Squad Lead; AI Delivery

Division:
Group Digital Capabilities (GDC)

By joining the Group Digital and Capabilities Division, you will be joining an international and geographically spread team that, through strong collaboration, articulates the business strategy and engages the company to deliver and grow profitable products and services. You will contribute to growing our relevance in post trade by realizing the regulatory agenda in strengthening the financial industry, leveraging our franchise to expand globally and re-architecting the post trade landscape.

Within the GDC Division, the Analytics, Insights and Reporting Tribe supports the needs for advanced analytics and reporting from all the entities of the Euroclear Group. The team helps to transform data into insights using techniques such as descriptive analysis, text mining, machine learning, process mining, network analytics, and predictive modelling.

To this aim, the team is running:

• The Data & Analytics Platform (DAP) – Hadoop-based, used as group-wide Data Lake, and able to perform advanced analytics treatment (including Machine Learning & AI)
• The group Data Warehouse (SQL server), used as a source for reporting tools such as Cognos & Power BI.
• The Cloud Data Platform (MS Azure), serving both Data & Analytics purposes.

AI Delivery squads help deliver solutions using techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, large language models, Agentic, mathematical optimization, etc.

Your role will be to lead the AI Delivery of one stream-aligned squad.

By joining the Analytics, Insights and Reporting Tribe, you will be in charge of:

• Leading the new squad towards being a professional and seamless value delivering entity.
• Managing a team of IT professionals and AI Experts across several locations, and managing relationships with outsourcing partners.
• Organising the AI delivery capacity and growing the velocity/quality of deliveries.
• Overseeing delivery-related risks and mitigations jointly with the Epic Delivery owners, product owners, and stakeholders.
• Co-driving (with tribe lead) the connection with customer-facing stakeholders and ensuring adequacy of delivered solutions to the business needs.

You will also have the following responsibilities:

• Defining, leading, and executing the strategic direction while reaching objectives and key results.
• Steering the transformation and improvement of the team.
• Through influence as well as assertiveness, contributing to maturing the tribe service offering.
• Being the ambassador of newly created capabilities.
• Ensuring relevant knowledge is created within the new organization.
• Developing capabilities for quick fix of production issues.
• Having a "can do" attitude and focusing on getting things done.
• Building relationships, both internally and externally, with key stakeholders at all levels.
• Defining and implementing services, practices, processes, and tools.
• Promoting and championing agile cooperation to enhance customer experience.
• Overseeing, developing, and ensuring adherence to industry best practice standards.
• Managing and optimizing operational efficiency to meet financial targets.

This is a management role. The candidate for this position must have solid working experience in IT delivery leadership positions, in assessing and driving value creation, and in managing relationships with cross-location partners.

A strong experience in setting the strategic vision, direction, and standards for championing a best-in-class customer service is a real asset.

The squad lead must also possess strong leadership skills, being able to provide direction. Strategic agility, self-reflection, and inspiring/engaging are important skills needed to be a strong leader lding a high performing team, ensuring it is focused, motivated, and inspired to achieve the objectives will be key.

The candidate must demonstrate expertise in AI technology and a track record in delivering AI solutions. He/she must be able to assess the soundness of delivered solutions and their future-proof aspects. He/she must also be able to assess the technical skills of future hires in the team.

A candidate for this position will be a strategic and creative thinker, be result-driven with proven track of records, be self-motivated and proactive, be open and welcoming to change, and work comfortably in a constantly evolving environment.

He/She must also work comfortably in a group/collaborative setting or with business executives and stakeholders, have an ability to handle multiple simultaneous projects and meet tight deadlines, and have an ability to remain calm under pressure and in the face of uncertainty.

• Strong communication skills
• Decision-making capacity in complex and uncertain environments
• Good understanding of business strategy, needs, and challenges
• Ability to motivate the team
• Servant leadership for the Tribe leadership and delivery…