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About Nord Pool:

At Nord Pool we are building the next generation of systems to trade power across Europe. We want to delight our customers with fantastic user experiences, services, and a platform that exceeds their expectations.

We deliver societally critical systems that play an essential role in facilitating fair and efficient power markets across Europe. Through these systems and their offering, Nord Pool also plays a key role of enabling the acceleration towards green and clean energy production and consumption.

You will get to leave your mark and make a real difference on our products and way of working. You will be part of a motivated, tech-savvy, and friendly team. We believe in giving you the freedom to deliver your best work: that is why we are flexible around hours, tools and working methods. With us, you can build your career at an international, forward-thinking, and profitable company. We will give you opportunities to learn and create something new.

Nord Pool is a part of the Euronext group, a pan-European exchange group offering a diverse range of products and services and combining transparent and efficient equity, fixed income securities and derivatives markets in Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Lisbon, Milan, Oslo, and Paris.

Job description:

We are seeking a new Head of Security that will be responsible for advancing the cyber security of Nord Pool’s technology infrastructure. You will be a strategic leader to enhance all aspects of the cyber security program, with an emphasis on the controls protecting our network, server, endpoint, and remote workforce, and lead enterprise cyber risk discussion with business and technology leaders, as well as working hands-on in the security tools.

The role has dual reporting lines, within Nord Pool the Head of Security reports to the Chief Information Officer (CIO), while in the Euronext Group the role reports to the group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• The Head of Security is responsible for maintaining a company-wide vision, strategy, and architecture for information security. This includes establishing, maintaining, and monitoring the policies and procedures that promote the secure and uninterrupted operation of all information technology systems, ensuring that the company is in compliance with all applicable laws, directives, and policies.
• Design and implement the security architecture solutions using the security tools.
• Conduct security assessments, threat modeling, and risk analysis to identify potential security vulnerabilities and prioritize appropriate mitigations and investments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate security controls into the organization's infrastructure and applications.
• Participate in incident response activities, including investigation, containment, and remediation of security incidents.
• Develop and deliver executive level presentations to management, and applicable regulatory and rating agencies.
• Stay abreast of the latest security trends, threats, and technologies to continuously enhance the organization's security posture.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

• Advanced to expert level knowledge and understanding of information security architecture, information security technologies, systems design, integration of systems, and networking, with Hands-on experience implementing and configuring the security tools.
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles and best practices.
• Strong process improvement orientation.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders including Customer Service/Experience, Operations, Finance, and HR.
• Seasoned judgment for working independently and taking initiative.

Key accountabilities

• Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.
• Identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes.
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.
• Mine and analyze data from company databases and date sets to drive optimization and improvement of product developments.
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets.
• Undertake preprocessing of structured and unstructured data.
• Collaborate with engineering and product development teams to implement models and monitor outcomes.
• Participate in the design of the fee schemes for cash equity and listed derivatives clearing leveraging on data analysis.

The key accountabilities only describe the main activities and is not exhaustive. It evolves depending on the expertise level and ongoing projects.

Your profile

• Experience using statistical computer languages (R, Python, SLQ, etc.) to manipulate data, draw insights from large data sets, querying databases and creating data architectures.
• Experience creating and using advanced algorithms and statistics.
• Strong problem-solving & math skills with an emphasis on practical implementations. Graduated from an engineering school or a university with mathematics specialties.
• Deep understanding of market finance risks.
• A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques.
• Interest in automated testing and continuous integration.
• Comfortable in fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Key accountabilities
• Ensure the delivery of market data services, which includes data feeds, distribution agreements as well as market data services*
• Work closely with the IT and Operations staff to ensure accuracy, timeliness and completeness of transaction, position and market data*
• Prospective and retrospective monitoring of compliance with rules and with national and european law and applicable regulation
• Monitor, alert, prevent and detect market manipulations accordingly to the compliance policy the defined process
• Ensure an efficient incident management by tracking resolution of bugs linked to incidents, working postmortem, handling market status communication**
• Manage relationships with vendors (e.g., Bloomberg, FactSet, Thomson Reuters ,etc.) and monitor member account details, maintaining detailed descriptive data and price information / attributes about assets, setting up securities, and maintaining contracts, agreements and relationships with third party vendors that provide pricing feeds*
• Prospective and retrospective monitoring of compliance with rules and with national and European law and applicable regulation (detect exceptions, unfair or unusual trading patterns, manage alerts and enforce the rules, investigation and reporting of suspicious market abuse and AML situations to the competent authorities)
• Liaison with Authorities with reference to STOR, AML and special market situations
• Real time and ex post monitoring of liquidity provision obligations
• Development and maintenance of algorithms and tools for pattern detection and market management - including BOT and other computer aided market control actions
• Responsible for the entire on boarding procedure of new members ***
• Ensure the running of core business processes on a day-to-day basis by proactively identifying issues, executing resolutions, and implementing process improvements related to post trade processes ***

