The purpose of the role is to help drive business performance by leveraging technology as a competitive advantage and enabling delivery of that technology in the market, aligned to the UniOps experiences and strategy.
· Supporting UniOps strategic priorities in Sri Lanka through working closely with the journeys/experiences and global platforms to enable growth
· Owning technology roadmap for the business, aligned with the global strategic roadmap and journeys/experiences view to ensure driving business value in the cluster.
· Being able to spot opportunities of using global technology solutions within the Cluster, drive adoption of the global solutions.
· Being accountable for high uptime resilience of business-critical systems
· Be a master communicator. Ensure that business leaders are well informed about how technology can drive their business, any major risk areas, implementation plans, financial impacts.
· Managing and deploy all elements of the technology programs, including all programs under IT Investment Board, Application Lifecycle Management and BAU Project budgets and operational systems.
· Ensure the optimal risk profile of projects and programs based on business needs.
· Ensuring effective resource balancing and prioritization across the South Asia programs and projects.
· Managing the Geo technology team, including virtual teams, and 3rd party service providers.
· Ensuring effective decommissioning and life cycle management of all local and Business Managed Applications, ensuring the applications are maintained in a supported state.
· Attracting and develop talent across technology team to be able to work in an agile, collaborative, and digital way.
· Being an active team player across the technology leadership team driving common ways of working and leveraging our global scale.
· Focusing on continuous skills development of the Geo IT team and end users in the Cluster.