Manager - Technology Lifecycle and Resilience in banking domain

Role description

Key responsibilities

• Lead a Technology/Application Lifecycle Management framework covering lifecycle stages, obsolescence, end-of-life risk, governance, escalation paths, and upgrade planning.
• Define lifecycle states, ownership, decision points, escalation paths, and upgrade or remediation planning before vendor end-of-life.
• Lead resilience strategy and target-state architecture, including recovery patterns, failover capabilities, and risk mitigation across applications, infrastructure, data, and cloud.
• Coordinate architecture inputs across technology platforms, IT GRC, DR/Operations, Cyber Security, Procurement, Finance, and application owners.
• Establish governance, traceability, and decision records aligned with EA standards, target states, and review forums.
• Guide resilience and technical architects; consolidate technical outputs into executive strategies and roadmaps.
• Keep operational controls, testing, and evidence production with accountable delivery and platform teams.

Required skills and experience

• 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 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 other highly regulated sector experience is strongly preferred.

Certifications

• TOGAF certification is preferred.
• Other relevant certifications may include ITIL 4, COBIT, PMP/PRINCE2, AWS or Microsoft Azure architecture credentials, and CBCI or equivalent resilience qualification.

Preferred technology and tools

• Preferred technology includes enterprise architecture repositories and modelling standards, application portfolio and CMDB data, hybrid infrastructure and cloud architecture, and resilience and lifecycle management capabilities.
• Named tools and platforms include ServiceNow CMDB/APM, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Power BI, and Microsoft 365.

Deliverables