Director, Solutions Delivery

Requisition ID: 210355

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Director, Solutions Delivery is accountable for developing, leading, and overseeing delivery teams who are responsible for working with cross-functional development teams and business stakeholders to define and implement business strategies, product roadmaps, service offerings and new features.

The Director contributes to the long-term profitability of the Wealth and Asset Management business line by establishing performance goals and work practices which drive the design and development of high-quality products and solutions.

This is a demanding hands-on and strategic role which requires the incumbent to be knowledgeable of the financial services sector and emerging trends in the Wealth and Asset Management industry.

**Is this role right for you? In this role you will**:

- Management and oversight for delivery of a portfolio of initiatives focused on data management, client solutions, advisor solutions, portfolio management, trading and reporting, ensuring that the deliverable align with strategic priorities.
- Lead and drive a customer focused culture throughout the delivery teams to influence a client-centered design culture and to deepen relationships with business stakeholders and leverage broader bank relationships, systems, processes and knowledge.
- Understand and keep up to date with emerging technologies, trends and innovative solutions across the industry.
- Collaborate with business SMEs and technology teams to create platform roadmaps that align and assist in moving business strategies forward.
- Provide guidance to stakeholders to ensure prioritization is driven by business value.
- Define, lead and execute a cohesive strategy designed to limit technological debt and to effectively manage transition from legacy systems to modern technology platforms, maximizing operational efficiencies.
- Excellent relationship building, influencing and negotiation skills to build and maintain strong supportive relationships with stakeholders across the organization.
- Manage engagement with bank stakeholders and effectively communicate product release contents and expected product capabilities/customer journey.
- Engage with the engineering and design teams to help determine the best technical implementation methods as well as a reasonable implementation schedule to launch products on a regular basis.
- Manage communications and status reporting of ongoing initiatives, including summarizing project risks and options and facilitating prompt decisions when needed.
- Maintain an understanding of financial services markets, the competitive landscape and digital transformation trends relative to the Wealth and Asset Management sector and client/user needs and requirements.
- You possess a visionary and strategic leadership while inspiring team of solution architects and engineers to embrace your vision and be best in class team responsible for implementing and maintaining Wealth Technology solutions.
- You are future focused with the ability to develop roadmaps and build business cases including benefits and costs
- You thrive in providing strong leadership and driving employee empowerment and a high degree of engagement.
- You excel in overseeing the architecture and design of solutions for the enterprise in a large and distributed environment.
- You have experience delivering complex projects providing global, innovative solutions that improve the delivery of Wealth products
- You excel in the assessment and selection of Global Wealth technologies and integration partners.
- You excel in relationship, stakeholder management and influencing and negotiation skills, effective at all levels up to senior executives.
- You can efficiently perform management tasks including incident response and escalations; vendor & contract management; infrastructure management and service resiliency; and service ownership.
- You enjoy challenges of working on different types of projects (from large complex to simple).
- You collaborate with various business functions to ensure Wealth Technology meets business needs.

**Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have**:

- Individual projects range from Minor Enhancements ($50K - $100K) to major strategic initiatives with individual budgets $2MM - $10MM in a given year.
- Experience in leading and coaching delivery teams, with track record of attracting and developing talent
- Critical thinking skills: using logic and reasoning to evaluate alternative solutions, recommendations, summarize conclusions and approaches to mitigate risks
- Demonstrated ability to achieve strategic goals
- Ability to develop strong working relationships with business and technology partners
- Relevant working experience in the financial sector, Asset Management and Wealth Management experience
- Understanding of t