Job description

Main responsibilities

·       Organize and prepare the Software Engineering capabilities according to the needs of the bank.

·       Create a sustainable and productive environment for the teams to be in the best level of performance while developing themselves.

·       Ensure the utmost level of quality of the deliverables produced by the department.

·       Manage the budget of the IT Business Line contribution as well as the department internal budget.

·       Implement the directives, ways of working and overall strategy of the bank inside the department.

·       Ensure a proper level of project management and software engineering according to the bank standards and in collaboration with Head of CBI.

·       Represent the department in front of the Business and IT Management in collaboration with the IT Business Line managers.

·       Ensure a continuous work on the improvement of the Ways Of Working, tooling, sourcing, training, coaching, methodology, software engineering, organization and governance of the department as well as Singapore Center as a whole.

·       Lead innovation within the department and contribute at Information Systems Asia Pacific-Singapore (ISAP)  and at global Information Services & Risk IT (ISR) level to the identification and adoption of new innovative technologies/practices and way of working.

Qualifications and Profile 

·       At least 20+ years of experience managing development teams.

·       Strong leadership with capacity to lead by influence.

·       People centric mindset with successful experiences of senior people development and coaching.

·       Capacity to attract and retain talents.

·       Excellent project/program management expertise (PMP, Prince2, CMMI, RUP, SAFe or LeSS certifications are appreciated).

·       Experience in designing and delivering green and brown field projects.

·       Relevant experience in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering  approach.

·       Strong programming background (Java, .Net, Go, Rust, Node.JS etc) to influence the technology directions.

·       Hands-on design experience with APIs, microservices, UI/UX technologies, big data, cloud, API, etc.

·       Good domain knowledge Corporate Banking, especially in Core Banking, Strcutured Finance, Commercial & Syndicated Lending.

·       Strong curious mindset with lifelong learner approach.

Complément

Position
Directly reporting to the Head of ISAP, the head of CBI is fully in charge of the End-To-End Software Engineering practices delegated to him/her. These practices are organized by Business Lines (Transaction Banking, Financing, Regulatory Reporting etc), in various feature teams in charge of the different applications and projects of  the perimeter.
With 150-200 staffs, the department contribute to multiple strategic projects of the bank ranging from 1 to 200 MEuros pluri-annual budget. To do so, the department is developing multiple green-field innovative solutions based on state-of-the-art technological stacks as well as vendor solutions when relevant.