Total 3 job vacancies by Credit Agricole Corporate And Investment Bank

Who we are

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Banking (CA-CIB) is the CIB arm of Crédit Agricole Group, world’s 11th largest bank by total assets.

Our Singapore center is one of the 3 main IT Hubs for CA-CIB's worldwidebusiness. We work daily with international branches located in 33 countries by:

- Envisioning and preparing the Bank’s futures information systems

- Partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large scale development projects.

- Providing premium In-house Banking applications,

This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market.

We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges.

Position

In a challenging and multicultural environment, we seek a senior project management manager to manage the Project management (PM) team and to drive the complex programs/projects, part of the control tower section.

Mission: by mobilizing and managing project teams and contributors, you will conduct projects from inception to completion, to reach the project goals in terms of quality, planning and budget.

Within an international environment, you will have to liaise with all kind of stakeholders and align your resources to the target set together with the business in order to meet the bank objectives.

Main responsibilities

§ Manage the list of CIB IT projects, collaborating with leadership across the departments and prioritize projects based on the business need.

§ Direct the work of Project managers and provides managerial oversight for multiple projects

§ Act as point of escalation for the Project management team.

§ Create and develop a governance structure for efficient stakeholder management

§ Promote the project management service

§ Develops organizational project management capabilities through training, coaching, and individual meetings/discussions

§ Develop strategy for control and governance structures to ensure desired outcomes across the projects

§ Monitor and analyse project metrics and to propose improvements and cost savings for future projects

§ Ensure successful delivery of all projects against cost, time, scope, quality and security measures

§ Operate autonomously and handle large scale APAC/EMEA regional IT projects by understanding local regulations.

§ Clarify the needs of the client and translate them into rigorous requirement lists

§ Identify standard and project specific deliverables, key assumptions, follow and mitigate risks and issues

§ Anticipate early in the project any compliance / regulatory requirement and start informing stakeholders of such risk and measure their impact

§ Define, measure and report project KPI with right level of information

§ Identify right resource within teams and constitute / coordinate project team members

§ Report or escalate any important risk and issues to Sponsor and local management for appropriate action

§ Create, review or adapt when necessary existing processes to make them more relevant, efficient and optimal

§ Communicate to Sponsor any change with right level of information and manage to get his approval

§ Follow, report budget actual/forecast to project stakeholders and local management

§ Set relevant control in place to ensure that what has been delivered meets requirements validated

§ Manage and document the project hand over with production teams

§ Continuously improve project management toolkits and methodologies

Qualifications and Profile

This position requires a minimum of 8 years of relevant experiences, ideally in a CIB banking environment.

§ Leadership

§ Excellent team management skills

§ Strong ability to understand the big picture

§ Ability to drill down complex issues to simple comprehensible terms

§ Demonstrated skill to work across functions, regions and cultures

§ Excellent problem solving and conflict resolution skillset

§ Strong communication with wide variety of individuals at all executive levels

§ Ability to Influence and motivate

Functional

§ Expertise in project cycle management and methodology

§ Ability to anticipate and manage risks

§ Hands on knowledge and understanding of Infrastructure main components

§ Strong project management experience with ability to work on multiple projects at the same time

§ PMP or other certification would be a plus

Technical

§ Experience in dealing with detailed IT Architecture in banking industry.

§ Practical knowledge in Network, Security, Data Center, Windows, Linux, Aix, VMware, Citrix, SAN, Kubernetes and Middleware components.

§ Exposure working with DevOps & Cloud technologies.

§ Familiarity in handling Cyber Security and regulatory projects.

§ Strong experience in working with tools like MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Visio.

§ Understanding of software development will be a plus

Other Professional Skills and Mindset

§ High organizational skills including time management

§ Excellent verbal and written communication across all levels of the organization

§ Team player mindset

§ Able to cope with multiple technologies, environment and teams, with high pressure

§ Good influencing, negotiation, conflict resolution and data analysis skills

Summary of the position:

The cyber Security Architect is a senior-level position responsible for planning, designing, testing, implementing and maintaining our organization’s network security infrastructure. He also evaluates the security of the organization's systems for vulnerabilities. He participates to penetration tests, risk analyses on LANs, WANs, and VPNs. He also determines the efficacy and efficiency of routers, firewalls, and comparable systems, they also evaluate these systems.

Main responsibilities:

• Production Level 3 support for Network and Security infrastructure.
• Design, develop, and implement secure system architectures.
• Embed security principles into the design of system architectures to mitigate the risks posed by new technologies and business practices.
• Design artefacts, spanning design, development, and implementation, into enterprise systems that describe security principles and how they relate to the overall enterprise system architecture.
• • Perform routine activities related to the periodic review and audit activities of infrastructure security systems and maintains documentation of security standards and procedures.
• Gaining a total understanding of the organization’s technology and information systems
• Planning, researching, and designing reliable, powerful, and flexible security architectures for all IT projects
• Defining, creating, implementing, and maintaining all needed corporate security policies and procedures, making sure that all employees abide by them
• Developing requirements for all IT assets including routers, firewalls, local area networks (LANs), wide-area networks (WANs), virtual private networks (VPNs), and any other related network devices
• Reviewing and approving the installation of all firewalls, VPN, routers, servers, and IDS scanning technologies
• Preparing cost estimates for all cybersecurity measures and identifying any potential integration issues
• Providing technical guidance and supervision for security teams
• Taking charge of any security awareness programs and educational efforts to better prepare non-IT personnel
• Responding immediately to any security-related incidents (e.g., data breaches, viruses, phishing scams)
• Updating and upgrading the organization’s security systems as needed

