Core Banking Manager to Head of Core Banking

Build the architecture, resilience, strategy, commercial, and leadership judgement needed to lead a core-banking capability.

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Core Banking Architecture

See the platform as one system: business flow, dependencies, integration, resilience, and failure domains.

Private study lesson

Seeing core banking as a system

Objective: Move from component-level thinking to an end-to-end service and dependency view.

Core-banking leaders need to reason about the full service path, not only the component currently showing the symptom.

Approx. 10 minutes

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Mapping business flow to technology

Objective: Trace a business event through the technical components and operational controls that support it.

The useful architecture map starts with the business event and follows where state, responsibility, and evidence move next.

Approx. 12 minutes

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Integration and dependency architecture

Objective: Recognise synchronous, asynchronous, database, platform, and external dependencies and the risks they create.

A dependency map becomes valuable when it shows failure behaviour, ownership, and recovery implications rather than only connection lines.

Approx. 12 minutes

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Resilience and failure domains

Objective: Identify where apparently separate components share infrastructure, data, or operational failure modes.

Two components are not truly independent if they depend on the same database, network path, certificate, storage, operator, or recovery process.

Approx. 12 minutes

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Architecture decision exercise

Objective: Apply the module by reviewing a fictional core-banking service and making a management recommendation.

The senior skill is not drawing the most detailed diagram; it is making a defensible decision from incomplete but relevant evidence.

Approx. 15 minutes

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Operational Resilience

Connect service criticality, recovery objectives, impact, dependencies, exercises, and evidence.

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Defining an important business service

Objective: Define a service in business-outcome terms before setting impact tolerances, recovery objectives, or technical controls.

Operational resilience starts with the outcome the organisation must keep delivering, not with a list of servers marked critical.

Approx. 10 minutes

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Technology Strategy

Turn platform risk, technical debt, upgrades, automation, and investment choices into a coherent roadmap.

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Transformation Leadership

Lead complex change from business case and mobilisation through cutover, readiness, and benefits.

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Technology Risk and Governance

Frame technical risk in business terms and build controls, ownership, evidence, and remediation.

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Commercial and Vendor Management

Develop stronger judgement around cost, contracts, licensing, suppliers, options, and total cost of ownership.

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Executive Communication

Convert technical complexity into concise decisions, risks, recommendations, and management actions.

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People Leadership

Build capability through delegation, standards, coaching, accountability, succession, and team design.

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