Wealth Management Platform Lead - Dubai
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About the Role
A banking client is seeking a Wealth Management Platform Lead with 12+ years of experience to own the end-to-end platform roadmap, stability, and modernization. The role requires strong domain knowledge in wealth management processes and technical expertise in platforms like Avaloq, Temenos Wealth, or FNZ.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Own and manage the Wealth Management platform roadmap, strategy, operational stability, and technology modernization initiatives
- Act as single point of accountability for platform availability, performance, security, and service quality
- Lead all production support activities, ensuring timely resolution of incidents, root cause analysis, and problem management
- Drive platform enhancements, upgrades, regulatory changes, integrations, and new business initiatives
- Work closely with Business, Operations, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Vendor teams
- Define and monitor platform KPIs, SLAs, availability metrics, incident trends, and performance indicators
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline
- 12+ years of experience in Banking and Financial Services technology
- Minimum 5 years of experience managing Wealth Management applications or platforms
- Proven experience managing both production support (RTB) and transformation/delivery initiatives (CTB)
- Strong stakeholder management skills with ability to engage senior business leaders, technology teams, and vendors
- Experience with Wealth Management platforms such as Avaloq, Temenos Wealth, or FNZ
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Role Purpose
- The Wealth Management Platform Lead will be responsible for end to end ownership of the Bank’s Wealth Management platform, ensuring stability, scalability, security, regulatory compliance, and continuous enhancement.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and manage the Wealth Management platform roadmap, strategy, operational stability, and technology modernization initiatives.
- Act as single point of accountability for platform availability, performance, security, and service quality.
- Lead all production support activities, ensuring timely resolution of incidents, root cause analysis, problem management, and service improvements.
- Drive platform enhancements, upgrades, regulatory changes, integrations, and new business initiatives.
- Work closely with Business, Operations, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Vendor teams to deliver business outcomes.
- Define and monitor platform KPIs, SLAs, availability metrics, incident trends, and performance indicators.
- Establish strong vendor governance and ensure vendors are accountable for delivery quality and support effectiveness.
- Review and challenge solution designs to ensure they are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
- Lead platform upgrades, patching activities, vulnerability remediation, disaster recovery testing, and technology refresh initiatives.
- Ensure all audit, compliance, risk, and regulatory observations are addressed within agreed timelines.
- Drive automation initiatives and operational efficiency improvements.
- Manage platform performance, capacity planning, and future scalability requirements.
Technical Competencies
- Strong experience with Wealth Management platforms such as Avaloq, Temenos Wealth, or FNZ.
- Strong understanding of Wealth Management application architecture and ecosystem integrations.
- Experience in API based integrations, middleware technologies, enterprise integration patterns, and microservices architecture.
- Good understanding of Oracle/SQL databases, application servers, cloud technologies, and infrastructure concepts.
- Experience managing application security, vulnerability remediation, disaster recovery, and business continuity requirements.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, release management, monitoring, and observability tools.
Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 12+ years of experience in Banking and Financial Services technology.
- Minimum 5 years of experience managing Wealth Management applications or platforms.
- Proven experience managing both production support (RTB) and transformation/delivery initiatives (CTB).
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage senior business leaders, technology teams, and vendors.
- Demonstrated experience managing critical banking platforms in a fast paced environment.
Leadership Attributes
- Strong ownership mindset with end to end accountability.
- Ability to challenge vendors and solution proposals constructively.
- Outcome driven and customer centric approach.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
- Ability to deliver results under tight timelines and resource constraints.
- Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on automation, simplification, and operational excellence.
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