*not applicable for Borsa Italiana Market Surveillance Team and MTS
** not applicable for MTS
*** only for MTS

*not applicable for Borsa Italiana Market Surveillance Team

Your profile
• Advanced knowledge of trading venues rule books, trading system parameters and technical mechanisms
• Detailed knowledge of applicable European regulation (MiFIR, MiFID, MAR) and respective application to trading venues
• Significant previous experience in internal audit or other similar corporate functions (e.g., risk / compliance)
• Strong analytical and organization skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Proven team leadership and management skills

Key accountabilities

• Prospective and retrospective monitoring of compliance with rules and with national and european law and applicable regulation
• Monitor, alert, prevent and detect market manipulations accordingly to the compliance policy the defined process
• Ensure an efficient incident management by tracking resolution of bugs linked to incidents, working postmortem, handling market status communication**

• Prospective and retrospective monitoring of compliance with rules and with national and European law and applicable regulation (detect exceptions, unfair or unusual trading patterns, manage alerts and enforce the rules, investigation and reporting of suspicious market abuse and AML situations to the competent authorities)
• Liaison with Authorities with reference to STOR, AML and special market situations
• Real time and ex post monitoring of liquidity provision obligations
• Development and maintenance of algorithms and tools for pattern detection and market management - including BOT and other computer aided market control actions
• Responsible for the entire on boarding procedure of new members ***
• Ensure the running of core business processes on a day-to-day basis by proactively identifying issues, executing resolutions, and implementing process improvements related to post trade processes ***

*not applicable for Borsa Italiana Market Surveillance Team and MTS
** not applicable for MTS
*** only for MTS

*not applicable for Borsa Italiana Market Surveillance Team

Your profile
• Advanced knowledge of trading venues rule books, trading system parameters and technical mechanisms
• Detailed knowledge of applicable European regulation (MiFIR, MiFID, MAR) and respective application to trading venues
• Significant previous experience in internal audit or other similar corporate functions (e.g., risk / compliance)
• Strong analytical and organization skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Proven team leadership and management skills

The Euronext Corporate Services team is composed of over 180 professionals that combine a strong local footprint across Europe with a deep understanding of global capital markets. They help organisations, both listed and non-listed, private and public, make the most effective use of capital markets and run more efficiently.

Euronext Corporate Services already serves more than 4,500+ clients including over 1000 listed companies, private companies, advisors and public organisations. Our clients are located across all Euronext markets (Belgium, France, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway Portugal,) but also beyond (e.g. UK, Nordics, Spain, Germany).

This unique and comprehensive value proposition is articulated around four main pillars:

• Governance : Our board portal solution “iBabs” help organizations to secure, organize and run board meetings more efficiently (save time preparing agendas and board packs, collaborate easily with annotations, voting, meeting summaries).
• Communication : We are the market leader in webinars and webcasts services for financial results, internal communication, marketing and external communication with our solution Company Webcast. We help our clients to increase their visibility, engagement and international coverage. We also provide flexible and customized market data components for Investor Relations websites of listed companies.
• Compliance : Our InsiderLog products offer a solution to automate the management of inside information and insider lists for both issuers and their professional advisors. Our tool aims to save time and ensure compliance with the European Market Abuse Regulation (MAR).
• Investor Relations : Our Advisory team provides high-touch advisory, market intelligence and decision making analytics for listed companies willing to be more active on capital markets. Our IR.Manager tool provides a complete and intuitive IR management and targeting platform for corporate IR teams to professionalize the workflow and engagement.

Euronext Corporate Services is a fully integrated division, including all the resources to pursue its business activities: Sales, Marketing, Client Excellence, Product, Technology.

Summary of the role

This position is for a team lead in the Compliance Services product line, responsible for software development activities of ComplyLog and all regulatory technology solutions for issuers and advisors. It involves a hands-on technical leadership role.

50% of the time will be dedicated to writing high-quality, production-ready code and the remaining 50% will be dedicated to managing the team: mentoring the team, addressing challenges, supporting career growth, and actively participating in coaching and training initiatives.

