Wealth Management Platform Lead

Location: Middle East (No specific location) Experience: 12+ Years in Banking and Financial Services technology -5+ Years in Wealth Management. Budget: As per Market standard No of openings: 4 Availability: 15 days

Role Purpose The Wealth Management Platform Lead will be responsible for the end-to-end ownership of the Bank’s Wealth Management platform, ensuring stability, scalability, security, regulatory compliance, and continuous enhancement of the platform. The role requires a strong blend of Wealth Management domain expertise, technical leadership, stakeholder management, vendor governance, and delivery ownership across both Run-the-Bank (RTB) and Change-the-Bank (CTB) initiatives.

Key Responsibilities & Skills

- Own and manage the Wealth Management platform roadmap, strategy, operational stability, and technology modernization initiatives.
- Act as the single point of accountability for platform availability, performance, security, and service quality.
- Possess strong functional knowledge of Wealth Management processes, including Portfolio Management, Investment Products, Advisory Services and Client Onboarding
- Lead all production support activities, ensuring timely resolution of incidents, root cause analysis, problem management, and service improvements.
- Drive platform enhancements, upgrades, regulatory changes, integrations, and new business initiatives.
- Work closely with Business, Operations, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Vendor teams to deliver business outcomes.
- Define and monitor platform KPIs, SLAs, availability metrics, incident trends, and performance indicators.




- Establish solid vendor governance and ensure vendors are accountable for delivery quality, support effectiveness, and agreed service levels.
- Review and challenge solution designs to ensure they are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
- Lead platform upgrades, patching activities, vulnerability remediation, disaster recovery testing, and technology refresh initiatives.
- Ensure all audit, compliance, risk, and regulatory observations are addressed within agreed timelines.
- Drive automation initiatives and operational efficiency improvements to reduce manual effort and improve reliability.
- Manage platform performance, capacity planning, and future scalability requirements.
- Provide regular platform health updates, project status reports, risk assessments, and executive-level communications.
- Build and lead high-performing support and delivery teams while fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Technical Competencies

- Strong experience with Wealth Management platforms such as Avaloq, Temenos Wealth, or FNZ
- Strong understanding of Wealth Management application architecture and ecosystem integrations.
- Experience in API-based integrations, middleware technologies,



enterprise integration patterns, and microservices architecture.
- Good understanding of Oracle/SQL databases, application servers, cloud technologies, and infrastructure concepts.
- Experience managing application security, vulnerability remediation, disaster recovery, and business continuity requirements.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, release management, monitoring, and observability tools.

Experience & Qualifications

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.

· 12+ years of experience in Banking and Financial Services technology.

· Minimum 5 years of experience managing Wealth Management applications or platforms.

· Proven experience managing both production support (RTB) and transformation/delivery initiatives (CTB).

· Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage senior business leaders, technology teams, and vendors.

· Demonstrated experience managing critical banking platforms in a fast-paced environment.

Leadership Attributes

· Strong ownership mindset with end-to-end accountability.

· Ability to challenge vendors and solution proposals constructively.

· Outcome-driven and customer-centric approach.

· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

· Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.

· Ability to deliver results under tight timelines and resource constraints.

· Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on automation, simplification, and operational excellence.

📌 Wealth Management Platform Lead (Maharashtra)
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