Community Leader Citizen Development

Job Description

Fugro is a global leader in geodata solutions, operating at the forefront of digital innovation. As the organisation continues to modernise, artificial intelligence is becoming a key driver in unlocking deeper insights, improving decision making and enabling scalable, efficient operations worldwide.

Are you a visionary leader ready to drive an organisation’s digital transformation forward? As Community Leader Citizen Development, you will shape the enterprise wide adoption of AI, automation and data driven innovation. You will lead a high performing team, build scalable intelligent solutions and translate strategic ambitions into tangible business impact. In this important role, you turn advanced technologies into everyday capabilities.

Your role

• You define the NextGen AI and Hyper Automation roadmap, ensuring it supports business priorities and the IT strategy;

• You lead discovery, scoping and prioritisation of valuable AI and automation use cases, creating a clear pipeline of opportunities;

• You guide AI/ML product development, from model design MLOps deployment to data pipelines, feature stores, model registries and the practical use of LLM applications;

• You design, build and scale enterprise-wide AI and automation products that improve core business processes and deliver real value;

• You coordinate end-to-end automation delivery, combining RPA, APIs, workflows, AI/ML and event-driven architectures into effective solutions;

• You strengthen the AI, RPA and low-code platform ecosystem, including integrations, reusable components, training environments and internal marketplaces that help teams work smarter;

• You establish clear and reliable governance frameworks for datasets, models, prompts, content filtering, automation controls, change management, testing and compliance with privacy and regulatory requirements;

• You implement structured monitoring and audit practices, including model performance, drift detection, bias reviews and clear escalation paths;

• You build and scale a selective citizen-developer programme, define AI learning paths and support in developing a culture of experimentation, good documentation and continuous improvement.

Your track record

• You possess a BSc or MSc degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence or a related field;

• You have a minimum of 5 years of experience in hands-on AI solution delivery, including AI/ML and automation programs;

• You have a minimum of 2 years of experience in leading cross-functional AI teams, developers and engineers and multi-stakeholder portfolios;

• You are licensed in Microsoft Azure A Engineer, Databricks ML, and preferably in Responsible AI training, UiPath, Microsoft Power Platform, ITIL and TOGAF;

• You have broad technical expertise across AI, automation and cloud;

• You have strong communication skills and organisational capability;

• You have excellent English language skills, both written and oral.

What Fugro offers

• A competitive salary;

• 29 holidays per year based on a fulltime employment (of which 4 are appointed by Fugro management) and the possibility to purchase 12 additional days;

• Extensive career & training opportunities both nationally and internationally;

• Flexible working hours and the ability to work from home in accordance with your manager and corporate policies;

• Commuting allowance;

• Modern pension scheme;

• Collective health insurance;

• Possibility to register with our corporate fitness plan;

• Coaching options through our EAP (Employee Assistance Program).

Are you interested?

Please visit our Company Page to find out more on what it is like to work at Fugro.

If you have any further questions, please contact Umit Nesar, Corporate Recruiter, tel. +31 (0)6 -81 41 07 68

After you have applied

• You will receive an automated confirmation-email of the receipt of your application;

• When we see a match, we will invite you for the first interview within a couple of days. Of course, you will also receive a message if we will not invite you;

• After a successful first round, you will be invited for the second round;

• If we are both still positive after the second interview, we will make you an offer and with that we hope to welcome you at Fugro!

Disclaimer for recruitment agencies:

Fugro does not accept any unsolicited applications from recruitment agencies. Acquisition to Fugro Recruitment or any Fugro employee is not appreciated**.**