Chief Technology Officer - Financial Firm

Experience : 7 - 10 Years

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Heading the Technical & Operations Team and to understand the requirements from/coordinate with the technical team/vendors of the banks to effectively influence decision and ensure technical delivery.

- Optimizing and managing existing information technology network in a manner it delivers high efficiency with sufficient resilience and yet managing costs effectively.

- Developing strategic plans and setting timelines for evaluation, development, and deployment of all technical services.

- Recommending information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by understanding and evaluating client and project requirements.

- Preparing requests for proposals and conducting all necessary meetings to facilitate the execution of project.

- Direct interaction with client to understand the requirements and provide appropriate solutions.

- Facilitate conversations between technical team, stakeholders, quality assurance, testing team, finance team, customers etc.

- Identify, compare, select and implement technology solutions to meet current and future needs

- Ensuring company's technological processes and service comply with all requirements, laws, and regulations

- Develop technical aspects of the company's strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals

- Supervising quality assurance processes, integration, and system tests

- Studying information processing systems to evaluate effectiveness and make recommendations for improvement

- Represent the technological agenda in staff meetings and when making hiring decisions

- Work closely with Marketing, Business Development and Operations to define and deliver new products and enhancements

- Developing long term plans to sustain and support the business, anticipating the future trends.

- Ensure systems performance, availability and satisfy service level requirements.

- Maintain current information about technology standards and compliance regulations.

- Studying current and new industry trends, technologies, and software development.

- Assist with the recruitment, retention, acquisition and sales efforts of the company. Build relationships with vendors, communities and customers.

Desired Skills & Experience:

- Relevant educational qualification in field of information technology, computer science, or a technology related discipline.

- 4+ years experience in software development role, information technology role, or related field.

- Knowledge of technological trends to build strategy

- Understanding of budgets and business-planning

- Excellent communication skills

- Leadership and organizational abilities

- Strategic thinking

- Problem-solving aptitude

- Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently

- Able to build strong interpersonal relationships with peers, brand leaders, and other senior management throughout the company - 

Experience with technology relative to industry: Java, Python, C/C++, RDBMS.