Cards Platform Solutioning Head - perm in SG Banking
Singapore
To support the Banks’s strategy in innovating & building a world-class technology organization while embracing a culture of diversity and inclusion.
If so, this could be the career opportunity for you !!
Identify how the big picture of the Bank’s cards programs come together from inception through implementation and deliver capabilities in production across the Cards ecosystem.
Ensure alignment with the bank’s cards technology standards in the design and execution of projects.
Providing technology leadership in designing Cards solutions and to plan and deliver system changes for the Bank’s Cards platforms globally to provide higher efficiency, quality and increase cost effectiveness while minimizing operational risk. This role would require interaction with Technology leadership and other product stakeholders to deliver the Group strategic priorities. Collaborate within the technology teams to identify efficiency models to achieve technology productivity targets in alignment with Group Technology strategy. The candidate will be a rigorous technical lead with a strong understanding of how to build scalable, enterprise-level global Cards applications. This candidate will also be directly responsible for providing talent management and people leadership for the Cards technology teams under his/her purview.
Leading a team of IT System analysts to provide cards solutions, build application capabilities across countries and support maintenance of Cards technology systems globally and in conjunction with the other Cards application development teams and technology groups.
The interview panel consists of current team members, ED Head of Cards Technology, MD Division Head, via F2F and VC interviews.
Cards Platform Solutioning Head - perm in SG Banking
- Lead, build and manage a team of IT System Analysts supporting cards platform and strategic projects across the Bank
- Build, manage and implement system capabilities based on understanding of the business functions and in line with the Bank’s architecture strategy
- Responsible for the functional solution construct for the Cards processor platform and distributed platform teams (Remote commerce, portals, collections, loyalty and digital banking interfaces)
- Ensure cross functional analysis is carried out during requirement and solution phase, by tapping into collective knowledge of business, system analysts, operations and cross-functional technology teams
- Plan and partner with Domain architects to establish the design solution by sharing and validating options in context of requirements and technology roadmap
- Build the team's capabilities to consistently maintain the repository of system features inventory and data maps for the cards domain
- Lead and engage in innovative problem-solving activities, requiring conceptual thinking creating 'out of the box' solutions with prototypes and pilots.
- Establish processes for system analysts to elicit detailed requirements from all impacted business and control teams and build the ability to translate the requirement insights into scalable group-wide solution with well-defined acceptance criteria
- Partner with Program Managers and Business Solution Specialist to collate, understand and finalize functional requirements
- Build a culture of collaboration with application development and testing teams to ensure that the requirements and solutions are correctly understood, refined as well as being translated into equivalent deliverables at each stage of execution
- Facilitate discussion of concepts with business, Operations and technology stakeholders in order to establish use cases. Lead with establishing MVP based on priorities and cost involved
- Establish E0/E1 sizing and Tshirt sizing best-in-class models (Framework for estimation) across cards technology by connecting needs, requirements with solution options and dependency factors
- Champion the delivery of high quality cards systems design and ensure adherence to global architecture principles, enterprise design principles, security and control standards
- Inspire and drive the team to be the superior Cards Subject Matter Experts in specializing across cards systems and cultivate wider insights and hands-on delivery capabilities for the cards technology organization
- Foster an environment of technology excellence and innovation
- Plan & collaborate across cross-functional domain application teams outside cards technology to manage functional, technical and security related dependencies of the solution
- Ensure that the application teams across group and countries build the enhancements according to the technical solution plan
- Partner with Test Management teams to review test strategy/test scripts, ensure completion of SIT, UAT, performance / load testing and application security testing with quality outcomes
- Manage the function validation support during UAT phases to ensure that requirement exit criteria are met correctly
- Build exceptional peer relationships with key stakeholders and be able to influence key outcomes. Escalate issues that impacts project schedule on timely basis and propose workarounds/resolutions
- Demonstrate energy and ability to function in an intense & complex environment demonstrating initiative and operating with an ownership attitude to deliver results.
In return for this excellent career opportunity, we ask that you have the following:
- Track record in developing and delivering global / regional Cards capabilities for a multi-national/regional company with annual budgetary responsibility
- Leadership experience in managing IT System or business analysis teams. Past roles as a Senior Business Analyst with demonstrable experience having led solution delivery for cards is a critical requirement
- Thorough knowledge of Credit Cards domain is a must and understanding of Cards ecosystem & trends
- Experienced in executing large-scale Cards technology transformation and migration projects. A good understanding of the credit card industry and functions of HSM and different types of keys is essential.
- executed projects requiring cross functional analysis across business lines and technology teams and using both Waterfall and hybrid Agile methodology
- Prior hands on experience having worked as a business analyst and provided solutions design in the Cards space across multiple functions like Cards Issuing & acquiring management, Transaction Management, Disputes, Authorization, Settlement, Loans , EPP, Rewards , Loyalty etc.
If this speaks to you and you are ready for a new challenge, please send your Resume in MS word format to Bennie.Yeo@springasia.comAdd me here on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bennieyeo/
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