Head of Information Technologies/Chief Information Officer (m/f/n)

Your missions:

As Head of IT/CIO, you will be responsible for defining and steering the bank's IT strategy, guaranteeing the stability and security of the IT environment, and leading its digital transformation to sustainably support the performance, innovation, and evolution of the organization.

Your main responsibilities are as follows:

1. Manage the IT department consisting of approximately 400 professionals, including 250 internal employees as well as a significant number of external experts engaged for temporary missions
2. Define and deploy the bank's overall IT strategy, covering infrastructure, applications, data, operational processes, enterprise architecture, and IT governance
3. Represent the IT function to the Management Committee, the Board of Directors, and external stakeholders (suppliers, auditors, regulators, etc.)
4. Design and steer the strategic technological transformation, ensuring continuous improvement of IT quality, reliability, and production, as well as an increase in operational efficiency
5. Lead digitalization, simplification, and automation initiatives for systems, processes, and procedures within the bank
6. Ensure the development and implementation of scalable, efficient, and high-value-added IT solutions for internal and external clients
7. Assume responsibility for protecting the bank against IT risks, cyber threats, data loss or leakage, and ensure the aggregation, monitoring, and reporting of IT risk data and indicators
8. Collaborate closely with business lines and control functions, including the second line of defense, risk management, as well as legal and compliance departments, to ensure alignment between business and IT strategy
9. Monitor market technological developments and promote training and awareness initiatives, contributing to the continuous strengthening of digital capabilities within the bank

Required qualifications:

1. Holder of a Master's degree in a field of computer science, engineering, mathematics, or business administration
2. Significant experience in high-level IT functions, with solid expertise in team management and steering large-scale technological transformations within financial institutions
3. Mastery of French and English languages. Knowledge of the Luxembourgish language is an asset

Technical skills:

The acquisition of these skills may, based on demonstrated learning predispositions, be carried out through the coaching and training proposed by the Bank during the job start and integration period.

Business skills:

1. Functioning of the banking and financial sector
2. IT Risks
3. IT Security
4. Transformation or “organisational development”
5. Acting as a « Subject Matter Expert »
6. Identification and management of strategic impacts
7. Decision-making within one's field of expertise

IT and digital skills:

1. Technological monitoring (new digital technologies)

Behavioral skills:

1. Adopt a collaborative attitude with professional interlocutors
2. Translate strategy and conceptual orientations into concrete and measurable objectives
3. Support employees in their professional development
4. Adopt respectful, upright, and inclusive leadership
5. Encourage managers to take responsibility and establish a feedback culture
6. Proactively build cross-functional working relationships by providing credible advice and taking others' opinions into account

Reasons to join Spuerkeess:

1. Voted most attractive employer in Luxembourg in 2023 according to the Randstad Study
2. Strong commitment to social and economic responsibility
3. Attractive salary conditions with a public law status assimilated to that of State employees
4. High flexibility of working hours and hybrid work mode
5. Personalized onboarding program with follow-up throughout integration
6. Wide range of training and strong internal mobility synonymous with career development
7. Well-being at work initiatives and free Spuerkeess fitness room with group classes

Recruitment information:

Please send us your CV and a cover letter by applying directly on our career site. A criminal record will be requested during the recruitment process. For diplomas obtained abroad, outside the Benelux, registration in the register of university degree titles issued by the Ministry of Research and Higher Education must mandatory be introduced.

In accordance with our values of equity and respect, we foster an inclusive and diverse work environment. Thus, we are committed to equal opportunities and encourage all qualified and eligible candidates to apply, regardless of their gender identity/expression, age, ethnic and cultural origin, religion and beliefs, sexual orientation, disability or neurodiversity, or any other personal characteristic.

We inform you that this opportunity is managed in part by an external recruitment firm. As such, we will forward your CV and contact details (name, phone number, email) to our partner who will contact you for the rest of the process.