IT Integration Lead – Application Lifecycle & Support

IT Integration Lead – Application Lifecycle & Support

Location: Saclay, France – Hybrid, 2 days per week onsite

Salary: Up to €70,000 + benefits

Employment: Permanent

We are currently looking for an experienced IT Integration Lead to join an international organisation operating within a highly regulated and business-critical environment.

This is a hands‑on leadership position combining team management, application integration, application lifecycle management and operational application support .

You will lead an Application Integration team and take responsibility for ensuring business applications are successfully introduced into production, maintained throughout their lifecycle and supported effectively within a critical IT environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, organise and develop the Application Integration team.
• Manage application integrations from business requirement through to production deployment.
• Oversee application lifecycle management and operational support.
• Coordinate N2/N3 application support, incident resolution and problem management.
• Manage technical and supplier escalations through to resolution.
• Work closely with business teams, Global IT, infrastructure, cybersecurity, project teams, vendors and application integrators.
• Participate in application design, impact assessments and dependency analysis.
• Coordinate application releases, patching, changes and production deployments.
• Participate in Change Advisory Board activities and assess technical changes, risks and rollback plans.
• Maintain application documentation, operational procedures and application governance information.
• Contribute to application roadmaps, CMDB quality and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support business continuity, corrective and preventative actions where required.

Required Experience

• Significant experience in application integration, application lifecycle management, software deployment or N2/N3 application support .
• Previous hands‑on team leadership or management experience.
• Strong experience supporting business-critical applications within production environments.
• Good understanding of technologies supporting enterprise applications, including Windows Server, Active Directory, networks, databases, interfaces and ITSM environments .
• Experience managing incidents, escalations, application changes and production deployments.
• Strong organisational, prioritisation and stakeholder-management skills.
• Fluent French and professional/fluent English are essential.
• Ability to work onsite in Saclay two days per week .