Banking Program Director: Business Design/Architecture/Delivery

You will be part of the Bank execution governance and will support value delivery of the Top Initiatives for the Bank.

This is a senior role and we are looking for a hands on practitioner with 10+ years of successful track record of delivering large, complex change programs encompassing business and technology change within the banking industry.

Your experience has been gained with prestigious management consultancies where you worked as a Program Manager on Program turnaround, Business Design, Business Architecture, Program Delivery on budget in excess of 50m CHF;

Rates: Excellent
Duration: 6 months + extensions
Location: Zurich
Language: English

THE ROLE

As part of the wider Portfolio management group to ensure transparency and consistency

Execute the program assurance framework in conjunction with enhanced set of bank standards

Promote the refreshed Program Assurance capability to senior change executives throughout the organization

Conduct standardized program assurance assessments on key programs utilizing the bank's methodology

Business processes, applications, data, interface infrastructure, service and hosting; and the development approach: design, delivery and implementation

Continuously improve the Bank delivery management and assurance standards

Provide regular formal status updates to Head of Program Assurance

YOUR PROFILE

Strong project life cycle knowledge gained from performing a number of different roles throughout the Systems Development Life Cycle

Proven delivery background in Project and Program Management. Project Management accreditation (eg PMI/Prince2/PMP)

Broad solution architecture knowledge that encompasses business processes, systems, infrastructure, service and hosting

Experience in executing program assurance methodologies on large change delivery programs

Ability to manage workload independently with only high level guidance and supervision. Strong stakeholder management skills and the proven ability to operate at senior levels

Very good communication skills with demonstrated ability to write clear, concise business communication for multiple levels of audience (management, technical, user)

Fluent English only is required.

If this sounds like your next challenge please send us your CV for an immediate interview;