Head of Lending Technology & Applications Division

Lead the technology capabilities supporting the EIB Group’s lending activities by overseeing applications and platforms enabling financing operations. Drive the evolution and modernization of the lending technology landscape, ensuring secure, resilient, and innovative digital solutions that support business transformation and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Shape the EIBG’s technology strategy for lending and own the application and technology roadmap, partnering with business stakeholders to shape demand, prioritise investments and ensure alignment between business priorities, enterprise architecture and technology choices.
• Provide strong technical leadership across a varied application landscape combining bespoke Java/JavaScript applications, Microsoft technologies and Power Platform, packaged/COTS solutions and SaaS/cloud services.
• Apply sound technical judgement to assess and challenge major architecture, engineering and technology choices and contribute to key decisions on integration, data, security, resilience, cloud adoption and other non-functional requirements.
• Lead the transformation, modernisation and sustainable evolution of the lending application landscape, driving business value through new capabilities, automation, data and analytics, simplification and application rationalisation, while actively addressing technical debt and obsolescence.
• Lead and develop the Division’s management team, setting clear accountabilities and empowering managers to lead high-performing, diverse and multidisciplinary teams spanning business analysis, application engineering, software delivery and application support.
• Strengthen managerial and technical leadership, critical capabilities, talent and succession to meet evolving business and technology needs.
• Ensure the secure, resilient and reliable operation of business-critical lending applications, providing senior leadership on major technology and production issues and ensuring effective management of service reliability, security, continuity and recovery.
• Be accountable for the Division’s delivery portfolio, resources and budget, ensuring effective execution of strategic, business and regulatory initiatives while balancing investment in new capabilities with production stability, security and the sustainable evolution of the application landscape.
• Govern technology vendors and strategic partners within the Division’s scope, driving value, quality and compliance with outsourcing, DORA and other applicable requirements, while ensuring that the EIBG retains appropriate internal architecture, technology, service and lifecycle ownership.

Requirements

• University degree (minimum equivalent to a Bachelor's degree), preferably in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline.
• At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience leading the delivery, operation and evolution of business-critical application portfolios, including significant leadership responsibility extending beyond software development and project delivery to production operations and long-term application lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated experience leading multiple technology teams and capabilities through an established leadership structure, ideally in multicultural or international environments, with proven ability to develop leaders, build organisational capabilities and lead significant change.
• Proven experience partnering with business stakeholders to shape demand, define sustainable technology roadmaps, prioritise investments and balance business value with technical sustainability.
• Strong technical knowledge and demonstrated technical credibility across enterprise application technologies and architectures, with the ability to engage effectively with architects, engineers and technical leaders, challenge major architecture and technology choices, and make sound decisions.
• Experience should ideally span bespoke Java/JavaScript applications, Microsoft technologies and Power Platform, packaged/COTS solutions and SaaS/cloud services.
• Demonstrated experience leading applications across the full lifecycle, from architecture, engineering and integration through production to modernisation and retirement, including security, resilience, service reliability, technical debt and obsolescence.
• Business expertise preferably in banking or another complex regulated financial-services environment is considered a strong advantage.
• Excellent knowledge of English. Knowledge of other EU languages would be an advantage.
• Proficiency in English and French is a pre-requisite for career development, with level 5 of the Inter Institutional language courses (B1.2 CEFRL) required for promotion eligibility.

Skills

• Application Portfolio Management
• Software Development Leadership
• Production Operations Management
• Application Lifecycle Management
• Technology Team Leadership
• Organizational capacity building
• Change Management
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Technology Roadmap Development
• Investment Prioritization
• Enterprise Application Architecture
• Technical Decision Making
• Java Development
• JavaScript Development
• Microsoft Technologies
• Power Platform
• Packaged Solutions Management
• SaaS Cloud Services
• Application Security Management
• Service Reliability Engineering
• Technical Debt Management
• Financial Services IT
• English Language Proficiency
• Language Proficiency in French

Languages

English, French