[Hiring] Transformation Lead @Axos Bank

Role Description

AXOS Bank is a digital-first financial institution redefining banking through customer and operational innovation. The FVP, Transformation Lead part of Business Consulting Practice is a Lead Transformation Architect position encompassing Business & Technical Architecture and Program Management. The Business Consulting Practice is part of the Office of Transformation embedded within the Bank's transformation engine, responsible for identifying, designing, and accelerating high-impact operational improvements across Consumer & Commercial Banks and Securities Business Units.

The FVP, Transformation Lead will be responsible for managing a portfolio across 2–5 concurrent Transformation Programs, depending on the breadth and depth of each Program, operating through Strategy, Planning and Implementation Phases. They work within a defined Program Team leveraging our established Transformation Approach & Methodology Framework to accelerate delivery cycles and serve as trusted advisors to Business Units / Functions leaders across the enterprise.

• Lead Transformation Programs across a portfolio across multiple concurrent enterprise-level AXOS Initiatives, Modernization Projects and Process Optimization Programs delivering Business-Unit / Function Transformation Programs from Strategy, Planning & Implementation through benefits realization.
• Identify, prioritize, and quantify high-impact operational improvement opportunities; and build clear business cases for justification.
• Drive rapid, AI-enabled process redesign with a strong bias toward execution and measurable outcomes.
• Translate complex analysis into executive-ready insights; prepare and present recommendations to senior leadership.
• Act as a trusted advisor and change agent, ensuring adoption, governance alignment, and post-implementation performance tracking.
• Partner with Project Management (PMO) and cross-functional teams to ensure delivery discipline, timeline adherence, and accountability across all aspects of the SDLC cycle particularly with third-party systems integration vendors.
• Experience working with or part of Systems Integration Vendors (including onshore, nearshore and offshore models) delivering Business & Technology Transformation Programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or equivalent consulting delivery experience preferred.
• 10-15+ years of consulting, transformation, or operational strategy experience in financial services, fintech, technology, or digital-first organizations.
• Proven ability to deliver measurable, time-bound transformation outcomes with executive visibility while managing multiple concurrent Programs.
• Hands-on experience applying AI tools and automation in consulting or operational contexts; strong agile, deployment-focused delivery mindset.
• Executive presence with the ability to influence without authority; structured, outcome-oriented communicator.
• Understanding and experience driving business and operations improvement consulting approaches and methodologies that serve as a framework for delivering Transformation Programs.
• Understanding and experience leading Transformation Programs where industry-leading Workflow Platforms & Applications are designed and implemented across multiple Business Units / Functions.
• Understanding and experience managing and driving all components of the SDLC from scope management to user story development to development management (including application tool sets) to testing (Unit, QA, Regression & UAT) to release management to go live and benefit measurement.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance.
• Paid Sick Leave, 3 weeks’ Vacation, and Holidays (about 11 a year).
• HSA or FSA account and other voluntary benefits.
• 401(k) Retirement Saving Plan with Employer Match Program and 529 Savings Plan.
• Employee Mortgage Loan Program and free access to an Axos Bank Account with Self-Directed Trading.