Head of Operational Excellence IS team

About US (GEMS):

ENGIE Global Energy Management & Sales (GEMS) provides energy supply solutions and risk management services to support its clients through their decarbonization journey, while optimizing ENGIE’s assets and contributing to value creation.

ENGIE is a global reference in low-carbon energy and services with a leading energy management business, piloted by its entity "Global Energy Management & Sales" who built its savoir-faire managing the Group’s large and diverse asset portfolio over 20+ years.

3,600 employees around the world develop our solutions, through +20 international business platforms. We cover the full energy mix: renewable and thermal power, natural gas & LNG, biomass, environmental products. Our experts provide tailor made solutions based on a wide range of savoir-faire in energy management with a strong focus on decarbonation and decentralization.

Our 190,000 clients span the entire value chain: producers, asset developers, financial players, utilities, distributors and industrials. Our global reach and strong local presence enable us to offer these diverse clients tailor-made services and respond to rapid changes in mature or emerging markets alike.

Our 4 expertises:

• Asset management

• Energy transition services

• Energy supply & global commodities

• Risk management & market access

At GEMS we encourage breakthrough results, team spirit, curiosity and innovation while preserving the right work/life balance for you.

More info on GEMS Hub (https://gems.engie.com) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/engie-global-energy-management-solutions).

Context:

The Operational Excellence IS team is the technological partner of Operational Excellence Expertise Center (EC) who is responsible for ensuring continuous and sustainable improvements of GEMS processes and the Front to Back chain. The EC Operational Excellence also provides a framework for accelerating new business and data initiatives and is organized in 4 teams:

• DRIVE (Development Resilience Innovation Validation Execution)
• Data Office
• Operational Risk
• Internal & Permanent Control

to act the gatekeeper of GEMS operational standards.

Role:

The position reports to the head of Digital & Data Accelerator and will cover the following activities:

• Build and maintain Mercure data repository (fundamental data, weather, prices, fixings, …). A full revamping will start in 2024 to put in place a decentralized architecture (data mesh)
• Ensure vendor relationships for packages that are integrated in our ecosystem (Operational Risks and Internal control scopes)
• Ensure the follow-up of the development and setup activities that are performed within Deal Management Team for DRIVE team

Main activities and responsibilities:

• Coordinate and manage of the relationship with business teams
• Provide effective and timely communication/follow-up with stakeholders.
• Organize team activities (allocations, planning)
• Handle budget and ensure cost effectiveness
• Ensure the effectiveness and performance of provided services and applications
• Ensure the highest level of stakeholders’ satisfaction while complying with security rules and standards and audit recommendations.
• Maintain high standard of software quality, development, design and testing principles within the team
• Support and promote the continuous improvement of the services and applications

The development approach is agile and is focused on the value brought to business, in short, medium and long term.

Hard skills:

• Must have:
  • Previous experience of IS with internal development and vendor relationships
  • Application lifecycle management
  • Technical and applicative architecture

• Good to have:
  • Knowledge of modern data architectures and technologies

Soft skills:

Behavioral Skills

- Planning

- Working together

- Proactive

- Quality and result oriented

- Communication skills with IT and business users

People Management Skills

- Forming a team

- Leadership

- Developing others

- Delegating

Education and professional background:

• Master’s degree in engineering with a proven specialty in IT or equivalent.
• Minimum 8 years of information technology, systems, and application development experience.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a leadership role.
• Modern cloud technologies used for managing data (AWS is highly preferred).

Languages:

• English
• French

Travels:

• The position is based in Paris
• Punctual trips to Brussels

If you meet these requirements, then you are the talent we are looking for. Do not waste time! 

Apply by attaching your updated CV, regardless your gender.

ENGIE Global Energy Management & Sales is committed to create a gender-neutral environment that unlocks the potential of everyone and provides equal employment opportunities for all individuals. 

All our positions are open to people with disabilities, please let your recruiter know if you need reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the recruitment process, they will be happy to assist you. 

About ENGIE:

Our group is a global reference in low-carbon energy and services. Our purpose (“raison d’être”) is to act to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral world, through reduced energy consumption and more environmentally-friendly solutions, reconciling economic performance with a positive impact on people and the planet. We rely on our key businesses (gas, power, renewable energy, services) to offer competitive solutions to our customers. With our 96,000 employees, our customers, partners and stakeholders, we are a community of Imaginative Builders, committed every day to more harmonious progress.