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
- o Contribute to definition and implementation of Best Practices for secured development life cycle
- o Contribute to definition, implementation and maintenance of shared components/libraries/templates for.Net development landscape
- o Contribute to the choice of the technical stacks and products to be used inside the company (IT Technology Catalog)
- o Participate in assessment of proof of concept
- o Knowledge transfer to IT teams via trainings
- o Help IT domain on recruitment process to evaluate technical skills

Main actor for API governance inside competence center team
- o Propose governance model, strategy and best practice
- o Make sure guidelines are followed by IT teams
- o Training sessions
- o Managing collaboration with the CDO office

Application owner for a set of products used by all IT teams
- o Maintenance
- o Support
- o Managing obsolescence and vulnerabilities

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

Market review
- o Always be aware of major technology trends to maintain Candriam Information System in a state-of-the-art position
- o 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

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Position location

**Job location**:
Europe, Belgium

**City**:
Brussels

**Education**:
3. Master's Degree I / Bac+4

**Minimum level of experience required**:
6-10 years

**Languages**:

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