Head of IT Data

Position description

**Business unit**:
Operations, Data & IT - IT & Digital

**Job title**:
Head of IT Data & Referentials F/M

**Contract type**:
Permanent

**Candriam Group Presentation**:

- Candriam is a global multi-specialist asset manager and a recognized pioneer and leader in sustainable investment. For more than 25 years, Candriam has offered innovative and diversified investment solutions across many asset classes including fixed income, equities, absolute return, asset allocation and illiquid assets.
- As a Responsible Employer, Equal Employment Opportunity is crucial to Candriam. We are committed to building the best global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We provide an inclusive work environment and support wellbeing and work-life balance.

**Mission**:

- Team Management:

- Manage autonomous and agile teams (25 people: internal and external)
- Ensure continuity of service and continuous improvement of products
- Manage resources, capacities, budget and planning while respecting the IT processes in place.
- Manage the roadmap in collaboration with the business teams and the CDO (Chief Data Officer)
- Manage the delivery and ensure commitment towards IT and Business teams
- Manage level 3 support and collaborate with the production services department to ensure business support and satisfaction. Be proactive in improving service and participate actively in resolving incidents.
- Avoid technical debt and propose remediation plans consistent with the business roadmap
- Clearly report on the activity of the team and produce KPIs to measure continuous improvement.

IT Relation Management
- Work in collaboration with teams and/or domains managers: coordination of development, testing campaigns and global IT roadmap synchronization.
- Work closely with production services and architecture teams.
- Participate in IT transformation in coordination with the Agile Competence Center.

**Responsabilities**:

- Responsibilities
- As Head of IT domain, the main responsibilities are:

- She/He contributes to the transformation of the company.
- She/He promotes employees commitment and initiative.
- She/He promotes his team and develop strong relationships with their ecosystem.
- She/He verifies that projects are executed in the most optimized way.
- She/He continuously improves processes, deliverables and relationships to provide quality service and proximity to businesses.
- She/He monitors the IT KPIs dashboard and works on the continuous improvement of these KPIs.
- She/He motivates his managers and teams, he gives them the trajectory and ensures that the teamwork in optimal conditions.
- She/He encourages team membership and involvement.
- She/He gives meaning to everyone’s work and a common goal to the team.

**Profile**:
**Experience**:

- Team Management
- Minimum of 10 years 'experience in data projects
- Experience in implementation of modern BI, Central DataLake/Data Platform and Referential projects
- Experience in delivery using agile methodology specially Scrum Master
- Experience in managing a team of 10 members or more: internal and external
- Good functional knowledge of Asset Management/Financial field
- Good knowledge of Data Quality and Data Governance topics
- Good knowledge of concepts and uses of Data Cataloging and Data Lineage
- Good Knowledge of Azure cloud platform (DataLake, Analysis Services, Synapse, Fabric, Data Factory )

**Skills**:

- Master's degree with a minimum of 10 years' experience in management of teams and/or managers
- Experience in managing agile teams and delivery
- Good knowledge of IS organization and functioning, Software Architecture principles and infrastructure
- Ability to manage managers and teams.
- Ability to motivate and give a taste for challenge to managers and teams
- Leadership, training capacity of teams and business.
- Responsiveness, commitment to projects, ability to accelerate projects delivery.
- Curiosity, taste for innovation.
- Ability to work with business.
- Rigor and precision but also efficiency in the service of the business.
- Composure, resistance to pressure.
- Ability to work in a team, sense of collectiveness and transversality.
- Economic and financial

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Position location

**Job location**:
Europe, France

**City**:
Paris

**Education**:
4. Master's Degree II / Bac+5

**Minimum level of experience required**:
6-10 years

**Languages**:

- French (C1 - Fluent)
- English (C1 - Fluent)