Manager - Technology Lifecycle and Resilience

Experience

• Minimum 12 years in enterprise or solution architecture, technology strategy, or architecture governance.
• Experience includes leadership of complex cross-platform initiatives in regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a Technology/Application Lifecycle Management framework focused on application lifecycle, technology obsolescence, and end-of-life risk governance.
• Define lifecycle states, accountabilities, decision points, escalation paths, and advance planning for upgrades and remediation.
• Lead the Enterprise Architecture contribution to enterprise resilience strategy and target-state architecture to improve recoverability and reduce failover constraints.
• Align lifecycle governance and resilience architecture across obsolescence, recoverability, and resilience risks.
• Coordinate inputs from Technology Platforms, IT GRC, DR/Operations, Cyber Security, Procurement, Finance, and application owners.
• Establish architecture governance, traceability, and decision records aligned to EA standards, target states, and review forums.
• Guide the Resilience Architect / Technical Architect and consolidate technical outputs into an executive strategy and roadmap.
• Lead strategy, architecture, and governance; accountable delivery and platform teams retain operational implementation, testing, and evidence production.

Required Skills

• Deep experience in enterprise architecture, technology strategy, application portfolio management, and lifecycle governance.
• Strong understanding of technology obsolescence, vendor end-of-support risk, investment planning, and architecture governance.
• Experience shaping enterprise resilience strategies and target-state architectures across applications, infrastructure, data, integration, and cloud.
• Ability to establish pragmatic governance frameworks, RACI models, control points, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong executive communication, cross-functional leadership, facilitation, and decision-paper writing skills.
• Banking, financial services, or another highly regulated sector experience is strongly preferred.

Key Deliverables

Certifications and Technical Requirements

• TOGAF certification is preferred.
• Additional relevant credentials may include ITIL 4, COBIT, PMP/PRINCE2, AWS or Microsoft Azure architecture credentials, and CBCI or equivalent resilience qualification.
• Relevant environment includes enterprise architecture repositories and modelling standards, application portfolio and CMDB data, hybrid infrastructure and cloud architecture, and resilience and lifecycle management capabilities.
• Tools and platforms include ServiceNow CMDB/APM, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Power BI, and Microsoft 365.