Head of Technology Governance and Program Management

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About the role

  • Head of Technology Governance managing transformation and risk initiatives for State Street across the GTS organization. Collaborating with leadership for compliance and accountability in technology governance.

Responsibilities

  • Provide independent program execution to all the technology regulatory and risk transformation initiatives across the GTS organization managing interdependencies, critical path item management and ensuring success criteria is met by the required milestones while delivering against a strategic end-state
  • Collaborate closely with the CIO leadership team and second and third line teams and country leaders to ensure there is clear alignment and escalation management on all items
  • Manage dependencies across programs to ensure no surprises come up and outcomes across a variety of sources and jurisdiction can be achieved through the most effective manner
  • Provide clear and succinct reporting in alignment with standards set by the CAO office to organizational committees such as CRC, TRC and TORC as well as regulators and BRG and other board committees as required
  • Manage some senior managers that will directly be responsible to turn gap findings into effective remediation plans as well as manage some of those horizontal risk and governance transformation items directly while providing governance to over program managers that exist across the organization
  • Manage resources who will ensure continuity of program management and detailed execution planning from findings and next steps that come out of programs to ensure effective remediation plans are in place, and the necessary resourcing across full-time and consulting resources are in place to execute commitments and align items to existing programs

Requirements

  • Minimum of 10+ years of related experience within the financial services industry including time spent managing in an executive capacity
  • Demonstrated experience managing complex transformation / remediation programs
  • Relevant regulated financial service expertise, with an understanding of challenges of running a large-scale Technology transformation program
  • Managed cross-border teams based over multiple locations, additional points for experience with strong connectivity to the regulators
  • Extensive experience in managing large, complex third parties, who are critical to the success of the program
  • Bachelors / Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field or relevant work experience is highly preferred
  • Experience with US regulations as well as a strong working level of knowledge of European and Asia Pacific regulations
  • Extensive, in-depth relevant experience in program management, including experience of leading multi-year, cross-functional or enterprise-wide programs
  • Exceptional understanding of standards-based program management and business analysis practices (Agile/Six-Sigma/Lean), with demonstrable skills in program and project management tools and methodologies
  • Strong project planning skills and expertise in large, complex program management, across multiple work-streams; releases and complex data migrations
  • Extensive background in executing change; understanding of the regulatory landscape and emerging themes is highly preferred.

Benefits

  • inclusive development opportunities
  • flexible work-life support
  • paid volunteer days
  • vibrant employee networks

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

OnsiteTorontoCanada

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