Software engineering Director 3 (Core Banking Platforms

Head Of Core Banking Platforms – Hogan & Zafin

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The Head of Core Banking Platforms – Hogan & Zafin is responsible for the strategy, delivery, and operational excellence of the bank's core Hogan deposit platform and Zafin product/pricing platform. These systems form the backbone of the bank's deposit, product, pricing, and customer account ecosystem, supporting millions of accounts and high-volume transactions 24/7. The role demands enterprise-scale leadership, ensuring always-on platform performance and data integrity, while spearheading large-scale modernization and transformation initiatives (such as API enablement, event-driven architecture, and mainframe optimization).

This leader will drive a strong risk and control discipline and talent development agenda, engaging across business and technology to shape the future of core banking platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Platform Strategy & Ownership:
  Provide end-to-end strategic leadership and accountability for the Hogan core banking and Zafin pricing platforms, covering deposit processing, customer master data, rates, fees, billing, and rewards.
• Operational Resilience:
  Ensure 24x7 platform stability, resiliency, security, and data integrity across real-time, batch, and event-driven processing environments. Oversee rigorous incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement to meet or exceed SLA and uptime targets.
• Modernization & Innovation:
  Drive core platform modernization efforts (e.g., API enablement, event streaming integration, mainframe optimization) to improve agility and scalability while maintaining seamless service for customers.
• Leadership & Team Development:
  Lead, mentor, and transform a global engineering organization (~150–200 engineers and partner resources), fostering a high-performance culture of accountability, inclusion, and engineering excellence.
• Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Engagement:
  Partner closely with Product, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Finance, and Audit teams to align platform capabilities with business goals. Ensure strong risk management and regulatory compliance, and serve as a key escalation point during high-impact platform issues.
• Vendor & Financial Management:
  Manage third-party vendor relationships (e.g., core system providers), negotiate contracts and commercial outcomes, and oversee budget and resource allocation, balancing "run" operations with strategic "change" investments.
• Executive Communication:
  Regularly report on platform health, performance, and risk to senior leadership and governance forums. Articulate technology strategy, key risks, and mitigation plans in clear business terms for executive and board-level audiences.

Basic Skills

- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience - 12 or more years of relevant software engineering experience - Eight or more years of experience leading multiple software engineering teams

Preferred

Skills:

• Extensive Leadership Experience in technology, with 10+ years in financial services leading large-scale, mission-critical platforms. Proven success managing large global engineering teams (100+ staff) and operating at an executive (SVP/Director) level.
• Core Banking Expertise:
  Deep knowledge of core banking systems (deposits, pricing, rates, fees) and high-volume transaction processing. Experience with Hogan mainframe-based cores and Zafin or similar Tier-1 banking platforms strongly preferred.
• Operational & Risk Excellence:
  Demonstrated ability to ensure 24x7 system availability and operational rigor in highly regulated environments. Adept at incident response, root-cause analysis, and risk management, with a strong…