Senior Delivery Lead

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Banking (CA-CIB) is the CIB arm of Crédit Agricole Group, top 10 bank in the world by total assets. Our Singapore center is the 2nd main IT HUB after Paris. Our work has a worldwide reach:

- we envision and prepare the Bank’s futures information systems,

- we provide premium In-house applications,

- we collaborate with our businesses to create the future corporate banking ecosystem of the bank aligned with our key transformation objectives.

Leveraging our unique positioning, we can attain a sustainable competitive advantage in the market. We are seeking creative and adaptable individuals who embody the Bank’s values to support ambitious technological challenges.

What You'll Do:

1. Architect a Powerful Ecosystem: Develop a platform that fosters collaboration between investors, lenders, and clients, streamlining deal flow across syndicated markets.
2. Embrace Complexity: Design a system capable of managing diverse loan formats, large lender pools, institutional investors, and multi-product offerings.
3. Boost Efficiency: Drive agility through more focused and structured transactions, optimizing deal execution.
4. Navigate the Regulatory Landscape: Implement solutions that adhere to evolving regulations like Basel IV and IFRS 9.

The position requires autonomy and reliability in performing duties while maintaining close communication with the rest of the program. The candidate will need to develop a good understanding of both IT systems and business processes and drive delivery of systems that are at forefront of transformation.

Main responsibilities

1. Act as a primary point of contact between multiple development teams and senior stakeholders.
2. Track and communicate project progress, risks, issues regularly and facilitate project and program committees.
3. Lead and facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives and ensure that team adheres to agile principles and values.
4. Work closely with product owners to manage and prioritize product backlog and ensure that teams understand goals and ensure cross-team collaboration when needed.
5. Ensure the quality of team deliverables by fostering continuous improvement mindset.
6. Mentor and coach team members fostering professional growth and development.
7. Ensure that teams are well balanced in terms of skills and experience by managing recruitments, performance reviews and career development plans.
8. Identify and mitigate risks that impact project delivery and develop contingency plans.
9. Implement changes to enhance productivity across organization.
10. Contribute to the strategic planning and direction of the IT transformation program.

Qualifications and Profile

This position requires around 15+ years of experience in delivery management of large scale projects focused on digital transformations.

Technical

1. Full understanding of project management standards and terminologies. Certifications like PMP or PRINCE2 is desirable but not mandatory.
2. Very good understanding of project management tooling like WBS, MS project, JIRA etc.
3. Very good understanding of system design, development methodologies, testing frameworks, deployment and maintenance activities.
4. Working experience with Agile Methodology in at least one project.
5. Good knowledge and experience in implementing best practices for software engineering.
6. Basic knowledge of architecture frameworks.

Functional

1. General knowledge of corporate and investment banking especially financing domain.
2. Good understanding of SDLC.

Other Professional Skills and Mindset

1. Solid analytical and problem solving abilities.
2. Very good organization skill with attention to details.
3. Willing to work on new topics and to propose innovative solutions.
4. Proactive with team player mindset.
5. Hands on and versatile with capability to effectively interact with technical team.
6. Proficiency in application project management.
7. Strives to deliver the solution in the most effective and timely manner.
8. Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

General information

About Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (Crédit Agricole CIB): Crédit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit 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. Crédit 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. For more information, please visit www.ca-cib.com. 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.