Head of Infrastructure & IT Governance

Ila Bank

Drive cloud strategy, optimize costs, ensure security, and orchestrate successful cloud adoption across the bank.

Oversight the solutions for the mobile app and the backend integration and support the architecture team.

Drive overall architectural design strategies for the bank with the support of the architecture team.

Ensure that all team leads are aligned and working towards common goals. Facilitate regular meetings to discuss progress, challenges, and dependencies between teams.

Provide guidance to development teams to maintain high standards of software quality and ensure best practices are followed.

Drive industry standard development strategies and promote the same inside the bank across the teams.

Manage IT governance framework to define and maintain IT policies and procedures.

Oversight IT Risk assessment from a risk management & compliance perspective and implement risk mitigation strategies.

Work directly with internal IT audit and coordinate with external auditors.

Oversight IT change management, processes and control mechanisms with release management.

Identifying and addressing any skill gaps within the Development team.

Ensure that all deliverables meet the required quality standards.

Maintain comprehensive documentation of all development activities. Provide regular updates to PMO on project progress, and to Head of IT on resource utilization, and any issues that need to be addressed.

Lead the Agile ceremonies, such as backlog grooming, sprint planning and task estimation.

Gather and address technical and design requirements.

Follow emerging technologies and support the development teams by ensuring solutions and application architecture are optimized and aligned to cloud well-architected frameworks.

Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing management of disaster recovery strategies to ensure minimal disruption and rapid recovery of critical systems in the event of incidents.