Job Description

Cr\xc3\xa9dit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Cr\xc3\xa9dit Agricole Group, the 10th largest banking group worldwide in terms of balance sheet size (The Banker, July 2022).
8,600 employees in more than 30 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Middle-East and North Africa, support the Bank\'s clients, meeting their financial needs throughout the world.
Cr\xc3\xa9dit Agricole CIB offers its large corporate and institutional clients a range of products and services in capital market activities, investment banking, structured finance, commercial banking and international trade.
The Bank is a pioneer in the area of climate finance, and is currently a market leader in this segment with a complete offer for all its clients.For more information, please visit www.ca-cib.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/ca_cib
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/credit-agricole-cib/By working every day in the interest of society, we are a group committed to diversity and inclusion. All our positions are open to people with disabilities.Reference 2024-90723Publication date 24/06/2024Job descriptionBusiness typeTypes of Jobs - IT, Digital et DataJob titleHead of Team Acquisition (AQS)Contract typePermanent ContractJob summaryPosition
In a challenging and multicultural environment, we seek an IT manager for managing the Acquisition Team whom shall be responsible and proficient in team management, IT systems and solving high complexity business problems; using latest technologies like micro-services, containers, dev-ops best practices (when applicable) in order to help Credit Agricole transform its IT landscape.
The candidate will manage an IT team which is under Cash Management section, within CCS, working and managing 3 different applications.
He/she shall ensure that all the projects, activities and following tasks (non-exhaustive) under his/her responsibilities are performed within quality standards, on schedule and within validated cost boundaries:
\xc2\xb7 People Management - Coaching, Training, Appraisals and staff development for continuous improvement and group compliance
\xc2\xb7 Application owner - ensure applications are always compliant and stable according to organization guidelines and best IT practices
\xc2\xb7 POC between external teams and Paris for operational issues, escalations
\xc2\xb7 Supervises and oversees application development activities
\xc2\xb7 Supervises and oversees L3 support activitiesMain responsibilitiesTeam Head
\xc2\xb7 Team head - overall supervision, strategize, plan and oversee the team
\xc2\xb7 Advisory role to contribute through sponsors on possible IT solutions as well as impact on existing legacy
\xc2\xb7 Advisory role to Head of Section on overall resourcing and team dynamics
\xc2\xb7 Support and execution role to Head of Section for priority initiatives
\xc2\xb7 Team organization - recruitment/hiring of new staffs or replacement, project/resourcing organization, alignment with Paris Delivery management, orchestrate and oversee architecture orientation of all solutions, cost estimations of projects, etc.
\xc2\xb7 Setup and track individual team member KPI with proper audit trail by reviewing on fixed intervals and incase of improvements needed, to propose improvement plans with member
\xc2\xb7 Discover and groom talents within the team, plan for succession and redundancy
\xc2\xb7 Create team culture and condition to promote and maintain good level of staff motivationTeam Organization/Governance\xc2\xb7 Forecasting of team momentum based on overall roadmap demands and escalate promptly for help if required
\xc2\xb7 Through the collaboration of Project manager - to review project governance, models and monitor the efficiency of the framework and project outputs
\xc2\xb7 Challenge business needs and provide delivery through highest business values in respective implementation by incorporating proper governance in project delivery and process
\xc2\xb7 Organization of team in order to fully support/maintain application in production and respecting all SLA
\xc2\xb7 Alignment of team and support teams to properly apply the practices of RUN/BAUSupplementary InformationTeam Know-Hows\xc2\xb7 Challenge externals teams on overall E2E solution so as to ensure that solution implemented within team has no regression impact and vice versa
\xc2\xb7 Build to guarantee level of delivery quality in order to achieve sponsors\' agreement to project deliverables and maintain level of stability of application in productQualifications and ProfileThis position requires a minimum of 10+ years of relevant IT experiences of leading software delivery, team management, ideally in a banking environment with the following:

• Preferred at least 5+ years development experience in one of the following languages: C, Java, Golang, Phyton
• At least 5 years of experience in managing an IT development team
• Strong experience in designing and delivering green field projects
• Strong experience in micro-service architecture is preferred
• Experienced in various E2E technological parameters from Spring Framework, Docker/Kubernetes, Storm, Kafka, HBASE, ElasticSearch
• Excellent understanding and proven experience on quality code deliverables and working with platforms like Sonarqube/GIT
• Practical experience on working with application servers like Jboss, Jetty, Webphere.
• Experienced in solution design using proven patterns, awareness of anti-patterns, performance tuning

Functional

• Financial/banking industry knowledge is strong plus.
• Knowledge of Cash Management systems is a strong plus - e.g. ISO20022, Business validations, Payments flow, etc.

Position locationGeographical areaAsia, SingaporeCitySingapourCandidate criteriaMinimal education levelBachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalentAcademic qualification / Specialitybachelor and above in relevant disciplineLevel of minimal experience6-10 yearsExperienceOther Professional Skills and Mind-set

• Strong organizational and communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong ownership and accountability
• Team spirit - sharing knowledge
• Awareness of various software development procedures/trends
• Willing to work on new topics and to collectively propose innovative solutions

Cr\xc3\xa9dit Agricole