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Hi,

We have been retained by the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco to do an executive search for a Chief Technology Officer. I always like to explore all avenues possible, so please feel free to pass this along to your networks. My contact information is on the attached job spec. Feel fre to call me with any questions. The ideal candidate will have both the technical and management skills with an exposure to the trading of deravitive products.

Thanking you in advance. This is a full scope search and we welcome all diverse candidates to apply.

Best,

Michele Michele Fleuranges Parker
Consultant, The Prout Group
Mobile phone: 917-239-3651
Fax:/office phone: 718-651-1913 New York

Position Specification
POSITION: Vice President – Chief Technology Officer
ORGANIZATION: Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco
WEBSITE: http://www.fhlbsf.com/
LOCATION: San Francisco, CA

REPORTING RELATIONSHIP: Senior Vice President - Chief Information Officer

COMPANY BACKGROUND:
The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLBank San Francisco or the "Bank") is one of 12 regional banks in the Federal Home Loan Bank System chartered by Congress in 1932 to provide wholesale products and services to member financial institutions. The Bank is privately owned by its members, which include commercial banks, savings institutions, credit unions, thrift and loan companies, and insurance companies headquartered in Arizona, California and Nevada. It links members to worldwide capital markets by providing them with low-cost credit or funding known as advances (loans) to provide liquidity and enhance competition in the mortgage market. Each Federal Home Loan Bank is a separately chartered entity with its own board of directors and management. The Bank also funds community investment programs that help members create affordable housing and promote community economic development. FHLBank San Francisco contributes 10% of its income to the Affordable Housing Program (the "AHP"), which provides grants to create affordable housing for low and moderate income households and individuals. Since the inception of the AHP, the Bank has awarded approximately $460 million in AHP grants to create over 80,000 affordable homes in states served by its members.

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the Bank (reported December 31, 2007) has $323.0 billion total assets, $251.0 billion total advances and approximately 300 employees. FHLBank San Francisco is the largest bank in the Federal Home Loan Bank System and considered to be best-in-class according to its member banks regarding its product and service offerings.

COMPENSATION: Competitive

DUTIES:
The Vice President, Chief Technology (CTO) is responsible for translating the business vision and strategy into a technology infrastructure that effectively meets the needs of the business. Responsibilities include establishing a bank-wide application roadmap and defining and ensuring technical and development standards for the Bank. Other responsibilities, though not exhaustive, include the following:

• Develop and maintain multiple views of the Enterprise Architecture (Applications, Information, Infrastructure, Security, Management) that support the achievement of business goals.
• Create and maintain an application roadmap.
• Define and enforce Bank-wide technology standards
• Improve system delivery through the reuse of architecture models, existing systems, services, and solutions.
• Provide a standard and structured approach for integrating numerous, complex applications and systems in the Bank.
• Identify and eliminate the duplication of functionality and data throughout the enterprise.
• Establish integrated information flow architecture for the Bank.
• Participate in the project approval and review process to ensure that design decisions adhere to Enterprise Architecture standards.
• Produce documentation of design patterns for application development teams or product implementation teams to leverage.
• Effectively manage the security of the Bank’s systems.
• Build credibility and strong working relationships with Business Units.
• Mentor other architects and developers within the Bank.
  

THE PERSON
EDUCATION: B.S. Computer Science or related field strongly desired MBA or equivalent preferred
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE :

• Minimum of ten to fifteen years of progressively increasing experience in information technology, preferably in a financial services institution.
• Demonstrated development experience in several different programming languages.
  Experienced in planning, development and implementation.
• Experience in managing information systems design and analysis.
• Working Knowledge of Oracle applications and systems programming.
• Knowledge of database management.
• Experience with network systems, telecommunications and data processing operations.

OTHER CHARACTERISTICS

• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Strong communications and presentation skills.
• Influencer.
• Developing staff.
• Recruit and retain effective staff.
  

CONTACT INFORMATION
Name: Michele Fleuranges Parker
Title: Consultant
Phone: 917-239-3651
Email: michelefparker@gmail.com
Fax: 718-651-1913
or
Name: Lourdes Bennett
Title: Office Manager
Phone: 216-771-5539
Email: lbennett@proutgroup.com

Address: The Prout Group, Inc.
1111 Superior Avenue, Suite 1120
Cleveland, OH 44114
Fax: 216-771-2260

posted by Victor Lloyd Smith @ 9:10 AM