other government organization; assessment according to the experience scales in the request;
• A strong vision and approach for the application chain supporting the lifecycle of documentary data, with attention to architecture development, content, and organization.
• Result-oriented, decisive, proactive, initiative-taking, and pragmatic;
• Flexible, tactful, careful, and judicious with conflicting interests;
• Administratively sensitive; insight into decision-making circuits, legal context, and political-administrative and technical feasibility;
• Strong communication and advisory skills;
• Team player with persuasiveness and change management ability;
• Process knowledge, substantive expertise, and a clear vision of the assignment.
• CV tailored to the assignment, prepared in Dutch, Word format, max. 5 A4 pages;
• Provide a brief motivation for this assignment (max. 1 A4 page);
• 2 references with contact details (These may be consulted by the client during an intake interview);
• Indication of hourly rate.
• You will receive an acknowledgment of receipt within 24 hours and always a reasoned feedback within 3 days after the closing date/assessment.
• If you have questions in the meantime, you can contact the contact person for more information, e.g., about who the end client is and about the assignment agreement. We can also transparently advise you on pricing.

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Location: Omgeving Scheveningen/Hybride Werken, NL
• Languages: Dutch