Senior IT Technical Expert F/M

Position description

Business unit

Operations, Data & IT - IT & Digital

Job title

Senior IT Technical Expert F/M

Contract type

Permanent

Candriam Group Presentation

Candriam is a global multi-specialist asset manager and a recognized pioneer and leader in sustainable investment. For more than 25 years, Candriam has offered innovative and diversified investment solutions across many asset classes including fixed income, equities, absolute return , asset allocation and illiquid assets.

As a Responsible Employer, Equal Employment Opportunity is crucial to Candriam. We are committed to building the best global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We provide an inclusive work environment and support wellbeing and work-life balance.

Mission

As a recognized authority within your area of expertise, you will serve as a key reference point in the competence center. Your responsibilities include:

Expertise & Innovation: Maintain deep, up-to-date knowledge in your field and contribute to defining standards, best practices, and innovative solutions.

Technical Leadership: Provide guidance on architecture and technical documentation, solve complex problems, and support major business and IT transformations.

Knowledge Sharing: Communicate complex topics clearly, mentor technical analysts, and deliver training—especially for newcomers.

Collaboration & Responsibility: Work cross-functionally to tackle multidisciplinary challenges, actively contribute to competence center initiatives, and take full ownership of your missions and outcomes.

Responsabilities

Active member of the competence centre team

• Ensures technical consistency of applications by checking they comply with the Technology catalogue during Architecture Review process
• Contribute to definition and implementation of Best Practices for secured development life cycle
• Contribute to definition, implementation and maintenance of shared components/libraries/templates for .Net development landscape
• Contribute to the choice of the technical stacks and products to be used inside the company (IT Technology Catalog)
• Participate in assessment of proof of concept
• Knowledge transfer to IT teams via trainings
• Help IT domain on recruitment process to evaluate technical skills

Main actor for API governance inside competence center team

• Propose governance model, strategy and best practice
• Make sure guidelines are followed by IT teams
• Training sessions
• Managing collaboration with the CDO office

Application owner for a set of products used by all IT teams

• Maintenance
• Support
• Managing obsolescence and vulnerabilities

Support to business for Python

• Provide business developers with best practice and guidelines
• Integrate their work into our secured development life cycle process
• Pro active partnership to help business implement new strategies with Python

Market review

• Always be aware of major technology trends to maintain Candriam Information System in a state-of-the-art position
• Key technical domains : Microsoft frameworks, Microsoft Azure stacks, API Management and Python

Profile

Technical skills

• Microsoft .Net expertise : .Net / ASP.Net Core / Blazor
• API standards, governance, management for a .net ecosystem
• Test based development frameworks (unit testing, manual and automation integration)
• Microsoft Azure development stacks
• Azure devops specialist (ideally with a certification)
• Agile practitioner (ideally with a certification)
• Some Python experience as a developer would be appreciated

Job location

Candidate criteria

Education

• Master's Degree I / Bac+4

Minimum Level Of Experience Required
6-10 years

Languages

• French (C1 - Fluent)
• English (C1 - Fluent)