Core Banking and Card Lead

What are we looking for?

Essential skills and experience

• Significant leadership experience within banking or financial services technology, gained on credit, banking, payments, card or core banking platforms.
• A proven track record of running complex, business-critical technology services in a highly regulated environment.
• Experience balancing operational stability with strategic transformation and business growth, and a strong record of leading organisational change and delivery programmes.
• Strong commercial awareness and financial management capability, including complex technology investment portfolios, budgets, cost management and strategic vendor and commercial partnerships.
• Strong strategic thinking and planning skills, with the confidence to make decisions on a three-to-five-year horizon while managing short-term business demands.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, including experience engaging Executive Committees and senior stakeholders.
• A proven track record of leading, developing and retaining high-performing teams, and of making sound decisions where priorities compete.
• A strong understanding of banking platform architecture, technology delivery, operational resilience, risk and governance, with the communication skills to make complex concepts clear to non-technical audiences at Executive and Board level.

Desirable skills and experience

• Experience across both retail or private banking and corporate transactional banking domains.
• Experience of modern cloud-native platform architectures.
• An understanding of core banking platforms, card processing platforms and payments ecosystems.
• Experience building platform operating models that serve multiple business consumers.
• Experience gained in a technology-led transformation environment.
• Familiarity with Mambu, Pismo, Visa and modern banking ecosystems.
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams.
• A strong grasp of emerging banking, payments and card industry trends.

As part of our collaborative & agile culture, our working week is 4 days in the office and one day remote. We believe that being together enables us to live our values and support our clients and communities in an extraordinary way.

Investec offers a range of wellbeing benefits to make our people feel healthier, balanced and more fulfilled in their lives inside and outside of work. You can find a list of our benefits here

Investec – Where Out of the Ordinary Happens

At Investec, we do things differently. We're a leading international bank and wealth manager built on a culture of curiosity, entrepreneurial spirit and human connection. Ideas are heard, ambition is celebrated, and impact is encouraged. As part of a team that challenges convention and strives for outperformance, you'll help shape bold solutions for clients who expect something more than the ordinary.

Embedded in our culture is a sense of belonging and inclusion. At Investec we want everyone to find it easy to be themselves, and to feel they belong. It's a responsibility we all share and is integral to our purpose and values as an organisation. We believe that innovation thrives when everyone feels respected, included, and empowered to contribute.

We actively seek out diverse talent and foster an inclusive environment, encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences. Here, you'll find networks, benefits, and development opportunities designed to support your career journey, wherever it may lead.

If this role excites you but you don't meet every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you. Your unique perspective and experience could be exactly what we are looking for. Get in touch!

At Investec, we're deeply invested in our clients, our colleagues, and our communities. It's more than a mindset; it's how we show up every day.

Be part of something Out of the Ordinary.

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