Squad Lead for Digital Engagement Solutions

Division: Group Digital Capabilities (GDC)

Main objective of this Tribe is to deliver Euroclear customers frontend services and products, in a reliable and stable manner, to supervise their activities, enable reporting and allow transactions execution. Your role will be to lead two squads within the tribe: 

DES Environment: focused on the environment on which our applications are running:

• Continuous improvements related to the test / production environments
• Test environment availability and maintenance
• Release support: no regression testing, performance testing, PPE & PROD launches 
• Developer environment availability and maintenance
• Set up and maintenance of deployment pipelines
• Supporting projects with environment related topics

DES Asset Servicing: focused on functional delivery for asset servicing business line:

• Contributing to external and internal projects (Agile and Waterfall)
• Maintaining the documentation up to date
• Setting up new projects, accountable for design, estimations and delivery planning
• Predictable delivery, and also in line with IT Controls 
• Proving production support within agreed SLA, and the correct delivery of PRB resolution .

General Job description: 

Working within corporate strategies and policy frameworks, leads & coordinates the activities of an IT organizational unit to meet company's business requirements. These activities include the design and implementation of IT strategies, guidelines and procedures.

Your Role:

• Ensures (may ensure) that the design, selection, development and maintenance of business application systems are successfully integrated and operated within the company’s business environment
• Oversees (may ensure) the design and implementation of an assigned technology as well as the integration and performance of all local area networks for the organization
• Coordinates the use of internal technical support personnel and vendor support to provide higher levels of problem solving maintenance, and an efficient end-user support
• Leads (may lead) the management, monitoring, and improvement of both existing and new IT processes like organizational change, release management and incident management
• Manages a subset of a large organizational unit or an entity, having a direct and controlling impact on the results of this sub-unit, with accountability for the tactical direction and mid-term planning of the activities required to achieve these results
• Takes decisions based on judgment within the scope of the defined strategy
• Manages, motivates and assesses performance of a team of IT professionals
• Supervises and manages the performance of diverse activities that is precise as to content and objective and requiring awareness of related activities in order to operate within a short/medium time frame
• Outputs are subject to periodic review against targets
• Build the environment strategy of the future
• Improve, maintain and control the environment quality
• Manage the capacity for the squad, and how it is used on delivery for the squad 
• Understand & managing delivery / team risks 
• Support the team in the delivery and its preparation

Requirements:

• Good communication skills
• Being able to communicate/share information with technical and non-technical streams
• Decision making capacity in sophisticated and uncertain environment
• In-depth understanding of business strategy, needs and challenges
• Deep experience in leading large and sophisticated program
• Ability to empower the team
• Servant leadership for the Tribe leadership and delivery teams
• Organizational skills and structured approach
• Autonomous in problem solving
• Demonstrated ability to influence key collaborators (various and high seniority)
• Holistic and strategic view
• Ability to translate strategic objectives into operational initiatives
• Breadth of business and technical understanding, gained over long exposure (over 10 years at least) to a wide variety of infrastructure and application projects, and the social skills to influence decisions taken at a very senior level
• Fluent in English
• Experience in working with international team spread across different locations

About Us

Why join us

Embark on your new adventure at Euroclear, and work at the heart of the global capital markets. We connect over 2,000 financial institutions across the globe. As an open and resilient infrastructure, we contribute to the stability of the financial markets. We help clients cut through complexity, lower costs, and mitigate risks of financial transactions. At Euroclear, we have the clear ambition to use our key role to facilitate and accelerate a sustainable global financial system.

What We Offer:

• Work closely with inspiring, supportive and engaged colleagues from more than 80 different countries. 
• Practice your talents in a highly professional international environment. 
• Join a learning and development environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing and training.
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

New ways of working

Find your own optimal balance within our hybrid working model, where you can connect at the office and also benefit from remote working. 

Great Place to Work for All

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity and strives to be a Great Place to Work for All. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment, regardless of any aspect that makes them unique (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, disability, ...). If you need any specific accommodation due to disability or any other reason, you can let the recruiter know during your application process.

About the Team

The Group Digital Capabilities (GDC) division contributes to Euroclear’s competitiveness by delivering reliable and sustainable IT solutions for the financial securities markets. Our teams deliver new IT solutions and improve existing applications for both our internal and external clients. We deploy changes into the production environment in a controlled and structured way that does not compromise production stability and we ensure applicative production support.