Chief Technology Officer - Software Development

The Purpose of This Role :

- Help define Technical Roadmap and own the entire product delivery end to end.

- Work very closely with various business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to drive the execution of multiple business plans and technologies.

- Works closely with multiple stakeholders globally and locally Customers business, Engineering, Architecture and Operations Teams

- Drive high standards on quality, delivering solutions on time and within budgeted cost.

Value You Will Deliver

- Deliver excellence in customer experience and value

- Build and sustain product engineering team(s). Hire and develop top talents. Continuously improve team efficiency and productivity.

- Setup and drive open, transparent culture within the team

- Adapt, champion and institute tool-based engineering governance. Setup processes and standards for engineering rigor adherence across projects

- Work with cross location teams to build functional and high-performance products in agile scrum

- Be responsible for guiding and leading product discovery, backlog grooming, execution, monitoring, and assigned features/ project(s) to keep on schedule and on budget.

- Monitor projects on an ongoing basis, evaluating progress and quality against defined threshold, managing issue resolution process, and taking corrective action as necessary

- Contribute towards growth of the existing account, support bootstrapping of new accounts.

- Contribute towards creation of IP and digital assets

Our Ideal Candidate comes with :

- Overall experience not exceeding 15+ years in building enterprise scale systems, key program delivery across multiple geographically disbursed teams.

- Experience includes at least 5 years in full lifecycle product engineering services (Core Banking/Transaction Banking/ Payments Experience preferred)

Functional Competency :

- IT Software Development, Digital Solutions, Digital Transformation background are mandatory.

- Sound understanding of technology & of software development methodologies especially as relating to developing custom products for customers

- A proven and consistent track record of meeting revenue targets.

- This is a senior position in our organization and requires strong execution, communication, and analytical abilities.

Technical Competency:

- Candidate in recent times has been hands-on in full-stack enterprise technologies on user interface, middleware frameworks and database management. Has deep understanding of multiple technology stacks/languages/tools and their pros/cons.

- Sound understanding of digital technologies in the areas of cloud, cognitive and devops.

- Owns and is accountable for the design and development of a product or major product sub-system

- Analyze project risks, issues, costs, and benefits and make relevant recommendations to business and IT leadership. Provide and implement action plans to mitigate risk when applicable

Behavioural Competency:

- Strong interpersonal communication skills

- Ability to lead initiatives and people toward common goals.

- Working knowledge of systems infrastructure

- Excellent oral and written communication, presentation, and analytical skills