Description

Sabina is a seasoned IT manager with over 20 years of experience managing large-scale service delivery and complex portfolios across the private and public sectors, including significant roles at the European Commission, NCIA, ATOS, Bull, BNP Paribas Fortis, and Deloitte. She possesses proven expertise in driving strategic technology alignment, leading organisational change, and ensuring robust service execution under strict time and budgetary controls.

Core Competencies & Key Accomplishments

Strategic Portfolio Management: Sabina developed and managed high-value IT project and service portfolios aligned with corporate web strategy at the European Commission. She successfully streamlined service integration to standardise solutions and delivery processes.
Agile & Programme Leadership: She led significant Agile/Scrum implementations driving key Scrum practices and delivering over 20 large web revamp and technology upgrade projects on fixed budgets and timelines.
Stakeholder & Resource Management: She is highly skilled in executive-level stakeholder communication, managing delivery escalations, and directing large cross-functional teams to share requirements and support multiple concurrent initiatives across organisations like BULL/Atos.
Service Level Governance: Defined, monitored, and managed complex Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and established critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for high-profile clients (e.g., European Commission, Eurocontrol).
Financial Management & Reporting: Developed and managed comprehensive budgets for IT implementation projects, departments, and services. Produced detailed financial reports, monitored expenditures against financial plans (e.g., Workforce Planning and Annual Business Execution Plan at NCIA), and accurately forecasted future financial needs

Domaines d’expertise

Langues

Italien
Bilingue ou natif
Anglais
Capacité professionnelle complète
Espagnol
Notions
Français
Capacité professionnelle complète
Néerlandais
Capacité professionnelle limitée

Préférences en matière de lieu de travail

Accepte de travailler sur site

Brussels (jusqu’à 50 km)

Accenture Belgium - DIGIT
Sur Malt
28487 - Onboarding Manager Level 9 - Nearsite - DG DIGIT B1
AGENCE & SSII
janvier 2026 - mars 2026 (2 mois)
Brussels, Belgique
As IT service Officer for the Europa Web team, Sabina focused on the:

Security Governance & Risk Oversight: Led enterprise-wide IT Security and Risk Management as the client-facing authority for major platforms (OpenEuropa Library, Europa Web Publishing Platform and Europa Community Platform), driving risk-based security frameworks across web application and cloud infrastructure layers in alignment.
Cloud Security Compliance: Assessed and maintained compliance with Cloud Security Controls in collaboration with the sector responsible for Drupal hosting services.
Asset Management & Security Planning: Directed Primary Asset identification across critical Europa platforms and led the design and implementation of IT Security Plans, ensuring cross-functional stakeholder alignment and architectural security integrity under the ITSRM methodology.
Regulatory Compliance & Data Protection: Served as focal point for cybersecurity and data protection, enforcing full compliance with the EU cybersecurity framework, GDPR/EUDPR, and Priority 55 security controls; maintained zero non-compliance findings across all DPIAs and security audits.
Contracts & Vendor Governance: Leading the strategic transition of IT delivery contracts from Time & Means to Quoted Time & Means and Fixed Price models, conducting skills gap analyses and defining technical specifications to enforce accountability and security-by-design in procurement.
Innovation & Process Modernisation: Drove an inter-sectoral modernisation initiative to harmonise security and operational methodologies, aligning service delivery with enterprise security standards and evolving SLA requirement.
Cloud Management Cybersecurity and Information Security Open Source Advocacy and Innovation Stratégie IT Strategic planning
European Commission- Directorate-General for Digital Services - Unit B1 DATA, AI AND WEB
TEAM LEADER - SERVICE MANAGER IT PLATFORM WEB PRESENCE
AGENCE & SSII
janvier 2020 - février 2026 (6 ans et 1 mois)
Brussels, Belgium
Sabina managed the strategic vision, financial optimisation and continuous
improvements of the Web Service Portfolio based solely on Open Source
technology, ensuring agile delivery and architectural integrity with corporate
solutions. She also defined and optimizes high-impact web solutions for over
300 websites within the European Commission and EUIBAs.
Her key responsibilities included:
IT Service Portfolio Management: (>$10M Budget):
Managed a portfolio of more than 300 websites, ensuring that the selected web corporate solutions architecture aligned with business requirements.
Oversaw the annual budget exceeding 10 million EUR (services,HR, outsourcing, licenses) for the Europa Web Platform.
Established clear project selection criteria for new requests, ensuring efficient management and prioritization of incoming projects and service requests.
Drove IT Service Portfolio Optimization by standardising service offerings, defining contractual agreement templates, and ensuring service delivery is compliant with all SLAs (Service Level Agrements) and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators).
Acted as the primary escalation point for the Europa Web Platform (300+ websites).
Supervised and coordinated the work of more than 40 Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs) across multiple sub-teams.
Innovation and Open-Source Advocacy:
Founded the Europa Community of Practice for Open-Source Web Systems (Drupal) to drive code contributions and knowledge sharing across the Open Source Communities.
Led innovation activities, including hackathons, to integrate Generative and Agentic AI with Open-Source web technologies.
Defined detailed OpenEuropa Library (architecture) of the reusable components to ensure the technological evolution in line with the evolving business demand of the European Commission and EUIBAs Web presence.
Documented the high-level architecture of the key open-source Web projects and contribute to Code Europa
Open Source Advocacy and Innovation Enterprise Architecture and Strategic Digital alignment Conduite du changement Cybersecurity and Information Security Cloud Management
NCIA – NATO COMMUNICATION INFORMATION AGENCY
SENIOR BUSINESS PLANNER
DÉFENSE & ARMÉE
décembre 2018 - décembre 2019 (1 an)
Brussels, Belgium
Sabina worked for the COO office and precisely in the Business and
Workforce Planning team as Senior Business Planner.
Her key responsibilities included:

Strategic Planning and Forecasting:
Initiated a comprehensive Agency Workforce Planning initiative, encompassing demand forecasting for all organizational units (production and enabling) and the entire portfolio (services and projects).
Business Plan Execution: Successfully delivered the Agency's three-year Business Plan, ensuring its complete alignment with the financial plan and securing executive buy-in.
Senior Stakeholder Coordination:
Coordinated efforts across all Service Line Chief Managers to finalise the yearly execution plan and validate projected revenue from services and projects to accurately support workforce cost forecasts.
Cross-Functional Alignment: Initiated and formalized collaboration with HR and Finance to guarantee accurate, integrated forecasts for workforce, revenue, and costs during the three-year planning cycle
Process Continuous Improvements:
Documented and executed a comprehensive roadshow campaign across all NCIA entities and hierarchy levels to successfully implement the newly defined strategic planning process.
Process Automation: Implemented the Business Value Process for the planning exercise, supported by the automation within a newly adopted strategic planning tool.
Financial Planning Business plan