Technical Solution Manager - French Speaking (all genders)

Job Introduction

Frequentis Group with headquarters in Vienna is an international supplier of communication and information systems for control centres with safety-critical tasks. Worldwide, more than 500 customers in some 150 countries with more than 45,000 workstations already trust our know-how and proven experience.

Within our Public Transport business, we deliver mission-critical communication solutions for some of Europe's largest railway operators. As a Technical Solution Manager (all genders) you will take ownership of the technical delivery and continuous evolution a major Railway Project for France. The role combines technical ownership, customer engagement, project-wide coordination, and engineering team development in an international environment.

Key Tasks

• Own and steer the overall technical solution for an ongoing programme with a leading railway infrastructure manager in France throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring successful delivery, customer satisfaction, and achievement of project milestones.
• Act as the primary technical interface between the client, project management, engineering teams, development organisations, suppliers, and other stakeholders, ensuring effective technical communication, alignment, and decision-making.
• Lead, coach, and continuously improve the program’s engineering organisation, collaboration model, and cross-functional ways of working to increase delivery effectiveness, transparency, and scalability.
• Coordinate engineering, software development, system integration, acceptance, commissioning, migration, and change implementation activities while proactively managing technical risks, dependencies, milestones and project costs.
• Drive technical problem solving across the project and actively support engineering teams in the execution of critical work packages to ensure project success.
• Foster continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and technical excellence while helping to shape future public transport projects in France.

Key Qualifications

• University degree in Telecommunications, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a comparable technical discipline.
• Several years of experience with technical ownership of complex IT, telecommunications, railway, or mission-critical infrastructure projects, including responsibility for customer-facing delivery and engineering execution, ideally with know-how in GSM-R, FRMCS or railway communication systems.
• Proven experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams and driving technical project execution in international customer environments.
• Strong understanding of software-intensive systems, system security, system integration, deployment, and operational environments.
• Experience working with customers, suppliers, and distributed engineering organisations across multiple countries.
• Strong sense of technical ownership combined with a pragmatic, delivery-oriented mindset.
• You enjoy working hands-on with complex technical systems and can support engineering teams with technical analysis, troubleshooting, integration, implementation, or coordination activities when needed.
• Fluent French and English are mandatory, German is considered an advantage.
• Willingness to Travel between Paris and Vienna up to 30%.
• Working location can be also Paris.

Benefits

Working at Frequentis means making the world a safer place every day, long-term career opportunities and numerous benefits. These include a working time model based on trust, the option to work from home or remotely, a choice of IT equipment, a public transport ticket for the Vienna core zone or a reserved parking space, an allowance for meals in the office and reimbursement of expenses for working from home, the option to take a sabbatical, a comprehensive onboarding program and numerous programs for professional and personal development.

Salary

The remuneration for this position consists of the collective agreement minimum salary of EUR 54,503 gross per year based on a 38.5 hour week plus an overpayment in line with the market depending on professional qualifications and experience.