Director

About the Company

As a leading organization in Trade Finance and Supply Chain IT, we are committed to delivering innovative solutions that drive efficiency and growth. Our mission is to empower businesses through technology, fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence.

About the Role

The Director will lead the Trade Finance & Supply Chain software delivery teams in India, ensuring the delivery of expected IT functionality with stability and scalability. This role involves managing a large team and collaborating with various stakeholders to drive strategic initiatives.

Location - Mumbai / Bangalore

Qualifications & Experience

• Education Level:

  Bachelor Degree or equivalent

• Experience Level:

  At least 15 years

Required Skills

• Trade Finance & supply chain domain knowledge is a must.
• Candidate must be very familiar with Trade Finance and Supply chain domain functions, and must be able to effectively and efficiently discuss with business counterparts.
• Good knowledge of corporate banking products like Payments, Credit, eBanking, Accounting systems is a big plus.
• Expert in various project development methodologies (Agile-Scrum, Agile-Kanban, Waterfall etc).
• In-depth understanding of tooling and engineering aspects of software development (DevOps Tools, Cloud technologies etc.).
• Must be able to collaborate with the development, test & production support team.
• Good communication skills and excellent team player.
• Proven experience of managing large delivery teams (150+ FTE).
• Active Interest and Experience in AI techniques applied to Delivery and Deployment procedure would be a plus.

Direct Responsibilities

• Vision in strategy:

• Key leadership role responsible for managing and driving the IT strategy, execution and delivery of technology and solutions, for Banking Platform IT.
• The successful candidate will ensure management of 200+ Trade Finance & Supply Chain IT professionals.
• Will act as a key partner with business stakeholders to drive the overall Trade Finance & Supply Chain IT strategy.
• Must be very well versed with Trade Finance business, its challenges and operational needs.
• Build strong relationship with global and regional Business, IT & Ops leaders, in collaboration with different IOCs, to drive business successfully and to ensure consistency and alignment across systems.
• Visualize business changes and create an IT/innovation mindset so that solutions are ready for the growth of business and are future ready.

Delivery and operations:

• Overseeing delivery of high-quality, complex IT Programs for various products/instruments used by Trade Finance and Supply Chain business lines.
• Implement Agile methodologies to ensure efficiency in delivery operations.
• Platform availability, scalability and performance – to support high transaction volumes.
• Collaborate with Application Production Support to optimize production incidents resolutions.
• Manage relationships with technology partners ensuring cost effective delivery of solutions.
• Drive digital transformation initiatives to improve delivery efficiency.
• Budget management and cost optimization.
• Continuous monitoring of performance & efficiency of the setup.
• Provide support for business stakeholders & operations leadership.

People Development:

• Drive and manage people development initiatives in partnership with HR.
• Responsible for mentorship and career growth of the in-scope employees.
• Consulting point for Talent Acquisition & Technology solutions.
• Further develop architectural / design skills within leveraging on in-sourced out-sourced staff.

Risk and compliance:

• Ensure compliance with global regulatory requirements.
• Drive all the dimensions of IT risk management for the full scope of Trade Finance & supply chain assets.
• Implement existing robust IT governance and reporting mechanisms to manage operational excellence.
• Risk mitigation via implementation of technology obsolescence remediation.

Digital Transformation:

• Manage initiatives, which includes framing transformation programs.
• Define “MoveToCloud” trajectories for the existing IT assets to maximize the benefits out of these.
• Design new IT assets with “Cloud Native” features.
• Getting buy-in from stakeholders and contributors.
• Define the governance, secure capacity, and budget, build/consolidate and maintain the plan, manage dependencies and drive to completion, ensuring effective communication, continuous alignment of contributors and timely running of governance routines.

Contributing Responsibilities

• Trade Finance and Supply chain domain knowledge to effectively discuss and strategize client and operation’s needs.
• Should be able to drive functional discussions with non-technical stakeholders.
• Technology validation & evolution.
• Support & leadership to organizational initiatives.
• Identify gaps in existing systems and create action-plans to plug those gaps rapidly.
• Promote automation in all areas that helps to improve quality and faster delivery.

Preferred Skills

• Ability to collaborate / Teamwork.
• Organizational skills.
• Communication skills - oral & written.
• Creativity & Innovation / Problem solving.
• Ability to understand, explain and support change.
• Ability to anticipate business / strategic evolution.
• Ability to inspire others & generate people's commitment.
• Ability to manage / facilitate a meeting, seminar, committee, training…
• Ability to develop