Program Director

As a part of modernization of its Core Banking platform, our client in the Banking Sector is looking for a dynamic person to lead its next generation transformation.

In this role, the successful candidate will lead the Transformation efforts across multiple strategic programs spanning globally. This includes Standardization of Core Banking products/capabilities/flows across multiple Lines of Business, Platform Hardening, and planning of strategic Migration/Conversion to a Target State Platform stack.

The selected candidate will be responsible for facilitating and leading conversations with multiple stakeholders like Product Managers across multiple Lines of Business, Technology teams, Operations etc. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level.

The role also requires senior technical leadership and acumen to ensure that the program is achieving the business objectives and laying the foundation of a strong target state platform, architecture, operating model, and migration approach. This is required to make the transformation repeatable as the rollout is executed across multiple countries.

Responsibilities:

Facilitate conversations and agreement with senior Product Management, Product Owners, Operations and other stakeholders to help ensure alignment on Platform strategy and Transformation execution

Lead the Standardization of capabilities/flows/partner interactions/data attributes across multiple platforms globally, working with Product and Business partners from several lines of business

Set up strong governance on Capability/Scope definition as well as Business Design Authority forum to review and track functional decisions

Organize strategy, gap analysis work into an Agile Train, responsible for steering the ART; facilitates program level events: PI Pre Planning and Planning, Scrum of Scrums, PO Sync, System Demo, Inspect and Adapt.

Identify ways to simplify the platform, architecture. Collaborate with other Operations & Technology teams to ensure technology solution aligns to the standards and best practices and ensure dependencies and risks are addressed

Facilitate workshops, functional and technical solutioning sessions, driving closure and consensus with both business and technical teams. Solve issues / challenges by factoring input from partners and diverse points of view.

Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties as necessary

End to end ownership of key program decisions ranging from target state application architecture, interactions between Core Banking platform and other partners, selection of vendor capabilities to be used, adoption of automation processes for transformation

Drive culture change to help break down silos and have a holistic end-to-end view of business flows

Required Skills:

10+ years of combined experience in banking and financial services industry and 5-8 years Technical Program Management experience

Strong proficiency in knowledge with SAFe Agile methodologies

Strong domain functional experience in on or more of cash management, payments, receivables, liquidity management, working capital solutions, commercial card programs, trade finance

Preferred experience working with Core banking platforms

Experience with large Transformation Programs in the banking/finance sector

Familiarity with legacy banking systems (migrations, upgrades, etc.)

Strong understanding of technical architecture, can drive both functional and technical initiatives

Desired Skills:

Preferred familiarity with Accounting principles

Background in Architecting technical solutions

Database design experience

Experience with real-time or 24/7 systems

Cloud platform experience

Duration:

11 Months - high possibility of extension

Location:

Hybrid - Irving, TX