Technology Owner

Technology Owner

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field
• 10 years of progressively senior experience in technology design, development, and delivery
• Project delivery using formal methodologies
• Understanding and application of technology trends (banking industry and overall best practices)
• Strong relationship building, influence skills and ability to productively interact with all levels of leadership
• Strong facilitation, communication and presentation skills with tech and business audiences
• Ability to create/modify/communicate tech roadmap, and design/advocate for solutions that align to existing roadmaps
• Sense of urgency, and ability to problem solve on the fly
• Leadership of others, in formal and/or informal organization lines
• Leadership experience in app development/integration

Responsibilities

• Provides technology delivery leadership on initiatives of the largest size and complexity, working in partnership with Business Owner, and overall Project/Program Delivery Lead
• Applies Technology industry and TD-specific expertise, with TD application/infrastructure knowledge, and business acumen to deliver outstanding solutions to business problems
• Leads and mentors others in best practices related to tech delivery ie Methodology, Tech practices, architecture
• Accountable for alignment of technology solution with the Bank technology strategies and segment strategies (Target Operating Model Architecture end state)
• Represents exceptions to standard designs and practices to appropriate executive audiences
• Oversees the execution and ongoing evolution of the technology strategy, while anticipating and prioritizing with the business owner, the impediments and technology risks for resolution
• Prioritizes the product(s) backlog and roadmap
• Accountable for approving the technology estimates provided in or outside alignment with the Estimation Framework
• Builds and manages (formally or informally) a large, diverse technology team responsible for business solution analysis, solution design, build, technical analysis, quality assurance, and release management, across the program/project
• Coordinates the technology efforts across all CIO organizations, ITS, Architecture, TRMIS and other delivery partners, and drives risk and issue resolution across those verticals
• Engages appropriate technology stakeholders to identify and drive required outcomes through effective stakeholder management
• Makes decisions on resolution of project risks and issues, working through the project structure, and reporting relationships in the Technology organization
• Ensures issues are captured in post implementation reviews, to avoid recurrence
• Works with business leaders to confirm the solutions are functionality aligned with the product vision and that solution is fit-for-purpose
• Establishes a plan for all technology deployment(s) and coordinates technology dependencies across multiple projects to align with the integrated plan and reduce risk of organizational constraints
• Defines technology impacts of the program/project and accountable for technology delivery of the product roadmap
• Advocates for technology delivery that will provide the maximum customer value
• Responsible for the consideration of future production support implications with a cost-effective design and quality solution, inclusive of application resiliency and availability
• Leads others in the optimal use of tools to improve the performance and quality of technology delivery
• Responsible to manage technology third-party vendors and Statements of Work with a focus on performance, quality and cost management
• Drives the use of continuous improvement practices, such as interaction retrospective, and continuous integration
• Accountable for detailed real time technology resource plans
• Accountable to document the assumptions for the project schedule and resourcing plans that align with the business outcomes
• Technology leader and decision maker on assigned initiatives
• Ensures all technology teams and functions are providing estimates and updates to project schedule, outlining risks and issues, and driving remediation of tech risks, resolution of tech issues
• Accountable to the Delivery Lead to provide input and advice on all tech aspects of the initiative

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience for Mainframe Project Management; PDLC and Agile Methodology
• 10+ years of leading large, complex financial projects experience
• PMP Certification preferred, but not required
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• BS college degree preferred