Director – Scheduling Platform Engineering

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Being a leader within the IT Enterprise Product and Platform Engineering department, you will be responsible for our critical infrastructure protecting the global financial services industry.
• You will be part of a diverse and collaborative team with critical responsibilities within the Production stability team.
• As the Director of IT Enterprise Scheduling and Service Level Management, you will drive the strategy and implementation of our scheduling platforms and directly impact the availability of our products and services to our clients.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the modernization of the Scheduling platforms across mainframe and distributed environments.
• Lead the Service Level Management function and work closely with clients and internal customers to improve clarity on real-time processing completion predictability.
• Bring awareness of industry leading tools/technologies to develop long term strategies.
• Establish positive relationships with key vendors to ensure the best outcomes.
• Collaborate with all Technology teams ensuring they leverage the latest scheduling capabilities.
• Host regular meetings with Application Development and infrastructure service owners in each area to review status and address issues.
• Ensure that best practices developed for a single product line (such as Clearing) are shared with other product lines.
• Align with core ITIL Process including Change, Problem and Incident Management.
• Develop the core components for alignment with support teams for technology lifecycle management.
• Extensive involvement in audit and regulatory reviews as the leader of a critical governance function
• Ensure that tasks executed by the team have fully detailed procedures suitable for review by both internal and external auditors.
• Ensure that all engineering activities done by the team is fully in compliance with our policies and standards.
• Participate in multiple forums across us as a key technical collaborator on topics related to Disaster Recovery, Resilience, Application Hosting and foundational services (such as networking, storage, replication, identity management, messaging, etc).
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.
• QUALIFICATIONS:
• 10 years of Information Technology management experience in a technology leadership and functional lead roles.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field and/or related experience.
• Strong people leadership to drive critical, team and organizational transformation.
• Good interpersonal skills and experience working with clients, senior management and working with regulators / supervisors.
• Ability to work across teams to create partnerships that achieve organization goals, and passionate about building an innovative way of working.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills, ability to communicate technology concepts to IT as well as Business Management
• Prior Banking and Financial services proven experience, preferably banking, or Wealth/Investment Management
• Proven track record in strategic planning, business development, and client management, with experience in leading teams.
• Strong abilities on Data Analysis and strong financial foresight– ability to systematically apply a combination of inductive and deductive reasoning to examine information, interpret results and arrive at well-founded logical conclusions.
• Detail oriented, excellent at follow-through on actions, able to prioritize and focus on most urgent tasks.
• Familiarity with SDLC management & Agile
• Experience initiating and managing Continuous Improvement Projects, driving to successful delivery of improvements.
• Deep understanding of Mainframe delivery and distributed hosting, network, storage, messaging, identity management, encryption
• Must have experience with all aspects of Resilient data center management: multi-Region configuration, Disaster Recovery testing, and managing replication.

EOE:

Our client is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at our client are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics