Key Responsibilities:
- Developing technical aspects of the company's strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals.
- Providing deep technology insights to the Executive Leadership Team and influence strategic business decisions.
- Defining product strategy and delivering Product vision through Agile Product Development processes.
- Identifying and leveraging the emerging-technologies/trends to continually innovate in Fintech space.
- Implementing strategic changes into the technology to improve efficiency.
- Using stakeholders feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology
- Overseeing data security, management, and governance.
- Manage strategic vendor and technology partner relationships.
- Managing Technology Staff to ensure they achieve their objectives linked with the business strategy and success.
- Building self-motivated teams that build high end scalable solutions from scratch.
- Monitoring KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance.
- Establishing and managing clear vision, goals, and objectives.
- Working with human resources and other functions to establish inclusive and conducive work culture with the assistance from advisors.
Qualification and Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / Information Technology or related field or equivalent combination of industry-related professional experience and education.
- Master's Degree in Computer Science / Information Technology / Management (IT or Project or Product) preferred but not mandatory.
- 15+ years of management experience in a technology role.
- Advanced technological skill sets and a demonstrated history with technology.
- Broad knowledge of software engineering languages, frameworks, techniques, and industry trends.
- Excellent communication (verbal and written), public speaking and presentation skills.
- Exceptional leadership and organizational skills.
- Entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to see the big picture.
- Ability to function as a motivator, a great leader, and an out-of-the-box thinker.
- Demonstrated ability to manage a product through its life-cycle planning, analysis, design, and improvement phases.
- Expert in developing and designing scalable products/applications, delivering practical solutions to hard technical challenges in distributed systems.
- Demonstrated ability to recruit and retain high performing technology teams
- Powerful blend of technology, vision, and business acumen with expertise in full project life cycle management and client/vendor relationship management.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, Angular / .NET / SQL development, Workflow / automation platforms (e.g., Tibco) a plus.
- Experience with big data ingestion, movement, and integration (Data Engineering competency a plus).
- Graph technologies and NLP machine learning are a plus.
