• Newly created regional role
• International leading brand
• Excellent compensation

Our client is a leading digital bank who has won multiple awards being the frontier of driving innovative digital solutions. They are transiting to act like an Agile tech firm.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver the next generation platform for all digital channels in the bank across all countries
• Coordinate end-to-end activities from front end to core banking systems
• Ensure alignment of requirements, design and delivery across all countries
• Manage stakeholder communication with business and technology senior management
• Drive PSCs, roadmaps and overall design and delivery alignment
• Ensure agile standards are met
• Inculcate dev ops culture in the teams
• Ensure delivery is timely and of high standards
• Drive adoption of common delivery framework across various technology teams and regions
• Drive vendor partner negotiations and manage the relationships
• Manage the budgets and track and present burn downs
• Ensure increase of delivery efficiency through each sprint
• Help create and present business cases where required to fund the initiatives
• Present updates and demos to senior management as required
• Create material for presentation to C-level executives
• Ensure high level of engineering standard is maintained and right opportunities provided to team for upskilling and cross-skilling
• Drive POCs to assess new solution/application paths

Key Requirements

• Proven leadership in delivering complex projects spanning multiple countries and working with teams in varied locations
• Solid understanding of agile practices
• Excellent organizational, partner and vendor management, negotiation, and prioritization skills.
• Proactive and able to work under pressure, strong problem-solving skills and positive “can do” attitude.
• Business understanding in vendor or/and operator/service provider environment
• Experience in Bank / Financial Institution Systems would be favourable
• Ability to lead a big team to common goals is a must
• Must be goal driven and able to creatively identify ways to deliver while managing a healthy relationship with internal and external stakeholders
• Should have delivered end-to-end projects and understand different tech stacks and complexity involved
• 10+ years of experience in driving complex projects, a must with at least 5 years of experience managing communications with senior executives in an organization, Strong communication skills including engaging senior management on strategic plans, leading project steering committees and status updates
• Strong Problem-Solving skills and ability to solve unstructured problem and challenge status quo
• Experience with development and socializing of business case and conducting product roadshow
• Experience in developing and presenting solutions & design to design review boards.
• Ability to present to C-level executives
• Must be able to maintain calm under time-critical and stressful scenarios and come up with creative ways to unblock teams

EA Licence No.: 15S7496

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