💼Job Title: IT Strategy - Architect
👨💻Job Type: Contract
👨💻Who can apply: Anyone
📍Location: Brussels Belgium
📍Language: English and French
💼Work regime: Hybrid (2 days/week onsite)
🔥Keywords: IT strategists, Product Owner,
Sector
Our client is a prominent player in the financial sector, recognized for its comprehensive range of banking and financial services. With a global presence, it serves a diverse clientele, including individuals, corporations, and institutions. Emphasizing innovation and customer-centricity, it leverages advanced technologies to deliver tailored solutions that meet the evolving needs of its stakeholders.
Position Overview:
The IT Strategy team is growing and is looking for re-enforcement in support, coordination and communication.
Topics on the agenda are many: cloud evolutions, obsolescence management, API governance, data products' adoption, IT Architecture updated rules and principles, etc.
Success here will come from increased impact, scope and credibility.
What you'll do:
· Support the IT Strategy team lead in
· Overall project portfolio management
· Preparation of several transversal Initiative Boards (project steerco)
· Analysis of the bank's budget preparation exercise
· Assist in critical thinking, research, analysis, communication, and change management
· Definition and follow-up of action plans on complex topics (i.e. clarification of requirements, coordination of contributors, dashboarding, follow-up to closure on-time)
· Gather input from various stakeholders (e.g. SME, architects, IT strategists, product owners) to deliver slide decks for upper management (right messages, tone tuned to audience, visually polished)
· Maintain up-to-date views on the department budget and actuals, follow-up of department's action backlog
What you bring:
· 5+ years of working in Consulting firm or
· Extensive Experience in working on IT Strategy Formulation and Implementation, Strategic Planning, IT Project and Program Planning and Management, Change Management
· Experience in delivering projects and experience in working with IT managers as CIO, CTO, head of Architecture and CISO
· Ability to understand and navigate the decision-making context of the bank (organization, structure, key roles and processes, main stakeholders, ...)
· Ability to work with IT managers and senior IT Architects to collaboratively design the expected deliverables
· Ability to perform retrospectives and lessons-learned analysis to as to improve the impact of the IT Strategy team
