Team Head

Job Mandate

• Ensure high quality and timely delivery of all projects of the team and oversee upkeep of the platforms owned by the unit

• Develop a full understanding of how the team works and orchestrate applicable processes across other teams as needed

• Manage technical escalations and resolutions

• Bring technical leadership and direction to issues and risks troubleshooting to minimize impact, in line with Cloud Technologies.

Duties and Responsibilities

Accountability to ITG

• Share the delegated responsibility of the head, and own full accountability for delivery in the assigned team/section

• Work closely with other units/counterparties across ITG to ensure seamless delivery

• Enforce adherence to IT SDLC and Governance structure

• Work with business stakeholders on developing cloud related strategies, approach and roadmaps

• Work cross-functionally with design and technology teams to ensure timely and quality release of products, services,

enhancements in line with Cloud technologies

Accountability to PIP/Business

• Ensure that there is a good understanding of the business unit’s strategic direction

• Ensure alignment of strategies with BDO architecture

• Ensure that the right people are assigned to each project in order to ensure proper support, validation of scope,

requirements development, and delivery ownership

• Manage all escalation from business unit and PIP team

Accountability to Unit:

• Take accountability of the quality of technical deliverables for the team

• Plan for and manage the team’s capacity, and ensure appropriate and sufficient staffing of the team

• Ensure adequate competency in technical team members

• Identify and optimize how resources can be leveraged across delivery teams

• Ensure timely escalation of issues

• Act as point of technical escalation for all delivery team leads and team members.

• Ensure adequate and appropriate level of support by defining competencies, providing training, and providing team

members with adequate experience and exposure

• Conduct performance reviews for team members

• Monitor project progress and recommend changes as necessary

• Ensure compliance with objectives, organizational policies, procedures, standards and best practices

• Technical reviews on application, system, data and solution architectures identifying potential issues/risks and makes

recommendations

• Assists in selecting and on-going management of vendors/ suppliers for supporting selected projects

• Ensure operational support processes are aligned with the business objectives and stated business requirements

Minimum Qualification Requirements

Education Bachelor’s degree relevant to the job

Work Experience

• 15 or more years of delivery experience in the financial services industry

• 10 or more years of experience in managing complex projects involving the

implementation of digital or online-transaction solutions

• Experienced in handling vendor and third-party SI engagements

• Experience working on front-end applications that run financial transactions with

3rd party applications

• Experience with IT and digital transformations within the Financial Services industry

Job Description

• Experience with writing/vetting vendor engagement documents (non-disclosure

agreements, statements of work, contract).

Knowledge Area

• Experience in leading technical cloud practice and solutions, infra and cloud

delivery in public cloud and private cloud technologies

• Experience in defining Cloud Architecture Standards, including documenting and

enforcing guidelines

• Experience in driving infra/cloud related projects, including FinOps and

transformation and migration

• Experience in designing and building enterprise scale landing zone blueprints in

alignment with cloud adoption, industry best practices and WAF (Well Architected

Framework), including exposure on IaC and CI/CD

• Experience in different cloud platforms, Containerization & Orchestration, IaC,

DevSecOps & Automation, Cloud Security, Performance Monitoring &

Optimization

• Has a drive and passion in monitoring market cloud technology trends

• Technology background with good understanding of software and vendor

landscapes

• Good practical knowledge of developing Work Breakdown Structures (WBS),

risk/issue management, dependency management, vendor management and

business/IT stakeholder management

Skills

• Conversant with different project management frameworks (e.g. Scrum, PMP,

Kanban)

• Possess strong problems solving and prioritization skills

• Excellent written/ verbal communication skills

BDO Unibank, Inc. provides equal opportunity to all qualified candidates. Hiring decisions are based on job requirements and candidate qualifications, and shall not be influenced by any consideration  of race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), national or ethnic origin, or disability.                                                                                                                       Requisition ID: 22054