Head of Core Platforms

Join us as Head of Core Platforms

• Take on a leading role where you’ll focus on enhancing the end customer experience and delivering our business and technology vision
• You’ll be managing all aspects of change, operational health and efficacy of the platforms and applications that make up your domain
• You’ll use your technical and leadership skills in a constantly evolving environment.

What you'll do

This is a key strategic role as we create a domain aligned operating model for the RBSI Chief Information Office. Your main focus will be to ensure that systems operate in the most efficient and performant way while collaborating with bank-wide colleagues on the future of the core banking platform, and driving the strategic payment technology programme.

We’re looking for someone to deliver the technology strategic roadmap with the right architecture outcomes and alignment to enterprise architecture, solutions and commercial value. You’ll help us to achieve the domain’s customer vision and commercial outcomes, making sure that there is the right balance between current goals and building future technology, at the right cost.

We’ll look to you to lead and transform people, technology and architecture, engaging everyone by articulating a compelling purpose and building strong working relationships with all domains and centres of excellence.

You’ll also be:

• Running a front-to-back domain, managing the top of house technology risks, innovating and increasing the flow of customer value and improving the change and run efficiency
• Working to reduce technical debt and effectively holding peers to account around the impact of customer decisions across the technology life cycle
• Driving improved workstack prioritisation, focusing on customer value, and managing trade off decisions in the domain
• Aiming to get to the right workstack of run, change and innovation that enhances customer value through small and frequent deployments

The skills you'll need

You’ll be a capable communicator with a proven track record in working with senior business and technology partners. You’ll have experience of high performance agile and non-agile programmes, projects and teams along with expert knowledge of running large complex projects, spanning multiple teams and running senior governance forums. As a significant proportion of this role involves working with internal and external partners on delivery, direct vendor management experience is key.

You’ll also need

• Senior leadership, stakeholder management and influencing skills at all levels
• Good technical knowledge of one or more back-end systems such as core banking, payments or risk platforms
• Broad commercial technical acumen with a track record of delivering to budget
• The ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to colleagues at all levels