Legal and Regulatory Responsibilities:

• Comply with all applicable legal, regulatory and internal Compliance requirements, including, but not limited to, the Singapore Compliance manual and Compliance policies and procedures as issued from time to time; Financial Security requirements, including, but not limited to, the prevention of Financial Crime and Fraud including reporting obligations to the Money Laundering Reporting Officer/Compliance Officer.
• Maintain appropriate knowledge to ensure to be fully qualified to undertake the role. Complete all mandatory training as required to attain and maintain competence.

Job Specific Environment and/or Organization

• Fluent in English written and spoken
• Working hours will be in rotating shifts and primarily to cover Europe business hours
• On-call support will be expected on a rotational basis on both weekdays and weekends

Summary of the position/scope of work:

Sybase & PostgreSQL team in Singapore is responsible for day-to-day operational services on the infrastructure of Europe (mainly France , UK) and Asia remotely from Singapore. France infrastructure represents approximately 80% of the worldwide production activities of CA-CIB in Singapore

• Sybase & PostgreSQL Expert is a technical expert role within the Database team and will be responsible for managing, administration and supporting the Sybase & PostgreSQL Database technologies for the bank.
• He/She will be the technical point of contact for the Run team.
• He/She will be a technical L3 resource for Sybase & PostgreSQL database services in CA-CIB. As such, he/she will provide support for all production support activities within the Database team in Singapore.
• He/She is accountable for the overall health and stability of the technical solutions within his scope.
• He/She has to effectively work with technical peers such as architects, peer experts and project teams on technology road maps and projects.
• · He/She will work with L3/Service Manager to gain control over the scope of technical activities, develop best practices and gain knowledge over all aspects of support.

Scope of duties:

Job Responsibilities

The Expert has a wide spectrum of responsibilities and actions. Person will be responsible for following (but not limited to) responsibilities in day-to-day work:

As the Expert of the team, he/she:

• act as the last level of escalation for the team members
• own Incident, Problem and change management process for the team
• assigns technical tasks and manages delegation
• animates the team to encourage collaboration and sharing of practices
• participates to recruitment process for the team

As the Expert of his/her scope of activity, he/she:

• is actively involved in incident management (fault investigation, resolution escalations of all monitoring alerts and user initiated problem calls/tickets) and request management
• Is the final technical approver for any changes into Sybase and PostgreSQL technology and is accountable for any technical changes in the environment from a RUN/BAU perspective
• Is involved in projects like End of Life, New Builds, migrations and technical upgrades of the solution managed by the team
• Participates in global Infra events (like Power down and DR Tests)
• ensures activity is performed in compliance with norms, standards, processes and procedures
• ensures documentation is up to date and relevant for use
• lead the continuous improvement initiatives
• responsible to drive and deliver root cause for any high severity issues
• Focus on automation and optimum use of the team to improve efficiency
• Maintain appropriate knowledge to ensure to be fully qualified to undertake the role.
• Complete all mandatory training as required to attain and maintain competence

Legal and Regulatory Responsibilities:

• Comply with all applicable legal, regulatory and internal Compliance requirements, including, but not limited to, the Singapore Compliance manual and Compliance policies and procedures as issued from time to time; Financial Security requirements, including, but not limited to, the prevention of Financial Crime and Fraud including reporting obligations to the Money Laundering Reporting Officer/Compliance Officer.
• Maintain appropriate knowledge to ensure to be fully qualified to undertake the role. Complete all mandatory training as required to attain and maintain competence.

Job Specific Environment and/or Organization

• Fluent in English
• Work schedule is mainly focused to support Asia and EMEA (Paris) time zone; however, may have to support during non-offce hours for critical incidents or escalation as per the assigned on-call support requirements;
• Rotational Shift schedule is followed;
• Work Hours: 2 PM – 11 PM SGT (with 1 week of General shift 9 AM – 6 PM SGT).

Requirements

• 8 - 10 years of Sybase & PostgreSQL DBA experience in administration and management of IT Database technologies primarily Sybase ASE & Replication , PostgreSQL cluster with replication solutions;
• Bachelors/masters/engineering graduate or equivalent technical degree in Information Technology or Computer Science;
• Knowledge of different domains of IT Security;
• Working & hands-on experience in administering the DB technologies;
• Must have experience in working in similar Production setup in Run (Operations) mode;
• Ability to apply risk based approach while working on assigned responsibilities;
• Experience in defining, implementing, and enforcing Database Security policies for data security solutions;
• Must have working experience in a Large enterprise level environment, working experience in financial organization is preferred;
• Excellent in analytical, communication and documentationskills;
• Ability to organize work and be able to priories work as per the needs of Production Operation’s needs;
• Must have strong understanding of ITIL processes and comfortable working in process oriented