Director, Technology Program Lead, Payments

*Seeking a seasoned Program Manager, experienced in managing large scale banking payments programs, across APAC region, to lead strategic program management.*

Responsibilities

• Formulating IT strategies and drive/execute system programs in the Payments domain ensuring alignment with overall business objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee the design, implementation, and continuous enhancement of secure, scalable, and efficient payment processing platforms.
• Collaborate closely with senior stakeholders, cross team liaising, across IT, operations, risk, compliance, and business units to drive innovation and operational excellence in payment systems.
• Lead senior stakeholder engagement, business requirements definition, solution design and implementation of new platforms or enhancements to existing platforms. Prepare and present regular reports and insights on payment system performance.
• Develop and maintain the program establishment through mentoring and coaching & sustainable people management plan to maintain wellness of team members and vendors.
• Oversee incident management and resolution processes, ensuring minimal disruption to payment services, and ensure right production support model covering the region.
• Oversee and manage subsidiaries/vendors the life cycle management, including necessary technology upgrades / vulnerability management for Payment systems defining right SLAs and tracking.
• Champion continuous improvement and adoption of emerging payment technologies to maintain competitive advantage.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Or Finance & Banking.
• Minimum 10 years in the banking and financial industries with relevant experience in Investment or Corporate Banking Domains with regional experience.
• Extensive experience of minimum 8 years in banking payment systems technology lead roles
• Deep understanding of payment processing architectures, ACH networks, payment gateways, and Security, Payment Regulations and Risk Frameworks.
• Proven track record of managing complex technology teams and large-scale payment projects for Financial Institutes, and efficiency improvements.
• Technical knowledge with experience in banking business process re-engineering and solution design.
• Experience or understanding of solution architecture, design patterns and best practices in business-technology solutioning.
• Strong strategic thinking, communication, and stakeholder management skills, and ability to prepare and present to senior managements including CIOs and business heads.
• Excellent communication skills and strong ability to steer / influence positive outcome effectively.
• Experience in managing external partners and vendors, and able to lead cross-workstream(s) and offshore delivery team(s).
• Professional certification, such as PMP, ITIL/ITSM would be an advantage.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.

If you hold the relevant experience in Program management, across banking payments, do reach me at [Confidential Information] for a confidential discussion.

EA License no: 16S8066 | Reg no.: R1657935

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