IT Infrastructure Project Manager

Crédit Agricole CIB; Singapore; On-site; SGD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Crédit Agricole CIB's Singapore ISAP center seeks an IT Infrastructure Project Manager to join the PMS team in a multicultural environment.

You will mobilize project teams, translate client needs into deliverables, manage budgets and risk, and liaise with stakeholders across markets to meet objectives.

Applicants should have at least 5 years of relevant experience in infrastructure projects, with strong MS Project and Office skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, ideally in a CIB banking environment.
• Expertise in project cycle management and risk anticipation.
• Strong infrastructure knowledge: networks, storage, databases.
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously; PMP is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Clarify client needs and translate into requirements.
• Identify deliverables, track risks, and mitigate issues.
• Define and report project KPIs to stakeholders.
• Manage budgets and ensure delivery meets requirements.
• Coordinate project teams and hand over to production.

Skills

Project management

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Team coordination

PMP

Data analysis

Time management

Negotiation

Tools

MS Project

Office Suite

Job description

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Banking (Crédit Agricole CIB) is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, world’s 10th largest bank by total assets.

Our Singapore center (“ISAP” or “Information Systems Asia Pacific”) is the 2nd largest IT setup (after Paris Head Office) for Crédit Agricole CIB's worldwide business. We work daily with international branches located in 30 markets 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 an IT Infrastructure Project Manager to join the Project management (PMS) team, part of the control tower department.

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

• 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 elevate 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 5 years of relevant experiences, ideally in a CIB banking environment.

Functional

• Expertise in project cycle management and methodology
• Ability to anticipate, 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

• Practical knowledge of virtual technologies in batches and SAN environment
• Experience in Network, Security, Storage, Database, Workplace, Telecom projects
• Strong MS Project and Office suite
• High level understanding of software development will be a plus

Other Professional Skills and Mindset

• High organizational skills including time management
• Able to cope with multiple technologies, environment and teams, with high pressure
• Good influencing, negotiation, conflict resolution and data analysis skills