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When you work with the world's most innovative companies, you know you're making a difference.Our clients are the game changers, leaders and investors who fuel the global innovation economy. They're the businesses behind the next medical breakthroughs. And the visionaries whose new technologies could transform the way people live and work.They come to SVB for our expertise, deep network and nearly forty years of experience in the industries we serve, and to partner with diverse teams of passionate, enterprising SVBers, dedicated to an inclusive approach to helping them grow and succeed at every stage of their business.Join us at SVB and be part of bringing our clients' world-changing ideas to life. At SVB, we have the opportunity to grow and collectively make an impact by supporting the innovative clients and communities SVB serves. We pride ourselves in having both a diverse client roster and an equally diverse and inclusive organization. And we work diligently to encourage all with different ways of thinking, different ways of working, and especially those traditionally underrepresented in technology and financial services, to apply.Job DescriptionSVB is looking to hire a chief information officer for its Global Commercial Bank division, SVB's largest business unit. This leader will lead a team of over 1,250 peopleover half of SVB's technology organizationand will be responsible for all of the technology platforms supporting SVB's credit, treasury management, foreign exchange, trade finance, fund banking, and wine banking products and services. This executive will work in close partnership with peers on the Global Commercial Bank leadership team to fully integrate SVB's product and technology strategies, aligning around key objectives and ways of working. SVB is one of the fastest growing banks in the U.S. and is dedicated to serving the innovation economy, and as such is in the midst of transforming its technology operating model to support the rapid scaling of the business and to develop innovative products and services to better serve its clients. This leader will be responsible for continuing to transform the technology foundation of SVB's Global Commercial Bank, creating a modern, flexible architecture and delivery model which will allow SVB to innovate more quickly and reliably. SVB works diligently to encourage all with different ways of thinking, different ways of working, and especially those traditionally underrepresented in technology and financial services to apply. DESIRED OUTCOMES- Work in partnership with SVB's Global Commercial Bank leadership team to develop a long-term technology strategy to support the business's growth objectives and client needs.
- Accelerate the pace of technology transformation for SVB's Global Commercial Bank in the context of SVB's broader technology strategy. Continue to decompose monolithic, legacy applications to create a more modular, flexible environment; continue to migrate workloads to the public cloud.
- Develop and continue to strengthen relationships with the Global Commercial Bank's leadership team (business teams, product teams) to foster productive working relationships and furthering shared goals.
- Acts to surpass team go als for the technology function, seizing opportunities to extend the limits of what is possible.
- Sets continually higher goals for the technology team that are ambitious but achievable.
- Identifies and acts on new opportunities that enable technology performance targets to be exceeded.
- Seeks new challenges and is energized by exceeding targets.
- Identifies all necessary stakeholders (across technology, product, and business functions ) and connects with them to gain support or agreement.
- Negotiates with a genuine give-and-take approach that takes all parties' perspectives into account.
- Takes advantage of opportunities to build strategic relationships across functions to achieve specific outcomes.
- Engages others in open dialogue and adapts own influence approach to different stakehold ers in ways that address their interests or concerns.
- Anticipates emerging or potential conflicts among all stakeholders and takes steps to preempt them.
- Identifies and leverages individual strengths and potential within the team.
- Engages the team in discussions about the longer-term technology strategy and how they can contribute.
- Delegates significant responsibilities to team members to free self to work on other priorities.
- Gives team members decision-making authority and accountability within their areas of responsibility.
- Invites the team to recommend ways to solve problems, discuss challenging issues, or generate new ideas.