Director, Emerging Technology (40001078)

Job Purpose

The job holder plans, manages, and controls the activities of the team responsible for innovation and researching market trends in context of emerging technologies. The team's responsibility is to look beyond current platform and identify new business opportunities leveraging emerging technolgies.

Key Accountabilities (1)

- Lead the Emerging Technologies team (plan, manage, control)
- Research market trends in contect of emerging technologies and partner-up with external technology providers
- Execute PoCs to get hands-on experience on new technologies
- Write code, build Demos and review code to make sure the team follows the architecture (not limited to just power point and excel).
- Align with business stakeholders to identify business impact and opportunities
- Direct the team to gather functional requirements and specifications from current users to identify areas for improvement and/or integration for existing systems.
- Review and improve recommendations for scalable and modular solutions that will help address both current architectural constraints and future architectural improvements
- Owning the “Innovation Forum/Backlog” to manage internally suggested/captured innovation ideas.
- Build up network of external partners which work as catalyst for innovation ideas

Key Accountabilities (2)

- Ensure solutions are designed in line Technology's roadmap and strategic direction.
- Build, maintain, and enhance technology trends to explore features in short time
'- Be an innovation advocate
- Attract, motivate and retain employees at all levels for high performance results
- Conduct knowledge sharing sessions on new technolgy and market trends

Key Accountabilities (3)

Talent development
- Attract, motivate and retain employees
- Develop and train team members to become fully qualified Solution Architects.
- Identify and encourage members to develop and improve
- Train, mentor, and help improve the efficiency of Agile teams, instead of directly specifying solution designs.

Key Relationships - Direct Manager

Head of Enterprise Architecture - Technology

Key Relationships - Direct Reports

Staff of under function

Key Relationships - Internal Stakeholders

Interal units in Division and other Divisions

Key Relationships - External Stakeholders

State agencies (SBV, Technology department…); external Vendors

Success Profile - Qualification and Experiences

Qualifications
- A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering software, or information technology
Work Experience
- Minimum 12 year of experience in implement state-of-the-art solutions in various industries
- Minimum 7 year of experience in management and leading team to execute company's technology strategy
- Working experience in a similar role related to driving change and exploring/managing usage of emerging technologies
- Experience and gained insights on the latest technology trends (e.g. AI/ML, IoT, RPA, Edge Computing, Blockchain, AR/VR)
- Significant experience in various business domains, not only banking
- Hands-on coding experience in various modern programming languages and public cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience in a similar role to lead a small and high-performance creative innovation team
Language level
- English, according to TCB's regulations from time to time