Requisition ID: 219707
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Purpose

The Vice President, Commercial and Business Banking Engineering (The Vice President), is a pivotal leadership role responsible for the seamless operation, continuous improvement, and strategic direction of the Canadian Bank's Commercial and Business Banking portfolio. This role ensures the delivery of innovative IT business solutions that align with the Bank's overarching strategy, driving technological advancements and operational excellence.

The Vice President will oversee the development and implementation of cutting-edge technologies, fostering a culture of high availability, reliability, and security. By collaborating with various departments, the Vice President will enhance customer engagement, streamline processes, and support the Bank's mission to provide exceptional financial services. This role is integral to maintaining the Bank's competitive edge and achieving long-term business objectives.

Accountabilities

• Responsible for owning the Canadian Banking Commercial & Business Banking relationships, technology strategy and roadmap.

• Collaborates with the Canadian Banking business lines, along with the technical and operational groups across the Bank to ensure alignment of technical solutions to the business strategy, use and deployment of best practices in business support solutions, and the alignment and application of Bank operational and security standards.

• Leads and drives a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, technologies, systems and knowledge.

• Directs the management of application engineering and support functions to ensure all applications developed have a high degree of integrity, reliability, resiliency, and availability to meet the business need, with sensitivity to local regulatory requirements.

• Leads the development and implementation of strategic plans, policies, and standards surrounding systems engineering, technology trends and strategies, information security, production application support for the business units serviced globally.

• Transformation leader that will bring technology and business strategy and align with cultural mindset shift with cross functional teams.

• Owns the technology budget and is responsible for planning, forecasts and achieving financial targets.

• Delivery in close partnership with Global Transaction Banking Engineering teams.

• Leads with a system resiliency mindset, including driving high standards for application stability. Reviews production support, audit, security & risk issues to ensure root causes are identified, properly defined, documented and reported; ensures issues are understood by senior management and that corrective action will be taken.

• Directs day-to-day activities in a manner consistent with the Bank's risk culture and the relevant risk appetite statement and limits. Communicates the Bank's risk culture and risk appetite statement throughout their teams.

• Creates an environment in which his/her team pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct.

• Builds a high-performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates the team by fostering an inclusive work environment and using a coaching mindset and behaviors, communicating vison/values/business strategy, and managing succession and development planning for the team.

Education / Experience

• University degree in Computer Engineering / Applied Science / Technology.

• 10+ years of Software Engineering experience.

• 10+ years of progressively increasing leadership experience in Information Technology management data, platform, and system(s) management.

• 10+ years of Global application development and support.

• 5+ years of Solutions or Enterprise Architecture.

• 2+ years of System Reliability Engineering.

• Strong technical communication skills with a proven ability to understand key business and technical concepts and present them based on target audience (e.g. Senior Executives, Business Sponsors, Architects, Developers).

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto
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