The Vice President – Microservices & Transformation provides strategic leadership and engineering governance for the Retail Banking Group’s microservices ecosystem within Retail Technology. This role drives the bank’s digital transformation by modernizing microservices architectures, standardizing engineering practices, and fostering continuous platform improvement. It ensures that all microservices-based solutions are scalable, secure, and future-ready, aligned with evolving business priorities and digital objectives. By guiding modernization efforts, platform enhancements, and engineering excellence, the role strengthens system resilience, accelerates development agility, and enables faster, high-quality delivery across the Retail Technology landscape.
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Location: United Arab Emirates
Responsibilities:
- Microservice Strategy & Roadmap: Define and drive the microservices strategy and roadmap for Retail Digital, ensuring alignment with business objectives, modernization goals, and digital transformation initiatives.
- Transformation Initiatives: Provide strategic and technical leadership on modernization initiatives, guiding the re-engineering of legacy applications, migration to cloud-native and microservices-based architectures.
- Engineering Leadership: Provide architectural and engineering leadership for new and enhanced solutions across Retail Technology, particularly microservices-based platforms.
- Digital Platform Enhancements: Review and provide strategic guidance on platform enhancement initiatives across digital systems.
- Innovation & Future-readiness: Continuously evaluate and adopt new frameworks, tools, and cloud-native technologies to ensure Retail Technology platforms remain agile and future-ready.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with Chapter Leads, Solution Architects, DevOps, and SRE teams to ensure standardization, consistency, and reusability of services and platforms.
- Engineering Standardization: Champion and drive engineering standardization and platform improvement initiatives, promoting uniformity, quality, and operational excellence across squads.
- Incident Leadership: Provide technical guidance on high-impact production incidents across Retail applications built on microservices architecture.
Required Skills:
Knowledge:
- Deep understanding of microservices architecture and cloud-native platforms.
- Strong knowledge of Retail Banking applications, including operational, technical, and regulatory requirements.
- Familiarity with engineering governance, platform standardization, and security frameworks.
- Awareness of emerging technologies and frameworks relevant to modernization and operational efficiency.
Skills:
- Strategic and technical leadership with the ability to guide multiple squads and cross-functional teams.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills in complex, multi-system environments.
- Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration skills.
- Effective communication skills, able to translate technical strategy into business impact.
- Capability to drive innovation, standardization, and continuous improvement.
- Competence in risk assessment and operational resilience for high-availability systems.
Experience:
- 15+ years in software application design and development, including 5+ years leading engineering teams within Retail Banking Technology.
- Proven track record in modernizing legacy platforms and implementing scalable digital solutions.
- Experience in managing cross-functional teams and collaborating with architects, DevOps, and business stakeholders.
