Job Description

Investment Services and Global Delivery (IS & GD) technology team is looking to hire a senior technology delivery leader to provide strategy direction, build teams and provide delivery oversight across multiple functions across India.

IS & GD technology team is operating globally and will continue to look at better workforce foot print strategy. In support of this strategy, the senior technology leader role will be based out of Hyderabad, India and provide oversight of technology delivery between employees and IT vendor resources operating in the region. The primary role is to be part of the IS & GD technology leadership team and work with the India team to enhance process and delivery excellence.

The key responsibilities are:

• Work with delivery leaders of IS & GD technology & other key development and transformation portfolios to deliver high quality services from the India
• Be a part of the IS & GD technology leadership team in driving strategy covering workforce modeling, planning right sourcing of roles and ensuring timely onboarding and delivery
• Make effective recommendations to build an organizational model that can effectively serve high quality delivery and ensure the communication between the functions is seamless
• Be a strong advocate of HR policies and procedures ensuring all employees adhere to the core values and the operating culture
• Be a catalyst in driving cultural integration ensuring the local team thinks global while acting local
• Promote diversity and inclusion, providing transparency in organizational work activities
• Ensure talent planning, management and related supporting deliverables including but not limited to - succession planning, critical role identification, coaching and diversity hiring are done with the partnership of both global functional managers and HR
• Promote the culture of risk excellence in people, process and technology aspects. Ensure self and team anticipates, monitors, actively manages and reports all risk and compliance issues, breaches and suspicious activities
• While the primary role is to manage the Application Development & Maintenance (ADM) of the India resources, he/she will need look at strong integration of production support and testing teams ensuring seamless integration of technology delivery
• Retain accountability for the overall performance of the teams
• Lead and participate in client meetings, presentations, and conferences as required
• Establish and monitor an effective oversight framework to ensure that issues are appropriately identified, escalated and resolved.
• Establish and nurture a culture of individual ownership of tasks to embed a clear individual sense of accountability into staff members' behavior in performing their roles

• 20 + years of related experience, with experience working in global locations
• Ability to manage large diversified teams spread across multiple locations or regions and distributed workforce (Employee and IT vendors)
• Deep functional knowledge of the financial industry, preferably in Investment banking, asset management and asset servicing industry.
• Should have experience of managing large size teams that are geographically distributed Exposure to financial services industry is highly desirable
• Good technology capabilities, should be able to participate in technology strategic discussions and provide direction
• Work experience in multiple geographies and client facing roles is an added advantage
• Should have excellent communication skills, fluent in English written and oral
• Should have experience in delivering large scale, complex and transformational projects.
• Should have experience in Distributed Agile and Lean practices.
• Should have good understanding of DevOps, Cloud computing and the emerging technologies