About CLS:
CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day.
Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.
CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.
Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people. Our values underpin everything that we do at CLS and define our working environment:
- Pivotal purpose
- Trusted guardian
- Targeted innovation
- Facilitate connections
- Delivering excellence
- Inclusive culture
Job information:
- Functional title – Head of Digital Workspace
- Department – Infrastructure Management
- Corporate level – Executive Director
- Report to – Managing Director, Head of Infrastructure Engineering & Support
- Location - New Jersey, Metropark (Hybrid Onsite, 2 days per week)
- Expected full-time salary range between $250,000 - 260,000 + variable compensation + 401(k) match + benefits.
- Note: Disclosure as required by NJ Pay Transparency Law of the expected salary compensation range for this role.
Job purpose
Reporting into the Head of Infrastructure; The Head of Digital Workspace is a senior executive role responsible for defining, driving, and delivering the organization’s digital workplace strategy. As an Executive Director, the incumbent sets the long-term vision for the digital employee experience, developing and implementing a delivery strategy for End User Computing whilst ensuring a consistent and high-quality level of technical operational support is delivered for Windows and mobile end points, collaboration platforms, email and telephony.
The successful candidate will combine deep technical expertise in workplace platforms with sharp business acumen, exceptional stakeholder management skills, and a relentless focus on adoption, productivity, and employee satisfaction.
Essential Job Functions:
Strategy & Vision:
- Define and own multi-year Digital Workspace strategy, aligning it with corporate technology and people strategies.
- Responsible for modernization and automation in alignment with maintenance and delivery functions for End User Computing platforms
- Responsible for hardware and software patching and End of Life/Support asset tracking and lifecycle management processes. Includes planning, managing and sponsoring BAU and project asset upgrades to maintain a supported position.
- Benchmark against industry best practices and competitor environments to identify opportunities for competitive differentiation.
Platform & Product Ownership:
- Responsible for ensuring the Production service is prioritized with all service incidents, problems and requests responded to and actions. Act as an escalation point for high priority application and infrastructure service support incidents and ensure the function is meeting and exceeding agreed business SLAs, KPIs and performance targets.
- Working closely with Infrastructure Engineering and Architecture teams to develop strategies for End User Computing platforms and services as well as mobile end points, collaboration platforms, email and telephony
- Ensure the risk controls are documented, regularly reviewed and tested. Identified operational risk issues are captured with appropriate risk issue actions tracked to agreed timelines. Define and implement standards and procedures to adhere to current best practice and drive continual service improvement.
- Vendor relationship owner for several CLS managed service providers and service delivery contracts included. Budgeting and management of software and hardware maintenance contracts.
- Responsible for managing service resilience including backup and disaster recovery process and procedures. Plan and conduct quarterly DR tests for all datacenter and cloud hosted services ensuring any findings are captured and addressed.
Leadership & Organizational Development:
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of managers, engineers, product owners, and change specialists.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, and outcome-oriented delivery.
- Set clear objectives, manage performance, and build a talent pipeline aligned to the organization’s growth trajectory.
- Represent the Digital Workspace function on senior leadership forums, technology steering committees, and cross-functional task force.
Minimum Education Required:
- Bachelor’s degree educated or equivalent
- Other relevant industry standard IT certification desired e.g. Citrix / Microsoft / VMware
Minimum job-related Experience Required:
- Must have a minimum of 10+ years of progressive experience in IT, digital workplace, or enterprise technology, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.
- Demonstrated success delivering large scale digital workplace transformation programs across a complex, multi-site organization.
- Must have strong technical operational management support experience delivering enterprise level high quality, reliable ubiquitous end user services including Microsoft365 and Teams at scale.
- Strong experience leading and managing global end user support functions across multiple geographical locations essential.
- Solid understanding of monitoring and managing key service KPIs/SLAs and delivering a world class service.
- Operational risk and control management processes.
- Strong vendor management experience for managed service providers and service support contracts.
- Asset management and lifecycle (EOS/EOL) process management.
- Experience of working in a regulated financial services / banking organization.
Special Skills/Knowledge:
- Ability to demonstrate strong management and leadership qualities.
- Possessing a strong service-oriented mindset can consistently deliver a high level of service to the business.
- Strong team working skills, both as a contributor and facilitator.
- Has the ability to influence decisions.
- A high level of presentation and communications skills with the ability to communicate confidently with both business and technical staff at all levels.
- Proactive individuals who can take the lead in engaging with the business stakeholders.
- Demonstrate strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Able to manage their time effectively and prioritize their own and their team’s workload to meet changing demands from the business.
- Ability to communicate complex technical issues to different levels of management.
Our commitment to employees:
At CLS, we celebrate inclusion and consider this to be one of our strongest assets. We are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone feels comfortable to be who they are, and inclusion is valued. All employees have access to our inclusive benefits, including:
- Holiday - UK/Asia: 25 holiday days and 3 ‘life days’ (in addition to bank holidays). US: 23 holiday days.
- 2 paid volunteer days so that you can actively support causes within your community that are important to you.
- Generous parental leave policies to ensure you can enjoy valuable time with your family.
- Parental transition coaching programmes and support services.
- Wellbeing and mental health support resources to ensure you are looking after yourself, and able to support others.
- Employee Networks (including our Women’s Forum, Black Employee Network and Pride Network) in support of our organisational commitment to embrace and always be learning more about inclusivity.
- Hybrid working to promote a healthy work/life balance, enabling employees to work collaboratively in the office when needed and work from home when they don’t.
- Active support of flexible working for all employees where possible.
- Monthly ‘Heads Down Days’ with no meetings across the whole company.
- Generous non-contributory pension provision for UK/Asia employees, and 401K match from CLS for US employees.
- Private medical insurance and dental coverage.
- Social events that give you opportunities to meet new people and broaden your network across the organisation.
- Annual flu vaccinations.
- Discounts and savings and cashback across a wide range of categories including health and retail for UK employees.
- Discounted Gym membership – Complete Body Gym Discount/Sweat equity program for US employees.
- All employees have access to Discover – our comprehensive learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.
- Access to frequent development sessions on a number of topics to help you be successful and develop your career at CLS.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- 10+ years progressive IT or digital workplace experience with at least 5 years in senior leadership
- Proven delivery of large-scale digital workplace transformation programs across complex, multi-site organizations
- Technical operational management delivering enterprise-level end user services including Microsoft365 and Teams at scale
- Experience leading and managing global end user support functions across multiple geographies
- Demonstrated ability to monitor and manage service KPIs/SLAs and deliver world-class service
- Operational risk and control management processes experience
- Strong vendor management experience for managed service providers and service support contracts
- Asset management and lifecycle (EOS/EOL) process management
- Experience managing service resilience, backup and disaster recovery processes including regular DR tests
- Experience working in a regulated financial services or banking organization
- Strong leadership, stakeholder management, presentation and communication skills
- Industry standard IT certification (e.g., Citrix, Microsoft, VMware)
What We Do
In 2022, we celebrate 20 years of delivering unprecedented levels of risk mitigation, liquidity optimization and operational efficiencies. Trusted by thousands of counterparties within the global FX ecosystem, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars worth of currency flows through our systems each day. Created by the market for the market, our unrivaled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so you can put your capital and resources to better use. Our complementary products are designed to enable you to manage your risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.
