Overview
In this role you lead the Core Banking and Card Platforms, guiding multi‑year strategy, architecture and delivery to support growth, regulation and new products. You act as the long‑term custodian of platform integrity, balancing resilience and commercial value while shaping the bank’s platform direction. You will lead cross‑functional teams across engineering, product, architecture and operations, partnering with executives and platform consumers across regions. You influence decisions at senior levels and drive continuous improvement in risk, performance and delivery. This is a senior, impact‑driven role at Investec, a bank that builds bold solutions with a focus on durability and value.
Pay / Benefits
- wellbeing benefits
- 4 days in the office per week with 1 remote day
- inclusive culture and belonging
Responsibilities
- Set and maintain a multi‑year strategy for Core Banking and Card Platforms and shepherd architecture and domain boundaries.
- Safeguard platform integrity as new products and jurisdictions adopt capabilities, prioritising resilience, scalability, security and commercial value.
- Lead delivery of platform capabilities enabling growth, regulatory change and new product development across multiple teams.
- Establish governance, prioritisation and risk controls balancing change with stability.
- Own platform health, resilience, availability and service performance with robust incident management and continuous improvement.
- Manage budgets, forecasting, vendor relationships and business cases for investment value.
- Be the senior technology voice for Core Banking and Card Platform, briefing executives on performance, risks and trade‑offs.
- Grow and inspire multidisciplinary teams, building leadership, accountability and succession.
Key requirements
- Significant leadership experience in banking/financial services technology (credit, banking, payments, card or core banking platforms).
- Proven track record of running complex, business‑critical technology services in regulated environments.
- Experience balancing stability with strategic transformation and leading organizational change.
- Strong commercial and financial management skills for technology investments and vendor partnerships.
- Strategic thinking with the ability to plan 3–5 years ahead while managing short‑term demands.
- Exceptional stakeholder management, including engagement with Executive Committees and senior stakeholders.
- Proven ability to lead, develop and retain high‑performing teams and make priority‑driven decisions.
- Solid understanding of banking platform architecture, delivery, risk, governance and executive communication.
- Stakeholder management
- Influencing and communication
- Leadership and people development
- Banking platform architecture
- Operational resilience and governance
- Delivery orchestration across multiple teams
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