Team Manager - IT Security

Company Description

Natixis in Portugal is fully integrated in the global organization of Natixis, a French multinational financial services firm specialized in Asset & Wealth Management, Corporate & Investment Banking, Insurance and Payments. A subsidiary of Groupe BPCE, Natixis counts nearly 16.000 employees across 38 countries.

Based in Porto, Natixis Centre of Expertise mission is to transform traditional banking by developing innovative solutions for the bank’s business, operations and work culture worldwide, as a key driver of the company’s culture of agility and innovation. Teams of IT and Banking Support Activities work in an integrated, inclusive and transversal way, supporting all the business lines and country platforms.

Natixis in Portugal is the best combination of a “start-up mindset” with a large, solid structure. Its unique culture gives true meaning to a “beyond banking” personality: to be a real entrepreneur, self-challenging, ever striving to excel and go that extra mile.

Job Description

We are looking for a Team Manager, for IT Security area, to work within the teams in Natixis em Portugal.

Reporting directly to the Head of BPCE IT business unit in Porto, and functionally attached to the IT Security Global Leader in Paris, you will oversee IT Security activities for several perimeters.

This role is a crucial one in the implementation of new projects as well as in maintaining the expected level on the services already in place. As the IT Security Team Manager you will be charged with managing the teams already in place, while also setting up the structure and processes required for the teams to grow accordingly.

We look for someone ready to take on this challenge with a teamwork approach and a mindset focused on sharing and boosting collective efficiency. A curious and autonomous leader, attentive to the technical aspects of new technologies, ready to both share and integrate knowledge and experiences.

A manager with strong communication skills, who will serve as a local ambassador for the IT security strategy and guidelines not only of Natixis in Portugal and BPCE-IT, but of the entire BPCE group.

 Main Tasks & Responsibilities:

• A Team manager is member of Porto Leader community and represent a strategical position within the organization, associated with corresponding advantages;
   
• Assess and develop employee skills:
  • Define career plans, in cooperation with the local HR team;
  • Define objectives and monitor their achievements;
  • Plan, build and follow-up on training needs and plans, aligned with HR;
  • Ensure each member of the IT Security teams is prepared to drive change by providing personalized follow-up and training;
     
• Be a force for change within IT Security direction:
  • Aligning activities with the global business strategy;
  • Anticipating, defining and implementing change to the organization of the activities within BPCE-IT;
  • Create optimal conditions for change by ensuring employee engagement through communication, training and follow-up;
     
• Design and implement the structure and processes required to make the IT Security teams quickly increase their headcount while still maintaining excellent quality of service in all different activities;
  • Build and implement the sourcing strategy for IT Security teams in Porto;
  • Facilitate the sourcing process between suppliers (external and internal) and managers, both in Porto and Paris;
  • Ensure the quality of the sourcing process and the project’s schedule while respecting the deadlines and planned workload;
  • Support the outset of new local teams by clearly defining rules and responsibilities between France and Porto;
  • Ensure excellent onboarding of all newcomers to IT Security teams;
  • Ensure excellent quality of service for the activities of each team;
  • Work in a fast-paced environment, managing project and operational difficulties while still meeting time-sensitive deadlines;
     
• Take ownership of and ensure excellent communication between management, the teams and transversally to the entire organization;
  • Ensure a sense of belonging within the teams to BPCE-IT and IT Security direction;
  • Manage and implement the communication strategy for the IT Security activities in Porto;
  • Bring the challenges of the projects to the field by ensuring regular communication with the Paris teams;
  • Promote exchanges and synergies between the teams and other entities within Natixis in Portugal and throughout the group;
  • Be an active ambassador of Groupe BPCE and Natixis in Portugal values and culture, promoting our values;
  • Be an active ambassador of the security strategy of BPCE-IT and the BPCE group.

Qualifications

Main Requirements:

• Higher education in Computer Science, Engineering or similar;
• Solid experience in People and Team management;
• Good understanding of IT Infrastructure and IT Security concepts;
• Experience managing strategical, transversal and complex IT projects;
• Experience working with multicultural teams, in international environments;
• Experience of working in different fields of IT Security (SOC, network security, identity and access management) will be highly valued;
• Fluent level of English (mandatory);
• A solid knowledge of French is highly valued;
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written;
• Ability to effectively manage and communicate with different stakeholders;
• Assertive personality with good negotiation skills;
• Strong sense of commitment and ability to pass on the culture and values of the company.

Additional Information

#MuchMoreThanJustAJob

Early morning. Campo 24 de Agosto. In 4 minutes, you are clocking in at the office. After grabbing a cup of coffee and fresh fruit, pick up your laptop and choose your spot for the day. It's going to be a busy one: French class before lunch and, just after, quick medical appointment at Natixis doctor's office.

Lunch break. Outside in the big terrace (look at your crops at the Urban Garden; ready to harvest!) or, if you feel like stretching your legs, walk downtown to grab lunch.

Back inside. Quick sprint review (working together anywhere means virtual happy birthday to that colleague in Paris that just turned 35). The afternoon went flying (tasks, reports, calls, some jokes with your teammates). End it on a high note: just one PlayStation game or the final match for that ping-pong tournament.

Tomorrow, you complete that certified technical training and the day after, you will work from home, taking advantage to finally do that online course on Udemy. Once you are done with your tasks for the day, you can visit the office for a board games session or show up at the rehearsal of one of Natixis bands. If that is too steady for you, meet your colleagues to surf some waves or join them in a football match.