Citizen Development Lead

Job Description

Our Europe & Africa organisation (EUAF) is scaling innovation by empowering business users to build secure, responsible and high‑value solutions through citizen development. As the Citizen Development Lead, you enable a safe and scalable citizen development ecosystem by ensuring solutions align with governance, leverage existing expertise, and deliver measurable business value. You foster a culture of simplicity, robustness and standardisation, while supporting teams in their growth, wellbeing and performance.

Your role

• You scale citizen development safely by ensuring solutions follow governance, guardrails and best practices;

• You drive standardisation in design principles, development processes and ways of working;

• You ensure teams deliver solutions on time, within budget and leveraging existing expertise;

• You build an innovative environment where people grow their skills and feel engaged and supported;

• You collaborate with Global Programs, architecture and governance teams and regional leadership teams to align strategy and execution;

• You ensure team members have the right capabilities and support their wellbeing and career development;

• You orchestrate the use case pipeline and coordinate delivery across citizen developers and central teams;

• You are accountable for the performance, engagement and development of your teams;

• You actively contribute to the development of a Citizen Development Community to foster knowledge sharing on AI effectiveness and to advance AI capabilities across the Europe and Africa region.

Your track record

• You bring 5–10+ years of experience in innovation, digital transformation or program management;

• You hold a Bachelor/Master in Business, IT or a related field;

• You have a background in software development or data engineering;

• You have experience leading communities and cross‑functional initiatives;

• You ideally hold certifications in low‑code/automation platforms, Agile or DevOps;

• You are fluent in English and skilled in communication, change management and community building;

• You have experience with CI/CD, DevOps metrics and citizen development practices.

What Fugro offers

• A gross monthly salary between €8500 and 9500 gross a month, depending on your relevant experience;

• 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**.**