VP/SVP Enterprise Integration Delivery

Company Profile THE ROLE PROVIDES LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF INTEGRATTHE ROLE PROVIDES LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF INTEGRATION SOLUTION TEAM LEADING REGIONAL INTEGRATION PROJECTS AS PART OF THE REGION'S TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVES. THIS SHALL INCLUDE PROJECTS FOR IMPLEMENTATION AND INTEGRATION OF DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS AS WELL AS TECHNOLOGY BUILD INITIATIVES. THE ROLE ENTAILS DESIGNING AND DRIVING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DEVELOPMENT BEST PRACTICES, WHILE PLAYING A CRUCIAL ROLE IN SPEARHEADING TECHNICAL ANALYSIS, DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND SYSTEM INTEGRATION TESTING FOR INTEGRATION IMPLEMENTATIONS. Job Responsibilities Responsibilities • Design and develop integration solutions to meet business needs and objectives • Develop and maintain the appropriate integration architectural frameworks, standards, policies and best practices within which the region can operate and develop IT capability to ensure maximum return on investment and consistency with business strategic directions. • Act as a point of contact for all technical system integration and development queries, taking functional design requirements and translating them into functional and technical system specifications. • Responsible for the development planning and delivery of system integration and technology development book of work. • Work with project and test managers to ensure efficiency of system integration test cycles and propose improvements required if defects are found. In addition to unit testing code, this includes supporting all testing cycles (System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing) ensuring all deliverables are aligned with technology development governance, championing and utilizing Quality Assurance procedures. • Work with architecture team and country teams to ensure through adequate system design and testing that technology operations risks can be minimized and that application data is appropriately structured, controlled and utilized within the business. • Work with Information Security and Technology Infrastructure teams for the provision of effective IT security including the standards to be applied in application development and delivery, identification of threats and recommendation of mitigating actions as and when necessary. • Support effective working relationships among technology leadership team and with key stakeholders in the business as well as third party vendors. • Be accountable for appropriate, effective team structures, developing a high performing team with appropriate skillset, managing timely recruitment, succession plans, performance management, personal development & training. Job Requirements Requirements • Degree in an IT related discipline • Strong experience with integration technologies such as ESB, event streaming, ETL, MQ, API, etc • Strong understanding of integration patterns, standards and best practices • Experience with integration platforms such as Mulesoft, Boomi, Kafka is a plus • Financial technology background experience (Core banking, Corporate Banking, Investment Banking, Transaction Banking, integration experience preferred) with strong development experience including past software development role as well as previous experience in the integration of vendor solutions • At least 10 years of experience managing software development teams with excellent track record of delivery • Previous experience with stakeholder management at senior levels • Excellent oral and written communication • Strong decision making and analysis skills • Strong understanding of Software development life cycle • Strong knowledge and experience in any or several of the following domains is preferred: Cash management, Trade finance & Lending, Core Banking, Transaction Processing, Business Process Management, Data management and Business Intelligence.