The key accountabilities for this role are

• Lead a tech team of 5+ developers in software development initiatives and translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
• Design robust, scalable, and cost-efficient end-to-end cloud solutions customized to meet product specifications.
• Elevate team performance through regular one-on-one meetings, constructive feedback, and fostering individual growth.
• Collaborate closely with the Product Owner to ensure alignment with business requirements and meet delivery timelines.
• Prioritize and facilitate the early resolution of client issues, ensuring adherence to agreed Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Seek opportunities for continuous improvement in processes, tools, and team dynamics.
• Conduct code reviews, contribute to critical feature designs, and ensure the overall quality of the team's deliverables.
• Flag technical debt and areas of improvements, making sure they are properly documented and taken into account when defining priorities.
• Implement a robust documentation system for knowledge base, onboarding, knowledge transfer, and communication in software development activities. · Willing to travel for collaboration with offshore teams.

Knowledge, skills and experience required:

• 5+ years hands-on experience in Java development with expertise in the latest editions, including Spring Boot.
• Experience in managing a team is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Gitflow, IaC, deployment patterns, and code quality tools.
• Extensive knowledge of AWS, Microservices architecture, design patterns, and proficiency in containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Solid grasp of security best practices related to APIs and data privacy.
• Proficiency in Agile/Scrum methodologies and a commitment to driving Agile practices within the team.
• Keen on staying current with industry trends, tech advancements, and best practices to enhance the team's workflow.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to addressing challenges.
• Experience in frontend technologies like React.js or Angular is a strong plus.
• Domain Knowledge of EU Market Abuse Regulation and EU Whistleblowing Directive is a Plus.

As Product owner, you will:

• Document, prioritize & share the requirements and rationale for the product
• Work closely with Project Manager cross business lines in larger projects & provide vision and guidance on project priorities to the whole project team
• Ensure Client onboarding and secure the Product launch from a business perspective
• Define product vision, long term road-map and growth opportunities through post-launch metrics and measurement of the product efficiency
• Organize User acceptance testing in accordance with the Project timeframe and escalate material risks to the delivery of User requirements
• Deliver from initiative through the planning phase, execution and transition to BAU. Lead the review and sign off from Sponsor/Key stakeholders on business deliverables
• Support business stakeholders in documenting the market changes for decision at programme level and / or for client engagement
• Document the client documentation, manage a common glossary across business line.
• Contribute to the data dictionary and business migration per market and cross business line
• Centralize, develop and communicate a clear product vision that aligns with the overall business strategy.
• Define and communicate the product roadmap to guide the development team.

Success factors for the role

• Ensure timely communication with all stakeholders regarding solutions and deliveries 
• Ensure that products comply with applicable legislation
• Navigate in a rapidly changing business landscape, staying ahead of industry trends and adapting strategies accordingly
• Deliver recommendations that increase revenue and/or reduce costs (top and bottom line)
• Demonstrate proactiveness and agility in responding to emerging opportunities and challenges within the business domain
• Develop and communicate a clear product vision that aligns with the overall business strategy.
• Act as the primary liaison between the development team and stakeholders.
• Gather and prioritize feedback from stakeholders to ensure the product meets their needs.
• Create and maintain the product backlog, a prioritized list of features and user stories.
• Prioritize backlog items based on business value, customer feedback, and strategic goals.
• Participate in the testing and acceptance of deliverables to ensure they meet the acceptance criteria
• Contribute to client documentation.
• Be flexible and adaptive to changing priorities and requirements.

Your profile
• Experience in product management, business development or sales support role.
• Expert knowledge of Euronext’s market model, rule book, service offer, the buy-side and sell-side landscape.
• Knowledge of the full product development lifecycle.
• Strong commercial acumen and strategic awareness.
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills, an ability to combine attention to detail with the wider strategic view.
• Rigorous project management skills: ability to leverage internal and external relationships, autonomy and determination to drive forward projects, provide clear business input into functional requirements.
• Collaborative, open, pragmatic, customer oriented and numbers-driven approach to work.
• International business experience – developing products in multiple geographic locations

Management of automatic and semi-automatic procedures to support Monitoring, Post-trading and Membership activities including:

• Monitoring of Market Making activities with the updating of lists of Stocks and Market Operators necessary for the timely calculation of their own performances;
• Write technical documentation;
• Maintenance of the WEB front-end pages of the Clients and of the internal Management for the consultation and printing of performance indicators both in terms of volume and price;
• Analysis of market data and generation of reports distributed periodically to Management, Sales and Customers.
• Setup and Maintenance of Provider's Market Control and Market Abuse software. Installation in production, test and maintenance environments;
• Setup and management of network devices such as PCs and WIFI accessing with Laptop / Tablet and Smartphone;
• Definition, control and updating of the lists of reference Securities (Benchmarks) used for the construction of market indicators shared with the various Markets and Management;
• Periodic control of the Lists of Market Participants against the Lists of Individuals or Companies suspected of Terrorism in the world (Legislative Decree 109/2007);
• Work with development teams and product managers to implement software solutions;

