Team Leader Cobol with French

Societe Generale Global Solution Centre (SG GSC) acts as a business solution center for Societe Generale, one of the largest European financial groups. If you are looking for a great career opportunity within the IT world, then you are in the right place.

Our IT Filiere has over 800 IT professionals, delivering services on four perimeters: Retail Banking, Security and Infrastructure, Internal Support Applications and Investment Banking. And our team is ready to expand and find new awesome colleagues to embark on this journey..

What you will do:

- Lead, motivate, and develop a team of specialists, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

- Maintain the connection between the SG GSC RO and France teams in terms of communications, alerts and escalation of any risks
- Monitor Tasks Planning, management of workloads and alerts on milestones in risk

- Manage staff allocation and workload in sync with operational budgets

- Have an understanding of the skills required to carry out the projects and promote a growth mindset inside the team

- Responsible for identifying and implementing action plans for optimizing and improving services

- Offer mentorship and provide guidance for the Team;

- Ensure the management and the monitoring of the operation for all the perimeters of the team
- Ensure that the team's commitments are respected on a daily basis with interlocutors
- Ensure the first level of filter on outgoing team communications - Support communications and escalations

- Ensure internal visibility on the project status
- Facilitate knowledge sharing, best practices, and skills development within the team

- Ensure the team adheres to organizational standards, processes, and compliance requirements.
- Responsible for resource management: career level and assignments

- Set clear objectives, provide regular feedback, and conduct performance reviews and career discussions
- Escalade the training needs and people managements risks
- Support recruitment, onboarding, and professional growth of team members

- Responsible for improvement plans for team members in collaboration with hierarchy and HR

- Work closely with N+1 to plan and follow the recruitment resources, to scale the actual team, based on Product mgmt. and partners needs

- Contribute to the team management, evaluation, meetings animation, communication;

- Role implies Leading/management activities and operational development tasks in day to day activities.

• At least 5+ years of proven experience on Core banking , Risk and/or conformity activities

• At least 5+ years of practical experience in Cobol/Mainframe application development and the related usual tools

• Proven experience with DB2

• Participate in the estimation of workload required to achieve the development and unit tests

• Strong experience with standards development and optimal procedures (architecture, security, quality, documentation).

• Mainframe knowledge is mandatory JCL

• You have a Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

• French is mandatory

We also value:

·        Able to lead others while keeping a good team spirit;

·        Strive to continuously gain business knowledge in order to help the team understand business needs;

·        Focus on software quality and operability of the solutions developed;

·        Solution orientation and conflict management skills.

Here, you will find a flexible workplace and culture, autonomy, constant learning opportunities, dynamism, and talented people, making this experience a real career accelerator. You will also discover all the diversity of our businesses, in a sector that is constantly evolving and innovating.

Plus, you will enjoy all our benefits:

• competitive compensation & remuneration, including annual performance bonus;

• preventive healthcare plan, and group health & life insurance;

• wide range of flexible benefits within a monthly budget;

• office perks, wellbeing and mental health programs;

• various social benefits and bonuses for personal or family events;

• 9-to-5 workday and flexible work from home/office environment;

• additional paid and unpaid time off, including Sabbatical leave;

• learning and growth opportunities based on individual development and career plans;

• unlimited access to various eLearning resources.

We are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious. Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years, or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating, and taking action are part of our DNA.

If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful daily and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!

Still hesitating?

You should know that our employees can dedicate several days per year to solidarity actions during their working hours, including sponsoring people struggling with their orientation or professional integration, participating in the financial education of young apprentices, and sharing their skills with charities. There are many ways to get involved.

We are an equal opportunities employer, and we are proud to make diversity a strength for our company. Societe Generale is committed to recognizing and promoting all talents, regardless of their beliefs, age, disability, parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, sexual or gender identity, sexual orientation, membership of a political, religious, trade union or minority organisation, or any other characteristic that could be subject to discrimination.