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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• A minimum of ten (10) years of progressive experience in technology delivery, business transformation, enterprise platforms, or large-scale platform implementations within financial services.
• A minimum of five (5) years demonstrated experience operating at an executive or officer level within a regulated environment.
• A minimum of five (5) years proven ability to lead enterprise initiatives, vendor transformations, and M&A-related execution through influence rather than direct control.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary senior technology execution partner to Enterprise and Line of Business executives, translating business strategy into executable, technology-enabled outcomes.
• Operate as a senior Business Relationship Manager, shaping demand upstream and downstream, aligning whole‑bank priorities, and maintaining continuity across technology, business leadership, and external partners.
• Partner with Line of Business leaders in the development and execution of multi‑year business and technology roadmaps, ensuring technology investment aligns with long‑term strategic intent.
• Proactively shape and influence technology demand by identifying where platforms such as FIS and other enterprise technologies can advance business and customer strategies before formal requests are submitted.
• Ensure business problem statements, financial impacts, and value realization expectations are clearly articulated upstream and continuously refined as conditions change.
• Partner with cross-functional Technology & PMO departments to accelerate delivery of strategic initiatives across the federated technology model.
• Identify delivery risks, cross-functional dependencies, capacity constraints, and organizational friction points; escalate with clear options and recommended actions.
• Ensure initiatives meet regulatory, resiliency, security, privacy, and risk management expectations (e.g., FFIEC, GLBA, PCI, internal risk appetite).
• Serve as the executive point of accountability when cross‑functional, cross‑vendor, or cross‑platform issues impact enterprise delivery timelines, business outcomes, or risk posture.
• Provide enterprise ownership of Whole Bank technology demand management, ensuring initiatives are aligned across Lines of Business and sequenced based on strategic value, capacity, and risk.
• Maintain a consolidated, enterprise view of technology demand with particular emphasis on FIS platform‑related initiatives, dependencies, and constraints.
• Ensure technology demand is managed as an integrated enterprise portfolio rather than isolated Line of Business requests, reflecting shared platforms, shared vendors, and shared delivery capacity.
• Partner with portfolio governance, architecture, and delivery leaders to prevent fragmented demand and ensure disciplined execution across the technology ecosystem.
• Serve as an executive partner with CIO leadership and enterprise stakeholders for technology execution related to mergers, acquisitions, and integrations.
• Provide oversight and coordination for Day 1, Day 100, and post-integration execution activities across platforms, data, security, vendors, and operations.
• Serve as executive command lead for major technology vendor relationships during mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, with specific emphasis on core and enterprise platforms such as FIS.
• Ensure vendor continuity, contractual posture, execution sequencing, and risk management from due diligence through post‑integration stabilization.
• Coordinate vendor strategy decisions across business, technology, risk, legal, finance, and procurement leadership during M&A activity.
• Reduce integration risk, execution fatigue, and institutional knowledge loss by applying consistent delivery discipline across M&A activity.
• Provide executive-level oversight for complex, cross-functional initiatives, including platform modernization, vendor-led transformations, and enterprise change programs.
• Drive outcome-based prioritization, benefits realization discipline, and transparent executive reporting in partnership with portfolio governance forums.
• Ensure business cases, funding assumptions, and value realization commitments are maintained throughout execution.
• Serve as executive steward for the Bank’s most strategic technology vendors, with primary accountability for the FIS relationship.
• Maintain trusted executive‑level relationships with vendor leadership and ensure alignment across technology, business, risk, finance, and operations stakeholders.
• Own executive‑level issue management and escalation for strategic technology vendors, ensuring enterprise issues are clearly framed, decisions are timely, and accountability is established across internal and external stakeholders.
• Partner with Procurement, Legal, Finance, and IT leaders while retaining executive accountability for vendor execution health and outcomes without duplicating formal contract management or procurement functions.
• Ensure vendor‑led initiatives are integrated into enterprise demand planning, prioritization, execution governance, and value realization oversight.

Benefits

• Base Pay PLUS Bonuses
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 401k
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Vacation/Sick Time
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Additional Benefits