Role:

• Supporting in developing of the new software solutions;
• Setup of the new PCs, Laptops, Printers on network;
• Support in the execution of semi-automatic procedure;
• Support in eployment of software to upgrade existing procedures;
• Support to internal IT and internal Users on the network and office tools;
• Data checks and Analysis using office tools and external source provider;

Preferred skills:

• Microsoft Office basic and advanced knowledge (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access)
• Microsoft Office VBA basic knowledge
• Microsoft .NET programming basic knowledge (Visual Studio)
• Network basic and advanced knowledge (LAN, WAN, WIFI connection)
• Windows Server OS basic knowledge
• SQL and SQL Server basic knowledge
• Web server OS basic and advanced knowledge
• JavaScript basic knowledge
• PHP basic knowledge
• FTP-SFTP server basic and advanced knowledge
• Windows 10 client OS basic and advanced knowledge

Key Accountabilities
• Monitor the competitive landscape of services and products of the company, conducts screening analysis to identify business targets, and ensures the reporting of his department. He/she will ensure the preparation of reports on business performance.
• Support Sales teams with business intelligence productions identifying commercial opportunities.
• Help the Management to drive the business by creating and maintaining key performance indicators and management tools.
• Carry the team’s effort and contribute to strengthening the department, he/she helps bolster the team’s research capacities by contributing to know-how and content on specific sectors and/or topics related to the markets.

• Support Euronext Clearing’s stakeholders on competitive watch and market intelligence.
• Support the Head of Cash Equity & Listed Derivatives Clearing in providing the business reporting incl. 360 revenues reporting, 360 costs reporting and board meeting materials on competition and business development topics.

• Support the Head of Cash Equity & Listed Derivatives Clearing and the team in analyzing new business opportunities (incl. preparing business plan, market studies, …).
• Use market studies and engage with trading and clearing teams to provide analysis on the evolution of the business KPIs incl. evolution of duration of portfolios on Repo, Net Treasury Incomes evolutions, etc.

Your profile
• Solid understanding of- and interest in- capital markets.
• Willingness and ability to work independently on multiple projects.
• Command of Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong abilities to perform research and build relevant intelligence on a wide set of quantitative and qualitative topics.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, fluent in English.

Key Accountabilities

Na een gedegen inwerktraject ga je aan de slag voor onze klanten, deze bevinden zich met name binnen de gemeentelijke en overheidsmarkt. Tijdens de werkzaamheden ben je verantwoordelijk voor;

·         Een gedegen voorbereiding van de Webcast. Dit betekent controleren of de medewerkers van de klant de Webcast op de juiste manier hebben aangemaakt en of alle informatie beschikbaar is zodat jij zonder problemen je werkzaamheden kan verrichten. Daarnaast controleer je of er een internetverbinding actief is en of er beeld en geluid is. Mochten hier problemen aan het licht komen dan kan je terugvallen op onze support afdeling met technische experts;

·         Het bedienen van de Webcast. Hiermee bedoelen wij het starten, meeklikken van actieve agendapunten en sprekers, commentaar ingeven tijdens een schorsing en het stoppen van een Webcast/ Mochten er tijdens een live-uitzending problemen zijn dan stel je de medewerkers van de klant op hun gemak en neem je contact op met onze support afdeling om te zien of het probleem is op te lossen. Communiceer proactief met de medewerkers van de klant zodat zij weten wat de status is;

·         De sprekersindexatie. Deze dient binnen 48 uur opgeleverd te worden. Aan de hand van onze editor ben jij in staat om nauwkeurige sprekers-aanpassingen te doen in ons systeem zodat onze klanten tevreden zijn met het eindresultaat en probleemloos een vergadering kunnen terugkijken;

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

·         Kwaliteit en Inzet: Gedreven om een goed resultaat te bereiken, hoge eisen stellend aan zichzelf en de output;

·         Samenwerken: Zoekt samenwerking met anderen en levert een actieve bijdrage in het formuleren en behalen van gemeenschappelijke doelen;

·         Verantwoordelijkheid: Het onvoorwaardelijk nakomen van afspraken zowel intern als extern (follow-up), zich op een loyale en betrokken wijze inzetten voor de organisatie en onze klanten. Zich verantwoordelijk voelen voor eigen handelen en daarop aangesproken kunnen worden;

·         Servicegericht: Pittige en enthousiaste persoonlijkheid met een servicegerichte instelling;

·         Afspraken nakomen: Afspraak is afspraak voor onze klanten en voor ons in de organisatie.

·         Stressbestendig: In staat om te kunnen gaan met onverwachte situaties.

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