CTO – Planning and Transformation Lead
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1st shift (United States of America)Please review the following job description:
We are seeking a strategic and transformational leader to join our Core Technology Organization as the CTO – Planning and Transformation Lead. In this role, you will define and drive the long-term vision, strategy, and integrated roadmap(s) for our core digital platforms and underlying technology infrastructure. You will play a key role in aligning technology initiatives with the strategic direction of the technology organization, ensuring that all efforts support operational excellence, innovation, and long-term scalability, with pace, and quality. You will own the data and metrics associated with demonstrating progress against priorities and roadmaps.As CTO – Planning and Transformation Lead, you will lead development of integrated core technical roadmaps in alignment with both short- and long-term objectives and overall CTO strategy. You will develop, track, and analyze IT performance metrics to assess impact and ensure continuous improvement and performance. A core component of this role involves financial stewardship—leading annual investment budget planning, forecasting, and prioritization within the core technology function.
You will work closely with internal IT teams and external partners to identify, sequence, and implement impactful technology solutions and capabilities that enhance efficiency, stability, and innovation across platforms. Cultivating a strong, collaborative culture is essential, as is fostering a mindset of stability , continuous improvement, and experimentation. You will be responsible for monitoring technology performance, maintaining up-to-date roadmaps, tracking delivery progress, and communicating key results to executive leadership and stakeholders.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.
1. Establish and lead Truist Technology Strategic Remediation Governance and Operations function to design and implement operational program management structure to support execution of strategic remediation plans within program portfolio, including program charter, governing documents, adoption efforts and maturity roadmap.
2. Oversee functions to drive:
a. Project management structure including portfolio management, status reporting, communication, education, and engagement routines.
b. Management of regulatory exams, responses, and routines on behalf of program; serve as point of contact for Truist Regulatory Relations internal team.
c. Ownership and accountability for remediation of ET-wide macro concerns not owned by a technology vertical – i.e., Finance and Resource Management.
3. Work in tight alignment with the Head of Strategic Remediation, ET senior leadership and Business Management Offices to drive adoption of program.
4. Build and/or influence organizational support structures to ensure prioritization and ongoing sustainability of solutions put in place as an outcome of this work, i.e. influence processes to prioritize strategic remediation initiatives across HR/Risk/Finance/business dimensions, socialize and educate key partners, create/enhance tracking, reporting, metrics, escalation paths, interrogation of existing or needed policies and procedures, leading project-level reviews.
5. Build and lead a team with appropriate qualifications and experience to design, drive, manage and support this effort.
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