Job Description

General information

Entity

About Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (Crédit Agricole CIB)

Crédit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment bank of the Crédit Agricole group, the 10th largest banking group in the world *.

We support major companies and financial institutions in their development and the financing of their projects.

As pioneers in responsible finance, social and environmental commitments are at the heart of our activities.

Joining our teams means working in a multicultural environment, both dynamic and stimulating, where you will contribute to developing a sustainable economy.

We support employees throughout their journey: you will develop your skills and access various mobility opportunities among the diversity of our businesses in more than 30 international locations.

Our culture is built on collaboration, innovation and openness, where everyone is valued and empowered.

By working every day in the interest of society, Crédit Agricole CIB aligns with the Group values committed to diversity and inclusion and placing people at the heart of all its transformations.

All our jobs are open to people with disabilities. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.

Ready to take part in our mission ?

*By balance sheet size - The Banker, Juillet 2025

Reference

2026-110475

Update date

23/03/2026

Business type

Types of Jobs - IT, Digital et Data

Job title

Capital Markets IT/Electronic Trading Americas Lead

Contract type

Permanent Contract

Job summary

Capital Market IT (CMI) oversees the information systems for Global Markets Division (and affiliated partner support functions) covering all capital markets domains (from pre-trade to post trade through risk management and regulatory reporting). CMI covers all IT activities, ensuring applicative support to end-users, maintenance and evolution of the information system including ambitious and innovative transformation programs to accompany business growth. Capital Market IT teams are distributed across the world, currently in Paris, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and New York.

Capital Market IT is looking to reinforce its presence in the Americas, consolidating and reinforcing its Run and Build teams with ambitions to support Americas business growth.

As such, CACIB Americas IT is hiring its Head of Americas Capital Market IT E-Trading in New York who will be responsible for putting in place a resilient and sustainable setup to support E trading information system for the Americas with CMI global support.

Local reporting to: Head of Americas GIT/CMI
Functional reporting to: Global Head of Capital Market IT / Linear

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Capital Market IT Americas electronic trading teams ensuring local projects and productions matters are prioritized and addressed with a good quality and in timely manner
• Put in place and maintain Run and Build backlog
• Build partnership with NY Capital market team
• Contribute to build e-trading applications for NY trading desks
• Build and adjust sourcing capacity given business and IT requirements and constraints
• Contribute to proper onboarding of the staff
• Foster an environment of trust and empowerment
• Focus teams on delivery based on business value and core IT capacities
• Make the bridge between business need and IT solutions
• Identify opportunities for simplification of the user environment
• Promote strong proximity with the business
  Promote a culture of continuous improvement
• Be a gatekeeper of IT Electronic Trading strategy in line with CMI Master Plan
• Be a communication vector of this strategy to the business and locally to GIT and make sure alignment between projects and target plan
• Guarantee a high-quality production service and a proactive follow-up of incidents and remediation actions
• Ensure best practices for production follow-up, monitoring and tracking are respected as well as a very proactive follow-up of incidents (applicative or infrastructure) and related action plans
• Ensure integrity of all systems - including out of hours support (24/7), where required.
• Ensure an accurate, exhaustive and transparent reporting
• Ensure management of obsolescence and vulnerabilities on the scope of applications covered locally
• Ensure coordination with external parties (Vendors, US financial market infrastructure ...)
• Ensure local and global enhancements and projects deliveries
• Maintain and improve service quality.
• Coordinate with teams onshore/nearshore, third parties

Supplementary Information

Salary Range: $240k - $260k

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Position location

Geographical area

America, United States Of America

City

NEW YORK

Candidate criteria

Academic qualification / Speciality

Advanced degree in E-Trading, Data Science, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.

Experience

Required

• 12 – 15 years of relevant experience
• Proven successful experience in Electronic Trading IT environment as a leader in both Run and Build setup
• Proven successful experience building partnership with Capital Market business users
• Knowledge of Capital Market activities (Negotiation, pricing, booking)

Desired

• Experience in an Onshore/Offshore model
• Experience in an international environment

Required skills

Required

• Strong IT skills with appetite for functional subjects and business processes
• Good understanding of Information systems underlined IT infrastructure

Soft skills:

o Leadership

o Team player

o Strong written and verbal communication

o Good organizational skills with attention to details

o Ability to analyze and summarize information

o Ability to work autonomously

o Comfortable in working with multiple teams across locations with excellent inter-personal skills.

o Organization, delegation, ability to provide technical guidance.

o Ability to take efficient decisions / Result-oriented mindset

Desired

• Business continuity /Disaster Recovery management
• Vulnerabilities management and remediations

French language skills a plus

Technical skills required

• Project management
• ITIL Foundation