VP Technology-Corporate Payments, Liquidity & VA.Injaz - Tech - Head - GTB.MIT

Job Purpose

Strategy and Transformation

• Define the Oracle Banking technology roadmap and align it with digital transformation and business growth objectives.
• Lead modernization using APIs, cloud readiness, microservices, automation, and digital payment technologies.
• Drive implementation, rollout, upgrade, migration, and transformation programs for OBP, OBLM, and OBVAM.
• Ensure successful delivery of multi-country and multi-entity banking transformation initiatives.

Architecture and Delivery

• Oversee solution architecture, design, integration, testing, deployment, production stabilization, and end-to-end requirements traceability.
• Manage the Corporate, GTB, and Payments book of work and prioritize requirements with business and transformation stakeholders.
• Ensure delivery meets timelines, budgets, quality standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Manage risks, dependencies, budgets, vendors, resources, testing, release management, and change management.

Payments and Banking Domain

• Provide expertise across domestic low-value fast payments, domestic high-value payments, cross-border payments, salary payments, vendor payments, and funds transfers.
• Lead liquidity-management capabilities including standing instructions, sweeps, and pools.
• Drive straight-through processing, payment automation, operational resilience, customer experience, and high-volume real-time payment performance.
• Support emerging payment infrastructures and industry standards.

Stakeholder and Governance Leadership

• Partner with GTB leadership, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Finance, Information Security, Architecture, vendors, system integrators, and regulators.
• Act as primary technology advisor for business transformation initiatives and manage executive steering committees.
• Establish architecture standards, delivery governance, project controls, quality assurance, and regulatory readiness.
• Develop technology talent, succession plans, high-performing teams, and a culture of innovation and accountability.

Compliance and Resilience

• Ensure Oracle Banking platforms comply with local requirements for payments, funds transfer, AML, KYC, sanctions screening, data privacy, and operational risk.
• Ensure adherence to information security, cyber security, technology risk, audit, and internal control frameworks.
• Support internal, external, and regulatory audits and maintain platform availability, resilience, scalability, and disaster recovery readiness.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 20 or more years of progressive banking and financial services experience.
• At least 15 years leading enterprise-scale banking technology programs.
• Extensive Oracle Banking implementation experience across multiple institutions.
• Proven delivery of Oracle payment solutions and large-scale transformation programs.
• Experience managing multi-million-dollar technology initiatives and geographically distributed teams.
• Strong exposure to regulatory environments in the UAE, GCC, Asia, and other global markets.

Mandatory Oracle Product Skills

• OBP 14.x and FLEXCUBE 11.x/12.x Corporate Payment modules.
• OBLM 14.x.
• OBVAM 14.x.
• Implementation experience across payments, funds transfer, remittances, cash management, GTB, corporate banking, liquidity, virtual accounts, API banking, and enterprise integration.

Technical and Leadership Competencies

• Enterprise solution architecture, banking application architecture, cloud and hybrid architecture, APIs, middleware, SOA, microservices, and database technologies.
• Performance optimization, high availability, disaster recovery, information security, cyber security, and data privacy.
• Strategic technology leadership, executive stakeholder management, people leadership, coaching, mentoring, negotiation, and decision-making.
• Relevant Oracle and enterprise architecture certifications are advantageous.