Director, Digital Platform Technologies & Innovation

Company: BOK Financial Corporation
Location: Tulsa
Posted on: February 25, 2021

Job Description:

Tulsa, OK, US Areas of Interest:--Information Services-- BOK Financial (BOKF), Headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, BOK Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: BOKF) is a top 25 U.S.-based financial services holding company with operations in ten states - Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Kansas/Missouri, New Mexico, Nebraska and Wisconsin. The company began more than 100 years ago in Tulsa and has successfully diversified into a variety of industries, businesses and geographies. . Responsible for developing, maturing and overseeing the implementation of technology platforms, software design patterns, reference architectures and development processes related to BOKF's digital ecosystem. Partners closely with Enterprise Architecture and other technology leaders to ensure all technologies, patterns, standards, and processes are effective and appropriately aligned with BOKF's broader technology frameworks and objectives. The leader remains fully engaged and aligned to all facets of the IT operating model; developing standards and maturity roadmaps, ensuring project compliance, ensures technical quality of all software developed by BOKF, ensures all platforms adhere to best practices and are built for change, and builds feedback loops to drive continuous improvement.

• Lead the evolution of Solutions Architecture, Software Design, and DevOps practices; ensuring the delivery of highly resilient, scalable, built for change platforms, enabling aligned agile teams to rapidly deploy new features.
• Mentor, encourage, foster, and support intelligent innovation and risk taking to improve the agility, quality, resiliency, scalability, and business value of BOKF's digital platforms.
• Supervise and participate in research and development activities. Materially contribute to the evolution of build versus buy decision frameworks. Cultivate productive, collaborative relationships with other members of the Executive and Senior Leadership Teams across the organization.
• Ensure standards, patterns, architectures, and development processes are effectively leveraged during project execution across all digital roadmaps. Perform solutions architecture and system design activities on high-value initiatives solving complex technical issues and ensure effective engagement and collaboration among Enterprise Architecture and Software Development.
• May perform other duties as assigned. Education & Experience Requirements: This level of knowledge is normally acquired through completion of Master's Degree in Computer Science or Management Information Systems and 10 years of directly related experience in ------------------------solutions architecture and/or software development with at least 5 years of management experience overseeing one or more teams of technical professionals or equivalent combination of education and experience.-- Skills:
  • Deep understanding of the evolving digital world on both the demand side and the supply side
  • Well versed in relevant best practices, technologies, and design patterns including DevOps, microservices, service oriented architecture and model view controller
  • In-depth knowledge of cyber-security best practices related to the above
  • Strong business acumen, including domain-specific knowledge of the company and its business units
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to effectively drive people, process and technology change in a dynamic and complex operating environment
  • Knowledge of business ecosystems, software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), service oriented architecture (SOA), application programming interfaces (APIs), open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics
  • Exceptional soft and interpersonal skills
  • Strong leadership, influence, and negotiation skills
  • Excellent planning and organizational skills
  • Knowledge of business engineering principles and processes
  • Familiarity with basic graphical modeling approaches, design systems, tools and model repositories
  • A customer-driven passion for excellence BOK Financial is a stable and financially strong organization that provides excellent training and development to support building the long term careers of our employees. With passion, skill and partnership you can make an impact on the success of the bank, our customers and your own career!
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    Apply today and take the first step towards your next career opportunity!
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    BOK Financial is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for training, compensation, transfer, promotion and other aspects of employment for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information or veteran status. Investing in our talent and building a great workplace is a top priority for us.
    • Empowered employees
    • Award-winning culture
    • Community commitment ABOUT BOK FINANCIAL BOK Financial is an award-winning $46 billion regional financial services company and one of the top 30 banks in the U.S, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
      
      We seek to continually foster and support the principles and values of our company by promoting an environment that is inclusive of the diverse values, opinions, experience, culture and needs of our employees, clients and communities.
      
      FACTS:
      
      • 28 years of financial profitability
      • $79+ billion assets under management and administration
      • $5.8 million in charitable contributions in 2019 and $86 million since the start of the BOKF Foundation in 1998
        Nearest Major Market: Tulsa
        Nearest Secondary Market: Oklahoma
        Job Segment: Manager, Information Systems, Bank, Banking, Computer Science, Management, Technology, Finance

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