Transformation Architect

1.Strategic Planning:

a. Analyze industry trends and emerging technologies to make informed strategic decisions.

b. Align technology with business goals: Establish platform for regular collaboration with business stakeholders, to ensure continuous alignment of technology with business goals.

c. Create presentation slides, to communicate complex technical strategies effectively to business stakeholders.

2.Innovation & Process Design:

a. Lead in driving operational efficiency improvement internally (i.e process and simplification and automation).

b. Develop and implement change management strategies and plans to support the adoption of new processes and technologies.

c. Identify and address potential resistance to change.

d. Design and deliver training programs to support change adoption.

e. Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.

f. Monitor and evaluate the success of change initiatives.

3.Project Management & Delivery Execution:

The Transformation Architect serves as the embedded Project Manager for assigned strategic initiatives (e.g., Core Banking projects, Key banking applications projects, Cloud project delivery, etc.). Responsibilities may include:

a. Execution Ownership: Developing, owning, and driving the end-to-end execution roadmap and master project schedule. Accountable for delivering assigned projects on time, within budget, and to required quality standards.

b. Integrated Governance: Establishing project-level governance, managing RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) logs, and ensuring transparent reporting to the GTPMO Control Tower.

c. Dependency Management: Proactively identifying, tracking, and resolving complex cross-functional dependencies across business units, technology teams, and external vendors to safeguard the critical path of the transformation.

d. Manage and own the Transformation Office programme and project reporting through various format inclusive of: Power Point Reports, Microsoft Word Reports, Microsoft Project, Power BI, Jira, etc.

e. Financial Oversight: Developing detailed project budgets, tracking actuals against forecasts, and supporting the TCO projections for all assigned initiatives.

4.Analytical:

a. Conduct financial analysis and develop business cases for key big ticket projects, demonstrating a strong understanding of cost benefit analysis.

b. Craft clear and engaging messages to effectively convey Group Tech & Digital's strategies, achievements and initiatives.

Job requirements:

• Experience: Minimum of 6 - 10 years experience in technology related roles.
• Innovation : Proven ability to lead technology teams, with excellent strategic thinking and problem solving skills. Strong understanding of lean methodologies and principles.
• Project management: Demonstrate experience in managing large scale technology projects from inception to completion, in both Agile and traditional methods. Proficient in project management tools such as Jira is a plus.
• Communication across stakeholders: Strong interpersonal skills, good in verbal and written communication skills, able to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and senior management, and ability to conceptualise and visualize strategies through power point presentations.