Start date: ASAP
Duration: 3 Months
Location: Remote
Rate: Flexible and negotiable.
Role Purpose
Migration to Next Gen Platform - Executing the vision and delivering the business case. They are building a high-impact team for a new strategic initiative and are seeking to fill a critical leadership role externally. They are looking for a senior, technically grounded leader who can operate at the C-suite level and help shape and steer a complex platform strategy from inception through mobilisation. Experience in the Financial Services Industry (FSI) is essential. Exposure to Wealth Management is highly desirable and will be considered a strong differentiator.
Key Responsibilities
- Define the platform vision, value proposition, and success metrics aligned with business strategy and regulatory needs.
- Ensure the platform supports scalability, delivery velocity, and future integration. C-Suite Engagement & Orchestration
- Engage with executive sponsors and functional heads to align platform strategy with organisational goals.
- Facilitate cross-functional decisions across risk, compliance, operations, and architecture.
- Lead early discovery phases, clarify scope, and structure the delivery approach.
- Shape hypotheses, validate assumptions, and define value streams for early investment.
- Embed product principles into platform design with a focus on developer experience, reuse, and time-to value.
- Prioritise features and enablers based on risk, urgency, and clarity of outcome.
- Proven experience in platform strategy leadership at enterprise scale.
- Deep understanding of FSI regulatory and operational landscapes.
- Strong product mindset with a focus on value, usability, and long-term viability.
- Ability to orchestrate across business, architecture, and engineering stakeholders.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to anticipate scaling needs and regulatory constraints.
- Commercially astute with technical fluency to influence investment cases and define MVPs.
- Calm, credible, and outcome-driven; able to build trust quickly with senior stakeholders.
- Experience in the Financial Services Industry (FSI) is essential.
- Exposure to Wealth Management is highly desirable and will be considered a strong differentiator.
