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About the Role

As Principal Project Lead, you will work on a key project for the digital transformation of justice and judicial administration with high political attention. You will be responsible for the execution of the overall project and coordinate multiple streams, a larger team, including the Project Leadership Team and stakeholders, as the central point of contact.

Responsibilities

• Lateral leadership of a project team of approximately 35 people across multiple streams.
• Collaboration with divisional management and heads of disciplines on staffing needs.
• Ensuring appropriate internal project structures and high delivery reliability.
• Fostering a constructive feedback culture.
• Continuous implementation and capacity planning.
• Managing classic project management routines (e.g., risk management, reporting).
• Identifying content opportunities and risks early on.
• Deriving and implementing strategic and economic decisions.
• Continuously clarifying project scope based on product strategy.
• Developing quality criteria.
• Navigating complex stakeholder landscapes with demanding federal-state relationships and competencies, as well as an extensive ecosystem (e.g., bar associations, politics).
• Shaping trusting collaboration and ensuring alignment from working to management levels.
• Developing and negotiating framework agreements in collaboration with Legal.
• Monitoring financial KPIs and managing budget control.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in managing complex digital products, services, and/or IT projects.
• Strong skills in budgeting, contract management, and controlling.
• Proficient skills in lateral leadership of interdisciplinary product teams.
• Broad project management expertise in hybrid operating models (classic/agile) and with standard frameworks (e.g., SAFe, PMFlex Agil).
• Relevant experience in the federal administration or public sector environment.
• High motivation for transformation projects.
• Confidence in critical project phases (e.g., go-lives, transitions, migrations).
• Excellent time and quality management.
• Excellent communication skills (German C1 and fluent English).
• Empathy and persuasiveness to advance projects against resistance and align teams across departments towards common goals.

Skills

• Lateral leadership
• Project management
• Budgeting
• Contract management
• Controlling
• Agile methodologies
• SAFe
• PMFlex Agil
• Stakeholder management
• Risk management
• Reporting
• Communication
• Diplomacy

Location

• Germany

Work Type

• Flexible working hours
• Mobile working

Experience Level

• Principal

Salary/Compensations

• 90,000–105,000 Euro gross per year

Benefits

• 50 Euro voucher per month
• Company pension plan with employer contribution

About the Company

• We shape a digital state together with the administration.
• We strengthen administration in driving its own digitalization forward as a partner at eye level.
• We create the foundation for scalable and effective digital solutions through our own iterative product development and our commitment to better framework conditions.
• We are a team of over 280 people working interdisciplinarily and iteratively to realize the vision of a digital state together with the federal administration.

Equal Opportunity

• We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive work environment. Therefore, we welcome all applications – regardless of religion and worldview, nationality and (ethnic and social) origin, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, age, as well as physical and intellectual abilities.
• We only examine incoming applications for their professional qualifications and the key qualifications required for the respective position.
• We ask you to refrain from including a photo of yourself in your CV and to omit information about your age, gender, marital status, or similar.