VP Head of CTO Philippines

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Reporting to the Chief Information Officer, HSBC Philippines, the jobholder is a key member and Head of the CTO delivery team, focusing on Networks, Enterprise Services, User Experience for Philippines. Principal Accountabilities:

• Manage, lead and develop the CTO Team in the Bank and oversee the CTO Team in the GSC fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Manage CTO team ITSO/TPEM’s for services in scope of domain for the Local franchise.
• Collaborate closely with local teams, Regional and Global CTO chain and ensure that the CTO strategic direction is shared, understood in the Philippines plus Philippines IT views & needs are fed in at the formative stage to Regional/Global CTO team.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
• Manage technology budgets, resource allocation, and vendor relationships effectively.
• Efficiently manage IT Assets and ensure regular evergreening of technologies of IT services is monitored and remediated as locally applicable in collaboration with the Service Sustainability Progamme Lead, relevant IT Service Owners and local business.
• Advise, analyse, plan and ensure delivery of high quality and cost-efficient technology infrastructure services in support of business strategies.
• Own, lead and drive the successful completion of all deliverables in the Bank and in the GSC associated with the development of mission-critical infrastructure technology.
• Review and analyse existing infrastructure effectiveness and efficiency, then developing strategies for improving or leveraging these systems.
• Co-ordinate with business stakeholders and technology delivery teams (onshore and offshore; in-house and third-party) to drive change and provide solutions to business problems and opportunities.
• Ensure high quality of project planning, execution, testing and oversight, by adhering to HSBC’s Change Framework and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and embedding Agile methods.
• Ensure systems are fit for the future and recommend/deliver changes required to improve platform efficiency and resilience.
• Ensure that business requirements and specifications are correctly captured and understood by the delivery teams to enable them to deliver high quality solutions.
• Managing Non-Financial Risk items & being on top of any CTO Helios risks, Patching/Cyber related, Third Party/Vendor Risk (TPR) landscape in country.
• Financials – Working with IT Business Management to ensure that CTO charges & recharges are being monitored, future year headwinds etc. are understood.
• Develop knowledge in the department, leveraging subject-matter expertise, experience and lessons-learnt.

Qualifications

• Background in the banking sector (at least 7 years), with broad knowledge of banking infrastructure in general, and specific knowledge of infrastructure relevant to corporate banking, markets, treasury.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills, able to forge trusted partnerships with a wide range of stakeholders across the Bank.
• Strong, strategic, analytical and critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into cost-effective technical, innovative and practical solutions of complex issues.
• Strong IT Infrastructure experience focused on Networks, Enterprise Services & User Experience
• Familiarity with compliance and regulatory requirements such as from BSP and all other Banking and Finance regulatory requirements.
• Ability to prioritize work, multi-task and collaborate to successfully deliver services to agreed levels in a diverse and constantly changing environment.
• Experience in tracking expenses and operating within budget.
• Experience with maintaining working relationships with vendors and service providers.
• Knowledge and experience of incident / problem / change and release management
• Agile mindset, passionate about driving innovation and disrupting traditional way of working.
• Experience with Agile methods, leading Pods and developing people with current & future skills.
• Effectively co-ordinate delivery of services involving elements delivered by other internal/external teams.

The following skills would also be an advantage:

• Knowledge of IT Payments infrastructure.
• Exposure to regulatory and compliance aspects of financial systems.

Due to the urgent hiring need, candidates with immediate right to work locally and no relocation need will be prioritised.
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