Market Infrastructure Project Management Specialist (T2S Evolution)

Market Infrastructure Project Management Specialist (T2S Evolution)

Fin. Markets & Market Infrastructure Ops

Market Infrastructure & Payments

11416

General Information

Type of contract: Fixed-term contract, which may be extended subject to individual performance and organisational needs.

Who can apply? EU nationals.

Salary: E/F (bracket 1 – step 1) full time monthly net salary: €4,869 plus benefits.

Working time: Full time.

Place of work: Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Your team:

You will be part of the Market Infrastructure Development Division in the Directorate General Market Infrastructure and Payments. Our Directorate General has around 255 staff working to ensure that Europe’s financial markets can rely on safe and efficient market infrastructure, while embracing innovation and contributing to further European integration. The Market Infrastructure Development Division has around 40 members of staff and is responsible for managing market infrastructure projects and overseeing the Eurosystem’s market infrastructures for securities settlement and payments.

In your role as Market Infrastructure Project Management Specialist, you will be part of a team of nine members of staff responsible for enhancing T2S services by applying change and release management processes, onboarding new entities to our TARGET Services and supporting new initiatives in this domain, such as the Eurosystem’s exploration of new technologies.

The ECB is an inclusive employer, and we strive to reflect the diversity of the population we serve. We encourage you to apply irrespective of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or other characteristics.

Your role:

As a Market Infrastructure Project Management Specialist you will primarily contribute to the activities of two T2S evolution workstreams:

• T2S recovery – an initiative that aims to enhance T2S resilience in the event of major losses of data;
• T+1 settlement cycles – an initiative that aims to identify and implement T2S enhancements to contribute to shortening the settlement cycle of securities transactions across the EU.

In this role, you will:

• Contribute to managing the T2S recovery-related documentation, such as user requirements and functional specifications;
• Manage the T2S recovery-related change requests throughout their lifecycle;
• Contribute to other T2S recovery-related tasks and deliverables;
• Prepare the regular and ad hoc meetings and teleconferences of the relevant substructures of T2S governance;
• Support the analysis and contribution to the T2S Operator;
• Document the relevant T2S change requests resulting from the analysis conducted by the relevant T2S or EU governance substructures.

For this role, we are seeking candidates who demonstrate the potential for growth, and we will support the selected candidate(s) in their development of the required skills.

The position offers you excellent opportunities to shape the future of the financial industry, contribute to providing state-of-the-art post-trade securities services and to enhancing the operational resilience and efficiency of the financial market infrastructure for securities settlement in the EU.

Qualifications, experience and skills:

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent in business administration, economics, international relations, political science, project management, information technology, finance or another relevant field;
• Experience in the field of market infrastructures in securities settlement and/or payments;
• Experience in project and/or change and release management;
• A sound understanding of the lifecycle of securities and post-trade processing of securities transactions;
• Familiarity with the initiatives of EU authorities to shorten the settlement cycle of securities transactions to T+1;
• A good understanding of the T2S governance and T2S change and release management processes;
• Proven experience of analysing complex information from a variety of sources.

You engage collaboratively with others and pursue team goals. You analyse complex information effectively and can evaluate different views to arrive at solutions.

You are motivated to contribute to the ECB’s mission and to work with colleagues from all over Europe.

Further information:

The contract offered will be fixed-term, the appointment being for 12 months as of the exact starting date of the selected person.

Temporary appointments may be extended or made permanent subject to organisational needs and budgetary constraints.

For additional information on this specific vacancy, you can speak to the hiring manager, Adrian Popescu, on +49 (0)69 1344 7169 between 15:00 and 16:00 on Friday, 21 March 2025.

Application and selection process:

The recruitment process for this position will be conducted remotely. It will include a written exercise, a presentation and an interview.

If you are not selected for this position but are still considered suitable, you will be placed on a reserve list.

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