Change Lead - Infrastructure Architecture

Project description

Join our Development Center in Bucharest, and become a member of our open-minded, progressive and professional team. In this role you will be working on projects for one our world famous clients. You will have a chance to grow your technical and soft skills, and build a thorough expertise of the industry of our client. On top of attractive salary and benefits package, Luxoft will invest into your professional training, and allow you to grow your professional career. The Divisional ambition is to drive efficiencies and to monetize its #1 position in Germany, to be a front-runner in digital banking, to keep up revenue growth imperative through investment in coverage and in product capabilities (incl. ESG) and to keep focus on efficient set-up to self-fund growth investments. PB has a strong footprint in the home market Germany and is acting as "global Hausbank" for the international business of PB. • Technology: Here we target a consolidated & modernized IT platform with a common core based on Service Oriented Architecture, APIs and Google cloud platform with maximum re-use of services and components. Target architecture is logically structured in three components: Systems of Engagement (Frontend), Systems of Insight (Data), Systems of Record (Backend). Additionally, we aim to maximize IT platform simplification by reducing the dependency on legacy backend systems in the different regions and the number of target applications whenever possible. • Operating model: Implementation of integrated Business & TDI Agile organization within sub-divisions, with cross-divisional synergy whenever applicable and based on a high share of engineers, efficient governance and stable processes to significantly reduce costs and support growth targets of Private Bank business areas. Private Bank process and governance framework is based on group standards and principles (Horizontals).

Responsibilities

• As a member of the Infrastructure Architecture team, you will be part of the team responsible for strategic Infrastructure activities across all domain areas. Your responsibilities will range from coordinating existing or new projects, guidelines and implementing technical frameworks to provide data efficiently and responsibly. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to collaborate with various stakeholders. As part of your role, you will gain a thorough understanding of migration and upgrade processes for Infrastructure components as we are investing heavily in keeping the infrastructure landscape up to date and avoid End of Life components. Main responsibilities:
• Planning project management, including setting deadlines, prioritizing tasks, and assigning stakeholders deliverables.
• Accurately documenting and building and leading kickoff project meetings
• Effectively coordinating Communications process (Meeting arrangements, creation of generic email addresses, live events communication) across workstreams and all stakeholders involved
• Taking responsibility and accountability for high level & mid level plan preparation
• Overseeing delivery monitoring
• Acting as a bridge between technical teams and TDI senior stakeholders, helping to communicate statuses in a clear and understandable manner and escalate if required.

SKILLS

Must have

• Skills Requirements
• 5+ years' experience in PMO/Project Management.
• Understanding of process lifecycle flows
• Understanding of technical Infrastructure concepts and components to be able to propose and coordinate technical infrastructure initiatives and alignment with DB's central Infrastructure team
• A project management approach to taking on tasks, completing them in a structured way with an eye to either automating or improving processes
• Experience of working in an agile environment, practicing Scrum, Kanban, XP or SAFe
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and fast changing environments
• Proven work experience as project manager, or equivalent position Soft Skills & People Management Skills
• Self-motivated with ability to work in virtual teams and matrix/global organizations including appreciation of different cultures during collaborating and sharing
• Well-developed analytical and problem-solving experience and ability to grasp new concepts, provide insights and solutions.
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Highly organized with ability to commit and priorities work duties and tasks.
• Excellent communications and documentation/presentation skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to navigate across different divisions and coordinate across divisions
• Strong interpersonal skills and team approach
• Ability to define distinct achievable goals based on broad requirements

Nice to have

German Language Fluent Speaker