Vice President, Corporate Systems Delivery bei CLS-Group
CLS-Group · London, Vereinigtes Königreich · Hybrid
- Senior
- Optionales Büro in London
About CLS:
CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day.
Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.
CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.
Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people. Our values underpin everything that we do at CLS and define our working environment:
- Pivotal purpose
- Trusted guardian
- Targeted innovation
- Facilitate connections
- Delivering excellence
- Inclusive culture
Job information:
- Functional title - Corporate Systems Delivery
- Department - Technology
- Corporate level - Vice President
- Report to - Director, Corporate Systems Technology
- Location - London, onsite 2 days per week
The role s expected to deliver solutions involving SaaS applications and manage the lifecycle of 120+ SaaS applications from a technology engagement and BAU aspects.
Must have:
- Experience of being part of BAU, Integration & delivery of SaaS applications in an enterprise landscape.
- Good stakeholder management experience interacting & managing with multiple technology teams across application development, infrastructure & engineering and application support teams.
- Good technical background and ability to drive & support cutover plan, activities and plans. Knowledge of Oracle HCM & Finance modules are a added plus.
- Good problem-solving skills
- Strong knowledge of SDLC processes
- Financial industry experience with experience in release management, enterprise-wide portfolio interlock management, infrastructure & middleware knowledge.
Main duties, responsibilities, and deliverables:
Project Activities
- Taking responsibility of the project delivery activities. This includes:
- Manage the overall end to end technology interlock across multiple projects in the application portfolio.
- Serve as a conduit between different technology teams to ensure all are aligned with stated dependencies, interlock management in line with agreed timeline.
- Actively work in a multi-vendor environment managing tasks across different technology teams and assist senior technology delivery leads across different projects.
- Serve as a central point of contact for all interlocks across all SaaS projects managing environment, release & deployment interlocks actively managing the plan with various technology teams.
- Good understanding of BAU lifecycle management of SaaS applications in managing an operating model focused on preventive maintenance, service offering and scalable support model.
- Work closely with the technology delivery leads to ensure the delivery of the business case objectives, ensuring it is delivered on schedule, and the business case benefits are realized.
- Work closely with technology delivery leads in supporting them with estimates required for project lifecycle. Actively manage deliveries across various dependency streams focused on infrastructure & middleware facets.
- Be accountable for adherence to technology policy and processes through the life of the project.
- Be accountable for technology cutover, interlocks, deployment and implementation activities by working closely with Technology delivery leads.
Level 3 Support
- Plan for resources and streamline process for Level 3 support
- Estimate support engagement, resource and capability needs for technology
- Timely reporting of critical issue to technology delivery management
- Ensure to remediate / triage production incidents as per defines SLAs
- Identify and address any key man dependencies
Professional Experience
- Delivery experience in the 'Financial Services’ domain
- Experience in Oracle based SaaS applications and modules.
- Proven experience in taking ownership and delivering projects on-time, on-scope, and on-budget in infrastructure & middleware domains.
- Experience managing IT change in a highly regulated environment
- Experience with working with vendors
- Experience of managing or working with teams within an offshore service model
Personal Traits/Competencies
- Growth mindset
- Good communication
- Analytical & problem solver
- Proactive
- Self-starter and Go-getter and To-do Attitudes
- Quick learner
- Motivated
- Flexible
- Team player
Essential Qualifications
Experience, education, and any certifications as necessary for successful job performance
- 15+ years of technology experience working in the areas of application development/infrastructure/middleware.
- 10+ years in the financial service industry preferred.
- Professional certifications in the areas of Infrastructure/Cloud/IaaS/SaaS is a plus.
Success Factors
Personal characteristics contributing to an individual’s ability to excel in the position
- Ability to analyze problems, get teams involved to solve and breakdown in deliverables
- Experience & ability to work in complex multi-vendor offshore/onshore/near shore environment
- Ability to work with and motivate diverse, globally distributed teams
- Quality oriented and demonstrate great attention to detail
- Technical & Business acumen
Our commitment to employees:
At CLS, we celebrate inclusion and consider this to be one of our strongest assets. We are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone feels comfortable to be who they are, and inclusion is valued. All employees have access to our inclusive benefits, including:
- Holiday - UK/Asia: 25 holiday days and 3 ‘life days’ (in addition to bank holidays). US: 23 holiday days.
- 2 paid volunteer days so that you can actively support causes within your community that are important to you.
- Generous parental leave policies to ensure you can enjoy valuable time with your family.
- Parental transition coaching programmes and support services.
- Wellbeing and mental health support resources to ensure you are looking after yourself, and able to support others.
- Employee Networks (including our Women’s Forum, Black Employee Network and Pride Network) in support of our organisational commitment to embrace and always be learning more about inclusivity.
- Hybrid working to promote a healthy work/life balance, enabling employees to work collaboratively in the office when needed and work from home when they don’t.
- Active support of flexible working for all employees where possible.
- Monthly ‘Heads Down Days’ with no meetings across the whole company.
- Generous non-contributory pension provision for UK/Asia employees, and 401K match from CLS for US employees.
- Private medical insurance and dental coverage.
- Social events that give you opportunities to meet new people and broaden your network across the organisation.
- Annual flu vaccinations.
- Discounts and savings and cashback across a wide range of categories including health and retail for UK employees.
- Discounted Gym membership – Complete Body Gym Discount/Sweat equity program for US employees.
- All employees have access to Discover – our comprehensive learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.
- Access to frequent development sessions on a number of topics to help you be successful and develop your career at CLS.
