Managing Director Cloud Advancement

Managing Director Cloud Advancement
ATB Financial, Canada

Experience
1 Year
Salary
0 - 0
Job Type
Job Shift
Job Category
Traveling
No
Career Level
Telecommute
No
Qualification
As mentioned in job details
Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
May 6, 2021
Last Date
Jun 6, 2021
Location(s)

Job Description

Listening to Albertans. Going deeper to understand who they are and where they’re going. Translating the complex world of banking and investing into brilliantly simple solutions. Through all this, we believe we can create happiness. This is the ATB way.

Job Number: REQ1842

Location: Anywhere in Alberta

Apply by: Thursday May 13th, 2021

Paygrade: O-OTH

# Positions available: 1

Reporting to the Associate VP, Technology Enablement Operations, the primary focus of this position is to develop implementation strategies and technical plans for ATB to make best use of the cloud as well as other key strategic technologies that support ATBs business objectives. This role is required to collaborate and provide leadership in enabling Technology, Innovation amp; Engineering (TIE) teams to deliver on transforming banking. As a leader, this role is also required to continuously measure and develop action plans to increase overall Technology Enablement team performance and service levels to meet the needs of the business.

You will find success based on your ability to manage and deliver in the following areas:

  • Risk amp; Governance: Creating the technical plans to ensure risks related to cloud computing are identified and the appropriate technical strategy is outlined for execution among the other Technology Enablement teams. In addition, working as a conduit with the ATB Enterprise Risk Management and TIE Business Management teams to educate and understand current and contemplated future technical implementations.
  • Networking: Developing the necessary strategies, plans and validation steps to ensure effective networking is established to allow ATB team members to make best use of the implemented cloud services, from virtually anywhere, with virtually any devices
  • Banking Systems: Developing the strategy to ensure effective move of the ATB Banking Systems to the cloud with a focus on ensuring ATB is future proofed as much as possible and can take best advantage of the cloud offerings. This will include detailed architecture for cloning and / or provisioning non production systems to aid in ensuring system reliability.
  • Security: Working with the Chief Information Security Officer Team to ensure key security considerations are included in architecture planning and delivery execution and that security controls / mechanisms are regularly validated for effectiveness.
  • Practice continuous improvement with respect to process development, documentation, maintenance, and adherence to ensure the department aligns with industry leading practices.
  • Actively negotiate and manage statements of work and /or service contracts with third-party vendors to ensure compliance and quality. Provide recommendations for contract approval to Technology Enablement senior Leadership, as required.
  • Overseeing support activities in conjunction with other TIE teams to ensure the applications perform well in production and have technology governance plans in place.
  • Ensure the effective operations of ATB’s cloud operations, particularly within the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment for Iaas and PaaS operations.
  • Implementation, oversight and management of Cloud Native Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts to support modern Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, including the respect tools supporting the pipelines.
  • Ensuring disaster recovery amp; business continuity plans are implemented and regularly tested to support ATB’s business needs.
  • Be the champion for ATB’s organizational technology adoption efforts related to tools for ATB team members.
  • Working closely with the Technology Strategy amp; Architecture team to understand future direction and applicability to Technology Enablement.

Requirements

  • At least 15 years technical experience in a complex technical environment with 24x7x365 operations, and particularly with the financial services industry. Experience including all aspects of technology, including networking, computing infrastructure, major ERP systems, cloud, etc.
  • Recognized Business and / or Information Technology Management degree required.
  • At least 7 years architecture experience with mission critical systems, in particular financial services systems (i.e. core banking)
  • Proven success with cloud migration activities from on-premise co-location environments to hyperscale cloud providers.
  • Experience in leverage Agile Principles and Methodologies for operations / foundational technologies implementation and delivery, with a particular focus to the SCRUM methodology.
  • Understanding of cloud-native collaboration platforms (i.e. Google Workspace) to stay connected with teams.
  • Extensive experience in developing strategies for centralized governance constructs for technolog

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