IT Manager (Head of IT & Data Management)

Mizuho Amsterdam

What is required?

University degree
Experience in working for (large) multinational corporate
Excellent command of the English language, both verbally and in writing

What will you get?

€125k - €135k gross p/y (depending on knowledge and experience) including 13 th month and holiday allowance
Annual bonus
37,5 hour working week (flexible working hours)
30 vacation days (based on fulltime employment)
Option to buy or sell leave annually
Technical and professional training possibilities
100% company paid defined contribution pension plan
Unique opportunity of working in a dynamic international and multicultural environment and being part of one of the largest financial institutions of the world

What will you do?

20% Coaching team members
20% Steering project/feature deliverables
20% Managing IT Governance and Risk
20% Strategic and tactical planning
20% Prioritizing team issues

This vacancy has been created based on interviews with employees to help you get a realistic preview of the job.

Vacancy

As IT Manager (Head of IT & Data Management) at Mizuho, you are responsible for overseeing all activities within the IT and Data Management domain. You will lead a team of approximately fifteen individuals, including three team leads for Infrastructure, Development, and Data Management. Your role includes ensuring that the department has a strong understanding of cybersecurity, IT governance, and controls, as well as managing the technical aspects and general management of the three areas.

You will also be responsible for steering project and feature deliverables, tracking the progress of larger projects within the IT domain, and ensuring that they are delivered on time, within budget, and according to requirements. Additionally, you will solidify the position of formal IT Governance and Risk Management in the first line, ensuring full compliance with EBA and DNB guidelines.

You are proactive in identifying areas of improvement and keeping up to date with the latest industry trends and best practices. With a strong understanding of IT Governance and Risk Management, you are able to manage a team in a directive manner. Finally, you are responsible to formulate and communicate business cases, as well as build and maintain relationships with stakeholders.

As IT Manager (Head of IT &amp; Data Management) at Mizuho, you are responsible for overseeing all activities within the IT and Data Management domain. You will lead a team of approximately fifteen individuals, including three team leads for Infrastructure, Development, and Data Management. Your role includes ensuring that the department has a strong understanding of cybersecurity, IT governance, and controls, as well as managing the technical aspects and general management of the three areas. 
You will also be responsible for steering project and feature deliverables, tracking the progress of larger projects within the IT domain, and ensuring that they are delivered on time, within budget, and according to requirements. Additionally, you will solidify the position of formal IT Governance and Risk Management in the first line, ensuring full compliance with EBA and DNB guidelines.
You are proactive in identifying areas of improvement and keeping up to date with the latest industry trends and best practices. With a strong understanding of IT Governance and Risk Management, you are able to manage a team in a directive manner. Finally, you are responsible to formulate and communicate business cases, as well as build and maintain relationships with stakeholders.

If you enjoy working in a fast-changing environment and find it challenging to find your focus in a very broad range of tasks, then this is a job for you.

Working week

IT Manager (Head of IT & Data Management)

On an enjoyable workday, you help a team member with a solution, have enough time to work with focus, and you see the direct results of your work.

On a less enjoyable workday, there are many technical issues that need to be resolved, which prevents you from devoting enough attention to the tasks that were originally planned.

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- Lunch break
- Consultation with external stakeholder
- Administration
- Stand-up
- Coaching team members
- One-on-one with team member
- Adjusting tactical planning
- Adjusting technical planning
- Lunch break
- Coaching team members
- Managing, collecting and formalizing the data flows
- Reading and replying to emails
- Reading and replying to emails
- One-on-one with team member
- Meeting with Teamlead Data Management
- Prioritizing team issues
- Lunch break
- Contact with stakeholder
- One-on-one with team member
- Consultation with internal stakeholder
- Stand-up
- Adjusting strategic planning
- One-on-one with team member
- Reading and replying to emails
- Administration
- Lunch break
- Administration
- One-on-one with team member
- Project meeting
- Managing IT Governance and Risk
- Assisting a collegue with a technical issue
- Reading and replying to emails
- Lunch break
- Reading and replying to emails
- Stand-up
- One-on-one with team member
- Office drinks
- Monthly Manager meeting
- One-on-one with team member
- Coaching team members

One of the applications used within the bank is experiencing a technical malfunction. What do you do?

You would first gather all necessary information from both the business and IT to understand the problem's impact. Then you ensure all stakeholders have the same understanding. Once you understand the problem, you would work with your team to propose a solution that fits within Mizuho's greater scheme. If an application malfunctions, you'd analyze the problem's cause and communicate the impact to stakeholders, developing a resolution plan. As a Manager, you'd steer your team when there's a sense of urgency and manage the communication to ensure an efficient resolution.

Growth

The goal of Mizuho Bank Europe is that employees have the right skills, knowledge and attitude to drive results they need to achieve. Their key principle is that trainings should be accessible to anyone and contribute to their strategic business goals. Because of that, employees are allowed to follow a study or training in a relevant field. Additionally, Mizuho promotes internal and international vacancy's so employees can move from one department to another.

IT Manager (Head of IT & Data Management)

Working at Mizuho

Mizuho Bank Europe N.V. (MBE) is a fully-licensed bank incorporated in the Netherlands and supervised by De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) and the Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM). With over 45 years of experience providing financial services to Japanese and non-Japanese customers in the region, Mizuho has developed a solid client base and expertise throughout the European single market - with a focus on the markets in the Benelux, Iberia, and Central & Eastern Europe - using their EU Banking Passport.

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