Technology Practice Leader

The opportunity

Heitmeyer Consulting works exclusively with U.S. banks, credit unions, and fintechs across Transformation, Payments, Data & AI, Risk & Controls, and Platforms. We combine financial services expertise, experienced talent, and flexible delivery models to move client initiatives from strategy through execution.

We are looking for a banking leader who understands how technology enables a bank to operate, serve customers, manage risk, and grow. You will own Heitmeyer’s client-facing technology capability, working directly with clients to identify business needs, shape practical solutions, and lead the work required to deliver results.

You must have owned a core function inside a bank, ideally multiple functions. You bring the judgment of someone who has been accountable for how a bank performs and can connect business priorities, operating processes, data, and technology.

Your mandate

Build and grow a technology practice grounded in the business of banking. Start with the client’s problem and desired outcome, understand the root cause, and develop the simplest effective solution. Bring together Heitmeyer’s banking expertise, talent, technology capabilities, and partners to improve client performance.

What you will own

• Practice strategy and growth. Define the banking problems our technology practice is best equipped to solve. Build a focused portfolio of services and solutions, develop the capabilities to deliver them, and own practice revenue, delivery quality, and profitability.
• Client discovery and solution design. Work with bank business, operations, risk, and technology leaders to understand priorities and constraints. Translate those needs into clear solution options, business cases, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
• Banking ecosystem judgment. Understand how core banking, payments, lending, digital channels, data, integrations, and control systems work together. Evaluate changes across processes, platforms, vendors, and teams so a solution works within the bank’s broader operating environment.
• Opportunity development. Partner with sales and practice leaders to identify needs, build executive relationships, lead discovery, and develop proposals and statements of work. Define scope, staffing, pricing, assumptions, and delivery commitments that clients can trust.
• Delivery accountability. Remain engaged from solution design through implementation and adoption. Set delivery expectations, guide teams, resolve issues, and confirm that work achieves the agreed business outcomes within scope and budget.
• Reusable solutions and IP. Partner across Heitmeyer’s practice areas to turn recurring bank needs and delivery experience into assessments, methods, accelerators, and repeatable solutions. Apply AI and automation where they create measurable value and can be governed responsibly.
• People and partnerships. Build a network of banking and technology experts, guide consultant development, and work with recruiting to strengthen delivery capacity. Select partners that expand our ability to solve client problems.

What you bring

• Banking operating experience is required. You have worked inside a bank and owned a core business, operations, or technology function, with accountability for its performance, people, processes, and controls. Ownership across multiple functions is strongly preferred.
• An understanding of the bank as a business. You can connect technology decisions to customer experience, revenue, cost to serve, operational resilience, risk, and regulatory obligations. You understand the dependencies and tradeoffs across bank functions.
• Technology ecosystem fluency. You understand how banking platforms, applications, data, integrations, vendors, and architecture support business capabilities. You can challenge technical recommendations, assess options, and work credibly with business leaders, architects, and engineers.
• A record of delivering business results. You have led meaningful change involving technology and can explain the problem, your decisions, the implementation, and the resulting improvement in bank performance.
• Client solution leadership. You can lead discovery, frame a business case, shape a practical solution, and guide execution. You are comfortable working directly with executives and delivery teams and remain close enough to the work to make sound decisions.
• Commercial ownership. You can develop opportunities, scope engagements, manage delivery economics, and build a practice that earns repeat business. You want accountability for growing both the capability and its results.
• Practical AI judgment. You can identify where AI and automation improve a banking workflow or decision, assess feasibility and risk with technical specialists, and define how success will be measured.
• Clear communication and sound judgment. You ask direct questions, challenge assumptions, explain tradeoffs, and build alignment across stakeholders with different priorities.

Experience that strengthens your fit

• Leadership across multiple banking functions, such as lending, deposits, payments, operations, digital banking, data, risk, or technology.
• Consulting or professional services experience, including building offerings, selling engagements, and leading client delivery.
• Core modernization, platform selection and implementation, systems integration, workflow improvement, or data and AI initiatives in banking.
• Building teams or practices and developing relationships with banking technology providers and delivery partners.

How success will be measured

Client solutions that produce measurable business improvements. A growing, profitable technology practice. Well-scoped engagements delivered successfully. Repeat business and stronger executive relationships. Reusable capabilities that improve delivery and expand what Heitmeyer can offer clients.