Head of Function Value Streams

Job Description

Head of Application Workstreams Financial Services London (hybrid remote)

#TeamCandour have partnered with a thriving global financial services player to source an accomplished Head of Applications to join their growing team working out of their London offices on a hybrid basis.

As a Senior Leader with the Technology function you will report directly to the UK CTO with responsibility for 4 X Product Managers and their associated workstreams.

Responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with function leadership teams in setting and driving the business outcomes to ensure they support the group technology goals to Simplify Protect and Enable the business
• Providing effective and proactive support and expertise to programmes and projects creating innovative and actionable plans and optimising solution delivery
• Interpret and contextualise business requirements into actionable technology roadmaps with welldefined benefits and cost requirements
• In conjunction with the Head of Architecture develop and execute product strategies aligned with overall goals and objectives to ensure consistency and quality of solutions
• Support the endtoend product development process including ideation requirements gathering prioritisation and roadmap creation
• Lead advocate and drive adoption of best practices to ensure the standardisation of outputs across the core function value streams
• Support the planning and of new product/feature launches ensuring effective messaging scheduling and monitoring of metrics to drive improvements and satisfaction
• Lead and manage a team of Product Managers fostering a collaborative and highperforming culture within the team and providing guidance mentorship and development opportunities
• Advise the value stream teams on performance scalability reliability availability and other operational concerns to define appropriate metrics and KPIs

Required skills:

• Strategic thinking: Strong analytical skills and complex problem solving as well as having the ability to communicate a clear product vision and set of business objectives is parament to the success of this role.
• Leadership: Ability to inspire technical teams to proactively find solutions focus on continuous improvement and remove blockers is also an essential quality for the this role. Demonstrate ownership and accountability for all applications and systems by following through on demands and supporting issues through to resolution.
• Communication & stakeholder management: The role requires a strong ability to communicate effectively and to influence at all levels of the organisation. The role is a key business partner for our core functions so the successful candidate needs to be able to manage competing priorities as well as being adept at building relationships and trust and being able to guide and influence stakeholders through technical solutions.
• Programme management: Comfortable leading internal and external teams working with both traditional methodologies and modern agile methodologies in a multifaceted application estate with a wide range of technologies. Being able to switch between topics and work in a fast paced environment where decisions must be made quickly is imperative.
• Technical Capabilities: Indepth understanding of core business processes and related tools and technologies deep understanding of Agile principles and processes experience working in value streams and product development.

Required experience:

• Significant number of years in a senior Technology leadership role coupled with extensive senior stakeholder engagement experience and commercial/financial awareness
• Significant number of years in a team management role providing coaching and mentoring and leveraging competencies/capabilities across the team to achieve overall business outcomes
• Proven experience developing product roadmaps prioritising in accordance with strategic business objectives with a focus on customer experience
• Experience managing Cloud/SaaS applications APIs and legacy applications with a strong understanding on how to migrate towards being a digital cloud and APIdriven capability
• Experience with the evaluation and selection of new technologies based to validate if a considered technology is capable of delivering against the requirements
• Experience implementing operational processes improvements through automation and/or process design/redesign
• Experience in cost optimisation through third party and operating model rationalisation programmes
• Strong knowledge and experience of build deployment change and release processes and automation

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