Senior Director - Core Banking Transformation, Strategy Advisory 5178

Job Description

Job Description

Senior Director - Core Banking Transformation, Strategy Advisory 5178

Location: Remote CST

Compensation: $250K-$280K base + bonus + profit sharing. Up to $350K/year total compensation.

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 .

Mission & Strategic Objective

• Mission: Transform core banking into a scalable, business-aligned ecosystem that accelerates growth, agility, and innovation
• Objective: Define and guide a future-state digital core strategy that supports the bank's next phase of scale and complexity

Key Responsibilities

1. Business Capability Mapping & Process Alignment

• 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

1. Core Platform Rationalization

• Evaluate existing platforms (e.g., Signature, Thought Machine, Fiserv, FIS, TSYS, etc.)
• Assess:
• • Functional overlap
  • Integration complexity
  • Scalability constraints
• Define clear strategies for:
• • Retain / modernize
  • Consolidate
  • Retire / replace
• Deliver data-driven recommendations to executive leadership

1. Transformation Strategy & Roadmap Development

• Define the target-state core banking ecosystem
• Develop a multi-year transformation roadmap , including:
• • Platform strategy (single vs multi-core, hybrid)
  • Migration approach and sequencing
  • Key trade-offs and dependencies
• Guide leadership on modernization options:
• • Progressive transformation
  • Platform replacement
• Ensure alignment between roadmap and enterprise priorities

1. Market & Vendor Strategy

• 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

1. Executive Advisory & Strategic Alignment

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leaders
• Translate business strategy into actionable platform direction
• Facilitate decision-making on:
• • Platform investments
  • Modernization sequencing
  • Strategic trade-offs
• Align short-term business needs with long-term architecture goals

1. Cross-Functional Influence

• Partner with:
• • Core platform leaders
  • Architecture and data teams
  • Product and business stakeholders
• Influence outcomes without direct ownership of e