Head Program - IT

Role overview

Head Program - IT at Societe Generale

Responsibilities

• Drive engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement across the tribe.
• Drive modernization initiatives, API-first architecture, and cloud-native solutions.
• Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering teams.
• Manage vendor and partner relationships.
• Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and organizational policies.
• Drive risk management, audit readiness, and production stability initiatives.
• Drive productivity, workforce planning, capacity forecasting, and operational efficiency.
• Build a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Manage budgeting, workforce, innovation and organizational transformation.
• Manage large delivery teams and stakeholders across the globe based on the OKRs of the business lines.
• Contribute to innovation forums of the organization and bring-in industry standards.
• Ensure viable succession pipeline. "We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Employment details

• You should know that our employees can dedicate several days per year to solidarity actions during their working hours, including sponsoring people struggling with their orientation or professional integration, participating in the financial education of young apprentices, and sharing their skills with charities.
• Location: Bangalore [India]

Additional role details

• Proven abstract thinking, motivational skills and passion for transformation
• Ability to ideate, strategize and transform at the organizational level
• Demonstrate strong networking and solutioning skills to work with business counterparts globally
• Expertise in understanding financial models and budgets
• Excellent execution rigor and ability to handle ambiguity and deliver towards the organization's vision
• Coach to enhance and strengthen team’s skills Delivery & Execution Excellence
• Define and execute the technology roadmap aligned with business goals.
• Align technology initiatives with organizational digital transformation objectives.
• Establish OKRs, KPIs, and performance metrics for tribe success.
• Provide technical leadership across applications developed using Java.
• Monitor delivery risks, capacity planning, and people utilization.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Identify skill gaps and develop capability-building initiatives.
• Partner with business leaders, product teams, and senior management to prioritize initiatives.
• Present technology strategies, delivery updates, and performance metrics to CDS head.
• Stakeholder management with local business, RO and Paris.
• Financial & Organizational Management Own budgeting, financial planning, vendor management, and resource optimization.
• Establish succession planning and leadership development programs.
• Innovation & Industry Leadership Represent the organization in innovation forums, architecture councils, and strategic leadership discussions.
• Bring industry best practices, emerging technologies, and modern engineering standards into the organization.
• Contribute to organizational thought leadership and business line value propositions.
• Experience 18+ years leading large-scale technical teams Proven track record managing global delivery teams of 80+ professionals.
• Experience managing multi-million-dollar portfolios, budgets, and strategic transformation programs.
• Demonstrated success in modernization, cloud migration, and platform engineering initiatives.
• Strong executive stakeholder management experience across global business functions.
• Define and implement strategic (long term) framework of the team to be in-line with organization objectives and vision.
• Productize service offering and negotiate with stakeholders for transition of projects/processes.
• All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status”. “ Commitment and adherence to ESG practices of the organisation and endeavour to reduce the carbon footprint and sustainable practices ” At Société Générale, we are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious.
• Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future.
• Creating, daring, innovating, and taking action are part of our DNA.
• If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful on a daily basis and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!
• Still hesitating?
• There are many ways to get involved.
• We are committed to support accelerating our Group’s ESG strategy by implementing ESG principles in all our activities and policies.
• They are translated in our business activity (ESG assessment, reporting, project management or IT activities), our work environment and in our responsible practices for environment protection.