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If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!\nAt its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values - caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.\nIf you like what we’re saying, keep reading!\nWhy this role is important to us\nGroup IT keeps SimCorp running. The same discipline we bring to our clients' investment operations is applied to our own enterprise platforms. 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However, in SimCorp, we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide a good work and work-life balance: flexible working hours and a hybrid model. And opportunities for professional development: there is never just only one route - we provide custom paths for professional development to support the direction you want to take.\nFor Poland Location\nCompensation ranges are being disclosed at the initial stage of candidate engagement.\nVisit our career pages to learn more about working at SimCorp: www.simcorp.com/career\nNext steps\nPlease send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually.\nPlease note that only applications sent through our system will be processed.\nAt SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.\nIf you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.\nWe are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.\nWho we are\nFor over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. 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