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Director & Senior Technology Officer, Global Wealth Planning, Wealth Management Technology
BMO Financial Group
Ontario Toronto, , Canada
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MANDATE
The Director & Senior Technology Officer (STO) acts as relationship manager to Wealth Management Line of business. As a senior member of the Technology Relationship Manager’s (TRM) leadership team, the Director & STO is accountable for the financial management of up to $25 million technology budget spend. The job incumbent manages a technology group that is accountable for on-time, on-budget delivery of quality solutions which includes analysis, design, development, implementation, and support of applications to ensure and/or maintain alignment with IT strategies from multiple LOBs, and adhering to standards, such as Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
ACCOUNTABILITIES
• Reviews, approves, and provides technical expert guidance on the Operational Vision (or business case) and application architecture, as prepared by the Senior Business Consultant and/or Senior Business Technology Specialist and/or Application Software Development Manager, to ensure that they are aligned with Enterprise standards and that they are appropriate in satisfying the technical strategy and design for the business partners
• Identifies opportunities and provides recommendations to senior management, executives and business partners. This may involve creating a common framework or introducing new technologies, which ultimately contributes to improved efficiency, cost reduction, application stability, accessibility, et cetera
• Oversees the completion of project deliverables by providing appropriate approvals, guidance, and resources for the development teams. This helps ensure optimal quality of the applications while delivering a solution that is aligned with the business strategy
• Provides solutions to complex technical issues to ensure the optimal solution is recommended to the Technology Relationship Manager and business partners and communicates complex technical strategies and design to senior management, executives, and business partners to gain their support and/or approval of the recommended approach
• Prioritizes and optimizes development teams activities for multiple initiatives of varying complexity in order to meet business partner demands and priorities while maintaining defined Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and technical stewardship over platform applications
• Creates proper planning process (e.g., development of a pandemic plan and development of a Business Continuity Plan) to ensure performance, availability, and problem recovery of platform applications in achieving the agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Reviews and approves the selection of development, testing, and implementation tools, as determined from the collaboration between the Application Software Development staff and the three relevant development support groups, Development Technology Services [DTS] or Development Support, Infrastructure group, and Enterprise Architecture, and evaluates the selection from a financial and productivity perspective in order to provide final approval of the tool selection
• Liaises with third party vendors on contract negotiations and understands and validates the vendor technical architectures to ensure they are aligned with the Enterprise standards or, at minimum, are well understood by employees and have the necessary approvals from governing bodies within the Enterprise
• Provides project governance, and interacts and collaborates with team members and other departments when appropriate, to define accountabilities, communicate the status of work items, and discuss barriers to the delivery of work
• Collaborates with Account Managers in creating, managing, and overseeing the investment plan (IPlan) and manages financials to ensure that they fall within the approved fiscal year plan
• Provides managerial leadership to managers, staff, Senior Business Consultants, and Senior Business Technology Specialists, which includes structuring development teams, holding regular two-way meetings, setting context, building staff development plans, providing feedback on performance evaluations, mentoring, and coaching, in order to create and maintain high performing teams
Knowledge:
• Possesses a university degree/college diploma in applied technologies and/or 12+ years experience in state-of-the-art financial application development with expert business knowledge
• Possesses expert project management experience
• Possesses extensive practical experience in application development and/or business partner solution delivery
• Demonstrates expert knowledge of design and analysis methodology and application development processes from both an industry and BMO perspective
• Exhibits expert understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Quality Assurance requirements, and software development control and release procedures
• Demonstrates expert understanding of emerging technologies and industry directions
Skills:
• Possesses expert communication skills, both written and verbal
• Demonstrates expert leadership/people management skills
• Demonstrates advanced relationship management and coaching skills
• Is able to translate broad, strategic intent into short term plans
• Possesses an expert ability to manage multiple projects high in complexity and of strategic importance
• Is capable of resolving diverse, complex, and ambiguous issues and situations
• Is able to manage change
• Is able to work independently
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