Job Description

Credit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Credit 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.
Credit 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.
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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 2025-100091
Publication date 05/05/2025
Job description
Business type
Types of Jobs - IT, Digital et Data
Job title
ISAP CMI - Principal Engineering Architect
Contract type
Permanent Contract
Job summary
Position
Capital Markets IT (CMI) is the IT department within the bank focused on solutions related to Capital Markets. This includes Front Office (FO) booking platforms, Risk Management (RM) control and regulatory reporting systems, financial product and contract valuation systems, and much more. It is the department most directly exposed to the bank's financial operations.
As an Principal Engineering Architect, you will be working within the Architecture & Innovation team with a primary mandate to provide architecture guidance as part of the Design Authority. In additional to the gatekeeper role, there is a secondary mandate to accompany local teams to define strategic roadmaps, animate the engineer leadership, and create technical architecture and pattern, domain models, technical strategy.
Main responsibilities
As part of the IS Strategy the Principal Engineering Architect coordinates the elaboration of the IS Strategy, in partnership with the Head of IT Division and the Head of division. You ensure its consistency with the global CMI and GMD IS Strategy and its execution within CMI - led by CMI Architecture Team.
To reach this objective, you chair the Technical Community, composed of the Technical leaders of his IT Division. You will be contributing to CMI technical strategy definition as well as technical foundations. You identify your division's technical needs and requirements, ensures they are addressed/covered by technical foundations (when relevant) and contributes to market watch / experimentations.
You will be ensuring success criteria are defined upfront to promote alignment and actively manage to expected project outcomes in line with the program outcomes.
As part of an integrated organization across 3 main sites (Paris, SQY, Singapore), you will forge close relationships with program director, others team leads, architecture functions and quality assurance teams. There will be a limited travel aspect to this role (approx. 25%).
A strong maturity in project management is required as you will be part of the project committee, reporting the progress highlights with key performance indicator, evaluating risk assessment and proposing mitigation, ensuring transparency throughout project lifecycle.
Leads technical Information System Strategy
Collaborate with business stakeholders to elicit, co-create, and document business requirements and the overall business strategy
Collaborate with each business line to define technology roadmaps, technical architecture and the execution plans for technical components with a focus on Data and Business Processes (services)
Present strategic technology roadmap and evolution of our capabilities to heads of business. Reach agreements on their alignments with business goals and mid-term strategy and confirm business value delivered by investment in technologies.
Supplementary Information
Leads technical studies for the most critical projects of the IT Division
Contribute to the technology strategy and architecture of Capital Markets in support of our digital transformation (Cloud, API, data, Artificial Intelligent and security) and shift towards digital services and data-centricity
Ensure architecture decisions adhere to transformation drivers and architecture principles during the architecture practice lifecycle
Take a modern approach to technology architecture practice, incorporating DDD (Domain Driven Design) and Evolutionary Architecture approaches alignment with the digital transformation strategy of CACIB.
Discover, define and model technical architecture design in collaboration with technology & business stakeholders
Contribute to the definition of technical components, their data domains and associated data products for analytical consumption
Propose executable technical solutions where data is treated as a primary concern in the field of data, contributing to the development of a Data architecture using the concepts of Domain Driven Design and Data Mesh.
Supports the Technical Leaders in their technical activities
Within the community of CMI architects, take a leadership role in leading technology working groups to feed and improve our vision and to implement accelerators.
Ensures continuous Technical learning of its Technical Community, especially on Craftsmanship and DevOPS practices
Position location
Geographical area
Asia, Singapore
City
Singapour
Candidate criteria
Minimal education level
Bachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalent
Academic qualification / Speciality
At least a Bachelor's degree in any of these faculties:
Computer Science
Information Technology
Programming & Systems Analysis
Science (Computer Studies)
Level of minimal experience
11 years and more
Experience
Mandatory
At least 12+ years of experience in Information Technology arena with demonstrated experience around strategic planning, enterprise architecture preferably in banking & financial services, risk management and software engineering.
Experienced in leading technical design from inception to proof of concept
Good knowledge of strategic IT solutions and hands-on experience in software development.
A strong understanding of latest programming languages including Python, Java, Rust and Go
Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures, with strong fundamentals in complexity analysis
Experience in platform and/or product definition, operating model and change management
Strong ability to analyze code - understand execution flow & debug even
Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, MLOps and tooling
Good to Have
Understanding of trade life cycle, financial products (Treasury, FX, Bonds, Credit, IRD...)
Exposure to Capital Market FO/BO system
Understanding the complexity of internal relationships within a large corporate, you are comfortable at proactively engaging key stakeholders, managing individual concerns in order to propose achievable and comprehensive "high level plans".
Required skills
Other Professional Skills and Mindset
Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills across all levels with demonstrated ability to influence different stakeholders.
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Proficient in software development life cycle
Autonomy to include implicit deliverables in assignment based on best practices
Appetite to participate to technical market trends and communities
Candidate would be expected to provide insight and manage all technology relate aspects within the delivery team.