Jade Thomas
Jade Thomas
Engineering Manager Online Channels @ BNZ
After a couple of decades of software development, Jade accidentally found himself in an engineering leadership role. Initially not keen on the engineering manager title, as he never saw himself as a manager, but enticed by the hope of having some influence in building a better environment for engineers to flourish. Jade fights to keep the management part of the role to a minimum while trying to stay relevant and valuable to engineers.
Over the last 4 years as manager, Jade has been involved in reshaping BNZ online banking ways of working — standardising and industrialising their software patterns, increasing their scalability and reliability — all while the organisation reshapes their technology business unit.
The fine line between chaos and order
About
Financial institutions have a reputation for being slow and cumbersome with software delivery, and there is often a good reason for that: we deal with your money.
The consequences of any mishap can be enormous; not just financial and reputational, but also remediation imposed by regulators can be crippling.
However, at what point does this lack of agility become a risk, and how do you balance speed to market, compliance and certainty?
When
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Where
Room RHLT1
Rutherford House
Pipitea Campus
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand