Wealth Management Platform Lead

Wealth Management Platform Lead
Location: Middle East (No specific location) Experience: 12+ Years in Banking and Financial Services technology -5+ Years in Wealth Management. Budget: As per Market standard No of openings: 4 Availability: 15 days
Role Purpose
The Wealth Management Platform Lead will be responsible for the end-to-end ownership of the Bank’s Wealth Management platform, ensuring stability, scalability, security, regulatory compliance, and continuous enhancement of the platform. The role requires a strong blend of Wealth Management domain expertise, technical leadership, stakeholder management, vendor governance, and delivery ownership across both Run-the-Bank (RTB) and Change-the-Bank (CTB) initiatives.
Key Responsibilities & Skills
• Own and manage the Wealth Management platform roadmap, strategy, operational stability, and technology modernization initiatives.
• Act as the single point of accountability for platform availability, performance, security, and service quality.
• Possess strong functional knowledge of Wealth Management processes, including Portfolio Management, Investment Products, Advisory Services and Client Onboarding
• 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, support effectiveness, and agreed service levels.
• 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 to reduce manual effort and improve reliability.
• Manage platform performance, capacity planning, and future scalability requirements.
• Provide regular platform health updates, project status reports, risk assessments, and executive-level communications.
• Build and lead high-performing support and delivery teams while fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
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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