Head of Technology, International Payments, Trade

Head Of Technology, International Payments, Trade & Working Capital

**Head Of Technology, International Payments, Trade & Working Capital**

**Job no**: 793570

**Business unit**: Technology and Enterprise Operations

**Primary position location**: 2 Carrington St, Sydney, NSW

**Work type**: Permanent Full time

**Region**: NSW- Sydney CBD
- **Make a genuine difference through the work you do**:

- **Be rewarded and recognised for the value you bring**:

- **We grow great leaders who inspire and energise their team**

**It's more than a career at NAB. It's about more opportunity, more moments to make a difference and more focus on you.**

Your job is just one part of your life. When you bring your ideas, energy, and hunger for growth to us, you'll be recognised and rewarded for your contribution in return. You'll have our support to excel for our customers, deliver positive change for our communities and grow your career.

It's a good time to see what more you can find at NAB as a **Head of Technology for International Payments, Trade and Working Capital.**

**The role**

As the **Head of Technology, International Payments, Trade & Working Capital**, you will be responsible for:

- Provide technical leadership for the international payments, trade finance & working capital subdomains, accountable for efficient delivery of quality software (EPICS, Features and Stories)
- Ensure the mission critical IT assets supporting the international payments, trade finance & working capital sub-domains are operating efficiently and reliably in Production, are within enterprise risk tolerances and adhere to the Groups Critical Hygiene Framework
- Ensure legal, regulatory, and payments scheme compliance obligations are met, all the time every time
- Relentlessly drive productivity & continuous improvement in all aspects of the technology business
- Manage within given annual financial envelopes - technology operational budgets and change costs in the investment slate
- Provide support to the Executive owning requests, initiatives or other accountabilities that are relevant to BU's and/or the Enterprise
- Lead, coach & mentor technology staff to drive engagement, improved outcomes, retention as well as uplifting skills & knowledge - includes both onshore in Australia and offshore teams.
- Support strategic direction setting, ensuring technology direction is aligned to architectural roadmaps and the objectives/priorities of the Business and the Group overall.
- Drive the implementation of the TBEP workforce strategy - leveraging NAB innovation centres in India & Vietnam
- Drive the modernisation of the technology estate

**The day to day responsibilities will include**:

- Drive technical delivery with a focus on improving speed, cost, and quality outcomes
- Drive alignment of sub-domain software delivery to business and architectural roadmaps
- Be the escalation point for incidents and problems across key services in the portfolio
- Lead the execution of the business unit workforce strategy
- Drive technology workforce planning for the subdomain
- Work with subdomain lead in business to provide inputs into quarterly planning
- Monitor subdomain delivery performance metrics and support with uplift interventions where required

**What you will bring**:

- Demonstrable experience as a senior Payments Technology Leader with extensive experience in changing & operating mission critical systems for a systemic Bank
- Proven Swift scheme, and /or High Value Clearing scheme (HVCS) experience
- Leading annualized delivery portfolio > $50m
- Demonstrated experience in building and leading cross-skilled teams ~100 - 150 staff located across multiple regions
- Proven experience in vendor management
- Strong understanding of technology & software engineering and an awareness of global technology trends
- Experience leading large portfolio delivery in an agile environment
- Strong operational process understanding
- Ability to influence stakeholders across multiple technology topologies
- Strong communication both written and verbal coupled with a strategic mindset and business acumen
- Tertiary qualification(s) in a related discipline such as Information Technology and preferably a post-graduate qualification.

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