Cognizone is a leading software development company based in Belgium, specialising in Semantic Technologies, Knowledge Graphs, and Linked Open Data. Since 2015, we have delivered industrial-strength solutions for public institutions including European institutions and national government bodies across Europe.
Cognizone develops and maintains a comprehensive suite of legislative applications for a European government institution. The platform leverages knowledge graphs and semantic technologies to manage, publish, and disseminate national legislation. It serves as the official digital channel for accessing a country’s legal framework and is used daily by legal professionals, civil servants, and the general public.
The ecosystem is built on a domain-specific ontology aligned with the European Legislation Identifier (ELI) standard, with data stored in RDF knowledge graphs, served via SPARQL endpoints, indexed by Elasticsearch, and presented through Angular-based front-ends. The same architecture has been successfully deployed for other European government clients, making the role inherently multi-client and cross-country.
As Project Manager for the legislative applications suite, you will be responsible for coordinating the development, delivery, and continuous improvement of the platform. You will serve as the primary point of contact between the Cognizone development team and the client institution.
•Manage the project lifecycle for all applications in the suite, including planning, execution, release management, and client handover.
•Coordinate and lead regular meetings with the client, translating requirements into actionable user stories and sprint backlogs.
•Drive sprint planning, estimation sessions, and release preparation (including multilingual release notes).
•Manage on-call support rotations for production environments.
•Track and manage project budgets, timelines, and resource allocation.
•Contribute to R&D reporting for experimental development initiatives.
•Coordinate accessibility audits, SEO improvements, UX research, and integration testing.
•Ensure proper documentation and knowledge transfer across team members.
•3+ years of experience in IT project management, ideally in agile environments (Scrum/Kanban).
•Fluent in English & French.
•Experience working with public sector or institutional clients.
•Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
•Ability to write clear functional specifications and user stories.
•Familiarity with software development lifecycles and technical project coordination.
•Knowledge of semantic technologies, RDF, SPARQL, or knowledge graphs.
•Experience with legislative or legal technology projects.
•Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Angular, Java/Spring ecosystems.
•German language skills (for multilingual deliverables and cross-country coordination).
•Experience with Linked Open Data, the ELI standard, or Akoma Ntoso XML.
•PM2, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification.
•A meaningful role in a high-impact project: an entire country’s legislation depends on this platform.
•Work with cutting-edge semantic technologies and knowledge graph solutions.
•A collaborative, innovation-driven team environment.
•Exposure to multi-country, multilingual projects with European government clients.
•Competitive salary and benefits package.
•Flexible working arrangements with a Brussels-based team.
Cognizone is a startup of several ICT engineers, experienced in different computer science disciplines, working with data and semantics for the last 15 years, providing industrial strength solutions.
Cognizone engineers are proficient with a wide variety of tools, software products and systems ranging from Thesauri Management Systems, to integration and interoperability architectures and modern software development paradigms like Micro-services and Linked Data Fragments.
Cognizone situates itself in working with the industry sector as integrator (something that the team has as core competence) but also with the European Commission and other Governments. Cognizone's intention is to provide its know how and expertise to these institutions in order to carry out complex and demanding projects.
