Head of Technology Apac and Engineering Subsystems

The role will lead technology initiatives in the APAC business region, ensuring alignment with business needs and regional delivery priorities. This role focuses on architectural evolution, compliance, and operational excellence, supporting both regional and global technology strategies.

Representative will play a pivotal role as a key liaison between FNZ and its clients, ensuring strategic alignment and addressing technology-related concerns. This role is vital in facilitating seamless communication and collaboration across various teams.
- Regional Technology Leadership
- Represent technology towards clients, regulators, and internal stakeholders, ensuring consistent alignment with business objectives.
- Address audit, risk, and security concerns specific to the region, and act on technology-related requests from clients and regulators.
- Serve as a regulatory liaison when needed, including roles like SMF 24 in the UK.
- Engineering Leadership for Subsystems and Markets
- Lead Engineering Teams: Manage teams developing our capital markets solution and other subsystems, ensuring high-quality deliverables and timely project completion.
- Project Management & Stakeholder Engagement: Coordinate client-focused projects, collaborate with product managers and clients to define technical specifications, and ensure successful project delivery.
- Global Coordination: Oversee engineering efforts in the APAC region and integrate globally developed subsystems, optimizing collaboration and technical solutions.
- Architectural evolution
- Oversee and guide regional delivery to ensure feature reuse, compliance, and integration of non-client-initiated changes.
- Develop and manage the regional architectural roadmap to support long-term technical growth.
- Engage in Communities of Practice (COPs) and other initiatives aimed at continuous improvement and best practice adoption.
- Establish regional standards and metrics, implementing best practices that align with global architectural goals.
- Resource Management
- Collaborate with the Head of Delivery to determine regional resource needs and maintain team stability.
- Enable cross-regional resource sharing to support flexible staffing while adhering to Global Technology's (GT) leadership standards.
- Cyber and Information Security
- Laise with GCISO and mobilize support for CISO investigations from project teams
- Enforce security architecture and engineering eg. move to common identity and access solution, provide security observability into platforms
- Infrastructure and Change Management
- Laise with GCIO and adopt standards, ensure that CIO mandates are supported
- Support regional release management and document production
- Oversee regional infrastructure to meet both security and operational requirements, addressing any local concerns proactively.
- Lead the regional release board to coordinate release processes and manage infrastructure convergence.
- Ensure supportability and operational compliance with CIO standards, enhancing the region’s readiness for ongoing changes and supporting global infrastructure convergence.

Experience required
- Proven experience in a senior technology leadership role within a large, complex organization.
- Strong understanding of regional and global technology landscapes, with the ability to balance local and global priorities.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience in change management and infrastructure convergence.
- Familiarity with regulatory requirements and compliance standards in the region.
- About FNZ_
- FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back._
- We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution._
- We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA)._
- Together with our customers, we help over 20 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future._