Manager, Regional CoE Core Banking System Rollout

Manager, Regional CoE (Core Banking System Rollout)

Responsibilities:
- Establish and operate the Regional Center of Excellence (CoE) function for the APAC Core Banking Rollout Program.
- Identify gaps in existing standards, playbooks, methodologies, ownership, quality, and applicability based on Country delivery needs.
- Define and develop Regional standards, methodologies, policies, templates, Task Cards, quality criteria, acceptance criteria, and estimation guidance.
- Establish clear boundaries between Regional standards and Country-specific requirements, including RACI, ownership, approval processes, and decision rights.
- Work with domain SMEs and Country teams to develop solution options, recommended approaches, assumptions, dependencies, and exception-handling guidelines.
- Coordinate cross-functional reviews across business and technical domains to ensure consistency and manage dependencies across countries and releases.
- Support Country teams in applying Regional standards through workshops, guidance, FAQs, joint design, and rollout support.
- Use Thailand/BKK as the pilot to validate standards, capture lessons learned, and distinguish common requirements from local requirements.
- Convert validated pilot outputs into Regional standards and support their approval, publication, version control, training, and deployment to subsequent countries.
- Manage and prioritize the CoE improvement backlog based on business impact, urgenc