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Chief Technology Officer

Sainsbury's Bank provides a range of 'best buy' financial products including credit cards, loans and savings, and good quality, competitively priced car, home, pet, travel and life insurance. The Bank also has a growing number of Travel Money bureaux at Sainsbury's stores across the UK and a large ATM estate. Sainsbury's was the first major British supermarket to open a bank, commencing trading in February 1997. Our strategy is to offer Sainsbury's shoppers consistently great deals and rewards enabling them to benefit from quality financial products which offer good value while also saving them money every time they shop in Sainsbury's. Key facts about Sainsbury's Bank: *We have access to around 24 million customer transactions per week *We sell our products and services through multiple channels, including in-store, by telephone and online *We regularly win consumer and industry awards for the competitiveness of our products, our compelling customer offers, and our high standard of customer service.

Senior IT Leader with accountability for provision of IT Architecture services. I have extensive experience across a broad spectrum of technologies, platforms and business domains, specialising in Digital enablement and transformation. Over recent years I have established and evolved a number of Architecture teams and practices, implementing effective, value-add teams that help to ensure predictable delivery in line with business and IT strategy. As comfortable with business sponsors up to C-level as I am with IT colleagues, I take real satisfaction in distilling complex IT concepts to get them across to audiences of varying technical abilities; I have excellent communication skills, and enjoy helping colleagues across the organisation to understand how technology can help them to meet their business goals. Specialties: - IT Strategy- Leading, shaping and evolving IT architecture teams and practices- Defining and implementing architectural process and governance- Providing IT leadership, consultancy and guidance to both IT and business stakeholders- Business Process Outsourcing / IT Outsourcing - Financial services experience