Head of Technology Strategy

Key Responsibilities

This role involves delivering end-to-end technology initiatives across global teams, with a focus on treasury and markets technology.

Main objectives include driving planning, execution, risk management, and stakeholder reporting for multi-million-dollar programs. Governance of multiple agile teams across engineering, QA, DevOps, and data streams is also essential.

• Delivery Leadership:

• Own the delivery of Treasury & Markets technology initiatives across India and global teams.
• Drive planning, execution, risk management, and stakeholder reporting for multi-million-dollar programs.
• Govern multiple agile teams across engineering, QA, DevOps, and data streams.
• Ensure delivery excellence in resiliency, scalability, security, and regulatory compliance.

Hands-on Program Management

A key aspect of this role is hands-on program management, which includes staying deeply involved in execution - architecture reviews, dependency management, release planning, cutover management.

• Stay deeply involved in execution — architecture reviews, dependency management, release planning, cutover management.
• Drive modernization of legacy Treasury & Markets platforms (monolith-to-microservices, cloud migration, data streaming).
• Implement best practices in Agile/Scaled Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, observability, and cloud-native delivery.

Solutioning & Modernization

Partner with product owners and treasury stakeholders to define target state architectures, shape modernization roadmaps in microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, real-time data, and cloud.

• Partner with product owners and Treasury stakeholders to define target state architectures.
• Shape modernization roadmaps in microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, real-time data, and cloud.
• Oversee vendor platforms (Murex, Calypso/Adenza, FIS, Finastra, TCS BaNCS, Oracle OFS) and internal builds.

Ai & Productivity Enablement

Champion the use of AI/GenAI tools for engineering acceleration (rapid prototyping, test automation, code refactoring), explore AI-driven approaches for program monitoring, predictive delivery analytics, risk alerts.

• Champion the use of AI/GenAI tools for engineering acceleration (rapid prototyping, test automation, code refactoring).
• Explore AI-driven approaches for program monitoring, predictive delivery analytics, risk alerts.

People & Stakeholder Management

Build, scale, and managed high-performing delivery teams (25-50+ FTEs across captive/vendor ecosystems), partner with global CIO/CTO, business sponsors, and regulators to align delivery with business outcomes.

• Build , scale and managed high-performing delivery teams (25-50+ FTEs across captive/vendor ecosystems).
• Partner with global CIO/CTO, business sponsors, and regulators to align delivery with business outcomes.
• Manage third-party vendors and offshore/onshore delivery partners.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have 15+ years of experience in software delivery for BFSI (with at least 7–10 years in capital markets / treasury systems).

• 15+ years of experience in software delivery for BFSI (with at least 7–10 years in capital markets / treasury systems).
• Strong track record as Delivery Director / Head of Delivery / Program Director in Sell-side / Buy-side / Treasury tech.
• Deep expertise in delivery of mission-critical systems: Treasury, ALM, Risk, MM, FX, Fixed Income, Funding, or Investment Platforms.
• Hands-on experience with modernization projects: microservices, APIs, cloud-native, containers (Kubernetes/Docker), real-time data pipelines (Kafka/Pulsar).
• Solid grounding in engineering + solutioning — not just governance, but able to dive into delivery challenges.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering and use of AI for delivery productivity.
• Strong global stakeholder management (Front Office, Treasury, Risk, Finance, and Operations).

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