Director of Technology - Core Banking

About the role

Join the journey of influencing the future of enterprise banking technology and modernization initiatives. Lead large-scale transformation programs that drive measurable organizational impact. Shape delivery excellence, innovation, and long-term technology strategy.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of business processes, priorities, and challenges to provide strategic technology leadership and build compelling business cases aligned to organizational goals.
• Lead technical requirements, engineering efforts, and delivery execution for core banking initiatives while advancing agile practices and technology lifecycle management.
• Manage collaboration with business units to develop specific technology platforms and co-create aligned technology and business roadmaps to meet strategic, operational, and tactical goals ensuring alignment of core banking initiatives with enterprise delivery plans and sequencing.
• Serve as a trusted subject matter expert by identifying innovative market solutions and leading the development of RFPs, business cases, and project charters for strategic initiatives.
• Coach, mentor, and develop team members, fostering a culture of performance, accountability, and continuous growth through regular feedback and performance evaluations.
• Drive improvements across the software development lifecycle with a focus on quality, automation, code standards, testing, and modern CI/CD practices.
• Lead and/or oversee projects being delivered to assigned business areas and manage the life of projects, with accountability for end-to-end delivery of enterprise core platform initiatives while advancing platform modernization objectives.
• Own delivery execution across enterprise programs, ensuring effective sequencing, dependency management, and coordination across multiple teams and workstreams.
• Establish strong governance practices, delivery frameworks, and execution rigor that create consistency, transparency, and predictable outcomes.
• Provide leadership across governance forums, initiative reviews, planning sessions, and business partnerships while proactively managing delivery risks and dependencies.
• Participate in the development and execution of annual operating plans and strategic technology priorities.
• Ensure technology initiatives are appropriately planned and funded, including consideration of infrastructure costs and long-term investment impacts.
• Review vendor contracts and Statements of Work (SOWs), while overseeing external partners and implementation resources supporting technology initiatives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define roadmaps, optimize feature delivery, and ensure technology investments deliver meaningful business outcomes.
• Establish and track OKRs and KPIs that align teams to strategic objectives and measure progress toward desired outcomes.
• Stay informed on emerging technologies, trends, and best practices to continuously enhance organizational capabilities and decision-making.
• Build and cultivate a collaborative, agile, and quality-focused technology organization that values innovation, learning, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum 7 years of people leader experience.
• Minimum 8 years of information technology experience with demonstrated expertise in application design including exposure to large-scale platforms or program delivery.
• Domain experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and/or Infrastructure/Operations and/or financial products (i.e. Core Banking, Credit Card, Mortgage, Auto Loan, Deposits, etc.).
• Experience building technology platforms and teams with experience driving end-to-end delivery and cross-team coordination.

Pay

The Target Pay Range for this position is $199,300.00-$243,800.00 annually. The full Pay Range is $155,200.00 - $288,000.00 annually. At BECU, compensation decisions are determined using factors such as relevant job-related skills, experience, and education or training. Should an offer for employment be made, we will consider individual qualifications. In addition to your salary, compensation incentives are available for the hired applicant. Incentives are performance based and targets vary by role.

Benefits

Because People Helping People Starts With Supporting You:

• 401(k) Company Match (up to 3%)
• Medical, Dental and Vision (family contributions as well)
• PTO Program + Exchange Program
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• BECU Cares volunteer time off + donation match

Schedule

Remote or onsite, we are committed to ensuring you are fully engaged and included in our collaborative environment. If you're located in Washington state and within a reasonable driving distance from Tukwila, we are requesting that you come into our HQ on Tuesdays & Wednesdays. For those candidates that live outside the commute distance of TFC and in any of our approved remote work locations, this role will be remote.