VP Infrastructure

About us ClearBank was built on the belief that banking infrastructure would no longer slow down progress. Instead, it's the catalyst that unlocks the potential to innovate. That’s why our clients — financial institutions from fintech’s and crypto platforms, to banks and credit unions — use our API to power their banking infrastructure. But we wouldn’t be ClearBank without our people. They’re what powers our innovative technology and the reason we love what we do every day. We’re a group of spirited people who are never afraid to challenge the norm - becoming stronger, more energised, and that much better when we’re together. It’s our belief in fairness, autonomy and choice that means our people are empowered with the tools to learn, grow, and contribute to ours and our clients' success. Interested in joining us? Read on or visit our website for more information.

The Role As VP of IT Infrastructure & Operations you would take accountability for the service levels for our IT Infrastructure for both internal business operations, engineering, and our customer platform.

Tech You will manage a cross-functional team of support engineers and infrastructure/platform engineers, the team’s goal is to provide next generation technology & platforms that enable the business to excel leveraging cloud technologies.

Organisational As the VP of IT Infrastructure & Operations you will be accountable for the successful strategic direction and execution of changes and support. You will have the autonomy to build/form your teams, manage how you deal with failure and how you measure and celebrate success.

Culture Promoting and feeding into the companies’ beliefs is key in this role. You will be an ambassador internal and externally. Promoting people through great mentoring and hiring across the team of mixed experience individuals. The role requires a passionate person who can manage challenging priorities and remove confusion for their team by leveraging data and business insights. The ability to be customer focused and innovative while bringing our stakeholders on the journey and helping shape the strategic direction of the business.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and support business critical software and hardware (Data Centres & EUC)
• Manage strategic supplier relationships
• Make business critical buy vs build decisions.
• Drive effective enterprise architecture working closely with Customer and Internal product groups.
• Effective cost management (Cloud cost management, Third Parties, Development cost)
• System uptime and disaster recovery management
• Drive autonomy and efficiencies within engineering teams by removing cognitive load.
• Ensure ClearBank is always adhering to security best practices
• Improve ClearBank’s Monitoring and Alerting strategy
• Mentor and nurture your team.
• Effective 1:1 management of your leadership team.
• Skip level 1:1s to understand and help communications with your wider team.
• Leverage modern technologies where appropriate.
• ClearBank want to lead the financial industry when it comes to technology.
• Be a champion of those technology choices across the floor.
• Manage Technology wide initiatives to drive best practices and move the platform forward as a whole.
• Enable collaboration and innovation in the team and with stakeholders.
• Create an environment that drives positive energy and a mentality to succeed.
• Define metrics and ensure we can effectively measure success.

Experience:

• Leading people managers.
• Leading technology teams.
• Demonstratable experience of technology judgements and commercially viable decision
• Full ownership of the software delivery lifecycle.
• Able to take business problems and work independently and/or delegate to solve these.
• Using best practice to improve products/services or processes.
• Experience in cloud computing
• Experiencing managing stakeholders
• Risk Management process
• Delivering software in a regulated/controlled environment
• Supplier management experience
• Experience Defining policies and embedding them
• Experience working in a Global IT team

A little bit more about us! ClearBank is Where You Can belong: At ClearBank we think about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) a lot. Not because we think we should. But because we know we should – how else can we build a happy workforce and be successful as a business. We’re committed to making sure our teams reflect society. And we put energy and effort into making this a place where everyone feels at home, where they’re given the trust and encouragement to do their very best work. Here are some of the things we’re most proud of:

• 42% of our senior management roles are held by women
• Our enhanced family leave policies
• Launching our partnership with Code First Girls
• Increasing awareness of neurodiversity in the workplace through our partnership with the Inclusive Group

Our hiring process and what you can expect:

• Application: a member of our talent acquisition team will review your application against the key requirements for the role and let you know within two weeks whether you’re moving forward to the next stage;
• Screening: You’ll spend 30-45 minutes speaking to one of our recruiters learning more about the role and ClearBank, and we’ll get to know more about you, your experience and how your skills align with the role (this will be via phone or Teams video call). You can expect to hear back from us within seven days following this meeting (if things are taking longer than expected, we’ll let you know that too);
• First Interview: You’ll spend one hour with a member of our hiring team focusing on your skills, competencies and your ways of working at the same time we’ll give you time to ask more questions about the role, the team and learn more about the ClearBank culture. This will be via Teams.
• Second Interview: This will be a competency-based interview with one or more members of our team.
• Final Stage: You will have a final meeting with the Head of Department. This will be around 45-60 minutes.
• Offer: Congratulations! Get ready to transform banking forever!

Equal Opportunities ClearBank is committed to ensuring equal opportunities throughout every stage of the recruitment process. ClearBank recognises that diversity is vital to the long-term success of the business in the communities and markets in which it operates. ClearBank is also a firm believer that an inclusive culture fosters greater employee engagement and collaboration. ClearBank strives for diversity and inclusion of all forms, including (but not limited to): gender, age, educational and professional background, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief and sexual orientation. As part of the Company’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable adjustments, to candidates during the recruitment process, including to individuals with disabilities. We want to create a safe space that welcomes everyone so please let us know how we can accommodate you. In case you have any accessibility requirements you can share that with our Talent Acquisition team prior to your interview stage, if applicable.

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