Qualifications and Profile
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”.
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.
- Strong sense of confidentiality
Education Requirements
At least a Bachelor’s degree in any of these faculties:
- Computer Science
- Information Technology
- Programming & Systems Analysis
- Science (Computer Studies)
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.
