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Head of Lending Services (all humans)
Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
Working-Hours: fulltime_permanent
Division: Erste Digital
Company: Erste Digital
At Erste Digital, you will be driving the digital future of banking, enabling better financial health for millions. As part of Erste Group, the largest banking group in CEE, our IT experts are the digital powerhouse behind innovation. #believeinyourself
The Lending Tribe inside Erste Digital is responsible for all specific lending systems for retail, corporate, leasing, factoring, and Bausparkasse businesses. This role will be driving the digital transformation of lending, enabling financial growth for millions.
We are seeking an IT leader to co-lead this tribe in close partnership with the Business Division "Product Management Lending", Bausparkasse, Leasing, Intermarket Bank and the Backoffice Lending units.
As the Head of Lending (IT), you will lead with a customer and reliability focus, enabling your teams to deliver value while maintaining the highest standards. You will cultivate technical excellence and teaching, empowering sustainable growth through continuous learning. By bridging business and technology, you will drive quality through culture, building for the long-term with a focus on impact over mere activity.
What to do:
- Co-Lead the Lending Tribe with the Head of Product Management Lending of Erste Bank and partner with key stakeholders in Bausparkasse, Leasing, Intermarket Bank and Backoffice Lending to translate business strategy into technology solutions
- Strategic leadership of the Lending Tribe's IT roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives for growth, stability and innovation across Erste Holding, Erste Bank, Bausparkasse, Leasing, and Intermarket Bank
- Oversee the development, operation, and continuous improvement of the Austrian lending technology landscape
- Enable digitalization of lending products to significantly increase digital sales across all lending entities
- Drive end-to-end optimization of lending processes, with focus on straight through processing (STP), in close collaboration with the Retail & Corporate Journeys Tribe
- Lead and collaborate with software development teams and external vendors to deliver reliable, resilient IT systems
- Foster an engineering culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement and agile delivery
- Actively develop and lead high-performing, cross-functional teams
You check these boxes:
- Proven engineering leader with expertise in modern software development practices
- Deep understanding of IT architecture, integration, and operations for banking/lending
- Strategic thinker who can define and implement a technology roadmap aligned with diverse business goals across Erste Bank and subsidiaries
- Excellence in building and maintaining relationships with business leaders, fostering joint management of the Tribe consisting of mixed teams
- Ability to lead and motivate integrated teams spanning business, IT, and external partners in a complex multi-entity environment
- Strong communicator who can translate between business and technical audiences
- Track record of delivering complex IT projects in highly regulated environments
- Familiarity with lending products, processes and systems across retail, corporate, leasing, factoring, and Bausparkasse is a strong plus
- Passion for building stable, secure and scalable platforms
Why you will like us:
- Possibility to benefit and learn from our international, talented and passionate community at Erste
- Interest groups and clubs: Take part in discussions and get involved in projects. Numerous interest groups invite you to engage with a topic
- Health Centre - The Erste Campus operates a fully equipped health center that offers all employees a high standard of medical services during working hours.
- Employee benefits - Benefit from special conditions for financial services and insurances, supermarkets, clothing stores and many more.
- Employee Referral Program - Become a talent scout for career opportunities in IT. We are rewarding every successful referral for Erste Digital
- A competitive and performance-related salary dependent on your professional and personal qualifications is granted - the minimum wage for this position in accordance with the respective collective agreement is EUR 82.600,-- gross per year. But this is just a formality, we are more than happy to discuss your actual expectations.
The way we are:
Erste Group considers the diversity of its employees as key to innovation and success. As employer we are proud to offer everyone equal chances, irrespective of age, skin colour, religious belief, gender, sexual orientation or origin.