Vice President of Technology

Manage a diverse team of professionals, including offshore and outsourced personnel, responsible for application support across the bank.- Lead the application and integration team. As an essential member of the governance committee, oversee policy development, vendor selection, use case evaluation, and project approvals. Cultivate a culture of innovation to ensure the successful implementation and support of core banking technologies, establishing a robust, scalable, and resilient platform.- Effectively manage the "Run the Bank" team with responsibilities encompassing stability, monitoring and control, capacity management, and incident management of the bank's most critical applications.- Ensure the achievement of agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs).- Review and evaluate business requirements against existing and proposed systems, recommending an appropriate approach for providing solutions.- Analyze the impact of functional requirement changes on existing systems.- Direct and assist the development team in verifying the resolution of issues/functions developed by the team.- Actively participate in issue resolution activities by guiding and assisting the development team and building a strong functional relationship with them.- Understand business requirements from the bank and effectively convert them into Requirement Specifications and Functional Specifications.- Manage and maintain documentation describing custom configuration and parameterization of third-party provided solutions.- Provide technical guidance, information, and instruction to other IT staff requiring broader subject knowledge.- Program manage the implementation and modernization of large-scale core digital banking platforms.- Ensure the successful implementation of the PROGRAM DELIVERY’s strategy, responsibilities, services, and deliverables.- Monitor program reporting and assist the team in reporting to senior management and stakeholders.- Oversee project costs and ensure finances are well managed.- Provide and maintain a capacity planning and resource tracking service across the program.- Track financial reporting while ensuring that the program and projects adhere to the agreed budget.- Ensure cross-program dependencies are managed and the dependency log is accurately maintained.- Foster cohesion within the team and motivate members to produce quality work.- Provide project planning, milestone management, scope management, and resource forecasting.- Prepare regular status reports for engagement leadership.- Ensure awareness of and adherence to compliance/risk implications.- Seek regular updates from vendors, consultants, and the bank team on delivery progress.Escalate slippages to stakeholders as necessary.- Proven experience in cross-border team management- Demonstrated ability to plan, execute, control, and close projects while managing multiple components with minimal supervision- Strong skills in developing and maintaining project and program plans, including risk management, action tracking, issue resolution, and dependency mapping- Highly efficient in resource planning and task assignmentKnowledgeable in benefits realization, dependency mapping, and resourceSet alert for similar jobs