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The Senior Director – Core Banking Transformation, Strategy Advisory will serve as a strategic leader responsible for defining the future-state direction of the bank's core systems landscape. This is not an engineering or delivery leadership role. Instead, it is a high-impact advisory position focused on business capability mapping, core platform rationalization, and long-term transformation strategy. This leader will partner closely with executive stakeholders to guide critical decisions on core banking platforms, modernization pathways, and enterprise technology investments, helping the organization evolve from a fragmented, multi-core environment into a scalable, integrated digital backbone.
Job Responsibility
Map end-to-end business processes across banking domains (deposits, lending, payments, cards, wealth)
Align business capabilities to underlying core systems and supporting platforms
Identify redundancy, fragmentation, and inefficiency across the current ecosystem
Build a structured enterprise capability model to inform transformation decisions
Deliver data-driven recommendations to executive leadership
Define the target-state core banking ecosystem
Develop a multi-year transformation roadmap
Guide leadership on modernization options
Ensure alignment between roadmap and enterprise priorities
Conduct evaluations of core banking platforms and ecosystem solutions
Benchmark internal capabilities against external market offerings
Lead build vs. buy vs. partner analyses
Support vendor evaluation and strategic platform decisions
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leaders
Translate business strategy into actionable platform direction
Facilitate decision-making on platform investments
Align short-term business needs with long-term architecture goals
Partner with core platform leaders, architecture and data teams, product and business stakeholders
Influence outcomes without direct ownership of engineering or delivery teams
Operate effectively in a dynamic, evolving, and partially unstructured environment
Requirements
15+ years in banking, financial services, fintech, or consulting
Demonstrated experience in core banking transformation strategy
Experience evaluating or advising on: Core platform modernization, Platform consolidation or selection
Background in: Business architecture, Enterprise transformation strategy, Technology advisory
Proven success operating in ambiguous or evolving environments
Nice to have
Experience at Big 4 or top-tier consulting firms (EY, Deloitte, PwC, Accenture, etc.) OR banking leaders who have: Led core transformation strategy (not just execution)
Worked across multiple core platforms and environments