Head of Architecture, Core Products

**Job Summary**
- Head of Architecture, Core & Wealth Products - is responsible for the end-to-end Architecture supporting transformations across Core Banking, and Wealth Core Product Platforms- Have a deep understanding of the Core Banking and/or Wealth domains, including Deposts, Lending, Payments, and Wealth products like Mutual Funds, Equities, Fixed Income etc
- Drive API solutions for platforms across these domains
- Drive solution for transformational initiatives including in Lending, Credit Cards and Wealth Products
- Strengthen and adopt SCB cloud Core Banking platform
- Lead the strategy, architecture and roadmap for these domains
- Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to ensure that technology strategy, priorities are relevant to business strategy and objectives
- Contribute in uplifting architecture practice in all aspects including resiliency, security, reduction of complexity and performance, as well as architecture governance for these domains
- Enforce Enterprise Architecture Policy expectations
- Ensure regulatory and audit expectations and requirements from Architecture & cloud adoption perspective
- Ensure an innovative and sustainable enterprise
- Create intentional architecture to be nimble aligned with cloud transformation agenda
- Manage holistically obsolescence and vulnerability
- Lead principle driven management of security, reliability, resiliency, and recoverability

**Key Responsibilities**

**Strategy**
- Develop and drive technology strategy aligned to both Business and Group’s Tech strategy
- Provide architecture direction, guiding principles, guardrails and roadmaps that are aligned to both Business and Group’s Tech strategy
- Govern the tech decisions, and architecture directions across portfolio of change
- Accelerate the Cloud Value strategy through architecting strong foundational building blocks and reusable Cloud patterns.
- Provide directions of SaaS based products where it makes technical and commercial sense to migrate from on-prem products.
- Drive Adoption of Information and Cyber Security controls delivered by Cyber Security Services globally across the Consumer, Private and Business Banking (WRB) portfolio.
- Strategy to increasing productivity of our cloud architecture & engineering through providing them the right tools, career paths and collaboration capabilities.
- Improve developer productivity through creation Infrastructure as Code, Cloud patterns which are engineered well and used by development teams across the bank accelerating speed to market.

**Business**
- Enable business to increase revenue where speed to market is crucial - by modernising, reducing the complexity of the technology landscape and transforming technology assets to fit-for-purpose, flexible and cloud ready platforms that supports business innovations required to enable aggressive acquisition & retention in the targeted segments & markets.
- Driving and enable cloud adoption and modernisation of technology landscape
- Identify technology bottlenecks in Cloud & DevSecOps and specify optimization/automation to be implemented.
- Collaborate with various Business, Technology and Security Teams.
- Govern the architecture decisions, and directions across the bespoke domain
- Bring thought leadership in assessing and defining architecture and design solutions for cloud

**Skills and Experience**

**Processes**
- Develop architecture blueprint for transformation agenda including cloud following Architecture Management standards and processes
- Facilitate Architecture governance and approvals
- Work with Architecture, Security, Compliance, Cloud and Technology Governance to follow appropriate policies, procedures and controls
- Increase cloud adoption efficiency by creating reusable architecture/design artefacts like patterns, implementations, source code, templates.

**People & Talent**
- People leadership responsibility, set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives.
- Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from the team.
- Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development; make sure that the team members are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles, ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.
- Employ, engage and retain talents with diversity agenda in mind.

**Risk Management**
- Ensure a full understanding of the risk and control environment within the architecture, Cloud & DevOps organisation
- Ensure onboarding of technologies are done properly with Legal, Compliance and Security Teams
- Act quickly and decisively when any risk and control weakness become apparent and ensure they are addressed within an appropriate timeframe and, if necessary, escalated through the relevant committees

**Governance**
- Ensure adherence to, ban