Vice President, Information Technologies Integrator - New York - Lloyds Banking Group

Description

Lloyds Overview

Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets, plc ("LBCM") forms an integral part of Lloyds Banking Group, a UK-focused retail and commercial bank with more than 30 million customers globally. We have been operating in North America for over 100 years, providing a client-focused approach for global businesses with strong links to the UK. Our New York operations provides a gateway between the UK and North America for financial institutions and large corporate clients, offering core banking products such as lending, trade finance and a range of debt capital and financial markets services through our US broker dealer, Lloyds Securities Inc.

Overview

This is an exciting time to join Lloyds, working with a new leadership as we accelerate our purpose-led growth strategy and expand capabilities across key product areas.

Lloyds Bank is committed to attracting, retaining and developing the best talent in the industry and embracing the diversity of our people. We offer our colleagues ongoing training, development, mentoring and networking opportunities, as well as competitive benefits and vacation leave. We are dedicated to working with our community and offer a range of volunteering and fundraising activities throughout the year.

Diversity and inclusion are a part of who we are at Lloyds Bank. Lloyds North America strives to create a culture where every individual feels included, and empowered to be their best. Providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other class protected by applicable law.

Lloyds values diversity in all backgrounds and experiences and wants their employees to bring their "whole self" to work

Reasonable Accommodations for Qualified Individuals with Disabilities During the Application Process

Lloyds North America is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application process, please contact our Human Resources Dept at:

Role Overview

Vice President, Integrator role is to coordinate dependencies between the Lab and stakeholders external to the Lab such as other labs, platforms, Group Executive Functions and 3rd parties, this may include coordinating complex and high-risk implementations. The Integrator sits at Lab- or Platform-level and covers both business and technology change.

Responsibilities

• Develops the sequence for integration related tasks in collaboration with the PO and aligned to the Lab backlog.
• Catalogues and manages dependencies between the lab and other teams.
• Works with stakeholders outside of the lab to ensure interlock to enable the lab to deliver at pace.
• Identifies blockers to delivery and where possible mitigates / resolves, escalating to product owner(s) or lab leadership where required.
• Acts as interface between the supplier (3rd Party) and key business stakeholders.
• Manages complex and high-risk implementations requiring integration between multiple parties (internal/external) to ensure safe delivery.
• Coordinates the integration process and/or implementation events across shared infrastructure (e.g. Upgrading the Mainframe); leads on the SI process, coordinating parties to get the change over the line.
• Provides expertise (not content) for governance activities owned by the Product Owner, e.g. PRIA, for change across multiple labs.

Qualifications

Education and experience required:

• Minimum of Bachelor's Degree.
• MS Power Point, JIRA, Confluence, project management skills, ServiceNow.

Key Skills And Knowledge Required

• Agile Methodology & Tools - Manages complex change within a business area through experience of agile teams and builds excitement around agile ways of working. Helps to stand up new agile teams, providing coaching and advice, and sharing experience on the most appropriate methods and tools to use for the specific work required.
• Stakeholder Management - Develops and improves stakeholder relationships to build consensus and improve delivery of change outcomes. Uses experience to manage conflicting priorities by facilitating discussion and resolution, persuading stakeholders to consider alternative views.
• Planning, Tracking, Reporting & Governance - Communicates regular status updates to key stakeholders and resolves high priority issues affecting delivery. Uses experience to manage critical risks/issues/dependencies arising out of Status Reporting and agile meetings, takes ownership for critical issues and ensures resolution within agreed timescales.

Salary Range: $150,000 - $170,000