Head of Corporate Banking IT Services (CBI)

Main responsibilities

• Organize and prepare the Software Engineering capabilities according to the needs of the bank.
• Create a sustainable and productive environment for the teams to be in the best level of performance while developing themselves.
• Ensure the utmost level of quality of the deliverables produced by the department.
• Manage the budget of the IT Business Line contribution as well as the department internal budget.
• Implement the directives, ways of working and overall strategy of the bank inside the department.
• Ensure a proper level of project management and software engineering according to the bank standards and in collaboration with Head of CBI.
• Represent the department in front of the Business and IT Management in collaboration with the IT Business Line managers.
• Ensure a continuous work on the improvement of the Ways Of Working, tooling, sourcing, training, coaching, methodology, software engineering, organization and governance of the department as well as Singapore Center as a whole.
• Lead innovation within the department and contribute at Information Systems Asia Pacific-Singapore (ISAP) and at global Information Services & Risk IT (ISR) level to the identification and adoption of new innovative technologies/practices and way of working.

Qualifications and Profile

• At least 20+ years of experience managing development teams.
• Strong leadership with capacity to lead by influence.
• People centric mindset with successful experiences of senior people development and coaching.
• Capacity to attract and retain talents.
• Excellent project/program management expertise (PMP, Prince2, CMMI, RUP, SAFe or LeSS certifications are appreciated).
• Experience in designing and delivering green and brown field projects.
• Relevant experience in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering approach.
• Strong programming background (Java, .Net, Go, Rust, Node.JS etc) to influence the technology directions.
• Hands-on design experience with APIs, microservices, UI/UX technologies, big data, cloud, API, etc.
• Good domain knowledge Corporate Banking, especially in Core Banking, Strcutured Finance, Commercial & Syndicated Lending.
• Strong curious mindset with lifelong learner approach.