KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and maintain the core banking systems strategy for the bank, aligning it with the overall enterprise architecture goals and business objectives. This includes defining and establishing principles, standards, best practices and guidelines for integrating core banking systems, applications and data across the organization.
• Identify gaps and inefficiencies in the existing core banking landscape and propose innovative solutions by defining and managing the evolution of core banking platforms to support new products, services and customer experiences.
• Design and document the target-state architecture for core banking applications, considering scalability, security, resilience and regulatory compliance.
• Participate in the evaluation core banking platforms, third-party solutions and conduct proof-of-concepts (POCs) on emerging technologies and their application in the core banking landscape. 
• Through collaboration with middleware and API teams ensure seamless integration of core banking applications with surrounding ecosystems including digital channels, payments, risk management, regulatory reporting and reporting systems.
• Enable data-driven decision-making by ensuring core banking applications effectively support data platforms and analytics initiatives
• Support enhancement business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery (DR) practice and strategies for core banking systems.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development and implementation teams throughout the development lifecycle for core banking applications. This includes identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and drive initiatives to enhance system performance and reliability
• Participate in incident response and troubleshooting for major core banking system issues, review and validation of RCAs and design of solutions for resolution.
• Address the accrued technical debt and develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for all applications in the core banking domain.
• Contribute to the bank's digital transformation initiatives by architecting future ready solutions that enable the actualization of the Business strategy.