Manager - Technology Lifecycle and Resilience in banking domain

We have an urgent requirement for Manager - Technology Lifecycle and Resilience in banking domain (Must) is required for our banking clients in Abu Dhabi ,UAE

• Lead the design and implementation of a Technology/Application Lifecycle Management framework, covering application lifecycle stages, technology obsolescence, end-of-life risk management, governance models, escalation paths, and upgrade planning.
  
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• Define and drive the enterprise resilience strategy and target-state architecture, establishing resilience principles, recovery patterns, failover capabilities, and risk mitigation approaches across applications, infrastructure, data, and cloud environments.
  
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• Coordinate cross-functional teams including Enterprise Architecture, Technology Platforms, IT GRC, Cyber Security, Operations, Procurement, Finance, and Application Owners to ensure alignment between lifecycle governance, resilience objectives, and business priorities.
  
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• Establish architecture governance, decision records, control frameworks, and executive-level roadmaps, while guiding architects and ensuring alignment with EA standards, target-state architecture, investment planning, and long-term resilience objectives.
  
  --Must Banking Domain --Must

• Lead the definition of a Technology/Application Lifecycle Management framework, with emphasis on application lifecycle, technology obsolescence and end-of-life risk governance.
• Define lifecycle states, governance accountabilities, decision points, escalation paths and forward-planning controls for upgrades and remediation ahead of vendor end-of-life.
• Lead the Enterprise Architecture contribution to the enterprise resilience strategy and target-state resilience architecture, including the principles and patterns required to improve recoverability and reduce failover constraints.
• Align lifecycle governance and resilience architecture so that obsolescence, recoverability and resilience risks are considered consistently across the two work streams.
• Coordinate architecture inputs from Technology Platforms, IT GRC, DR/Operations, Cyber Security, Procurement, Finance and application owners.
• Establish architecture governance, traceability and decision records for the two work streams, including alignment to EA standards, target states and review forums.
• Guide the Resilience Architect / Technical Architect and consolidate technical outputs into an executive-level strategy and roadmap.
• Maintain the EA boundary: lead strategy, architecture and governance while operational control implementation, testing and evidence production remain with accountable delivery and platform teams.

• 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.
• Experience in banking, financial services or another highly regulated sector is strongly preferred.

• Technology/Application Lifecycle Management framework covering lifecycle stages, technology obsolescence and end-of-life risk governance.
• Defined lifecycle taxonomy, governance model, ownership model, control points and escalation approach.
• Forward-planning approach for identifying and budgeting upgrades or remediation before vendor end-of-life.
• Enterprise resilience strategy and target-state resilience architecture, including architecture principles, patterns, priorities and transition considerations.
• Integrated roadmap, dependencies and governance plan across the lifecycle and resilience work streams.
• Architecture decision records, executive updates and governance submissions supporting implementation and ongoing governance.

Preferred: TOGAF certification. Additional relevant certifications may include ITIL 4, COBIT, PMP/PRINCE2, AWS or Microsoft Azure architecture credentials, and CBCI or equivalent resilience qualification.

Enterprise architecture repository and modelling standards; application portfolio and CMDB data; hybrid infrastructure and cloud architecture;…