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🔘 Our client is an innovative company specializing in financial services and telecommunications.
We employ cutting-edge technology and innovative strategies to provide high-quality services and products to our clients.
🔘 The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is a senior executive responsible for the technological direction and strategy of Emida as well as all company technology and technological resources.
🔘 Responsibilities:
→ The CTO is responsible for developing and implementing technology solutions that support the company's business objectives and help it gain a competitive advantage in the market.
→ S\he will establish the company technology vision, strategies, and plans for growth and ensure that the technology strategy and business strategy are aligned.
→ The CTO will work with the Executive Team to grow the company using2 technological resources.
→ S\he will be responsible for the technology vision and understand how each technical decision fits into the vision and goals of the company.
→ The CTO will own the development methodology and ensure that milestones and timelines are met and will be able to provide options and articulate tradeoffs for the product based on customer input.
→ S\he will recruit and develop a top-notch technical team.
🔘 Essential functions (essential functions of the position include but are not limited to the following. Other duties may be assigned):
• Setting the technology vision for the company, leading the company’s technological development, and aligning it with the business goals.
• Developing and implementing technology strategy and roadmap.
• Leading and managing the technology team.
• Identifying and evaluating new technologies and opportunities for adoption.
• Managing budgets and resources for technology projects.
• Collaborating with other departments to understand their technology needs and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Providing technical guidance and support to the rest of the organization.
• Building and maintaining relationships with technology partners and vendors.
• Ensuring the company's technology systems are secure and compliant with industry regulations.
• Develop strategic plans and set timelines for evaluating, developing, and deploying all technical, infrastructure, cloud, web, and mobile services.
• Oversee and manage all processes relating to all cloud and infrastructure service management.
• Ensure alignment between company vision/strategy and product /service offerings.
• Routinely engage with Directors, VP, C-level executives, and governing boards for large enterprises and their strategy consulting partners.
• Collaborate with cross-functionally as an advisor of all technologies involved with the company.
• Identify, lead, and contribute to creating best practices, processes, white papers, workshops, etc.
• Ensure technology, regulatory standards, and best practices are met and used efficiently, profitably, and securely.
• Monitor service and platform analytics (including cloud and web analytics) and make marketing and technical recommendations aligning with business goals.
• Supervise quality assurance processes, integration, and system tests.
• Establish software development process to best practices and relevant regulations and set process objectives.
• Mentor and develop team members.
• Monitor business technical services, infrastructure, and delivery performance profiling tools and procedures.
• Managing and overseeing adherence to security best practices and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and implement risk mitigation and disaster recovery plan.
• Defining company standards for systems, equipment, and software.
• Be current on new industry trends, technologies, and software development.
• Evaluate internal systems and make recommendations to improve effectiveness.
• Represent the company at conferences and networking events.
• Ensuring the company’s technological processes and service comply with all requirements, laws, and regulations.
• Maintain strategic relationships with third parties that provide us with support services in some of our integrated solutions.
• Promote ownership & accountability among the team for the product, functionality, and iterations they produce.
• Promote a culture focused on user experience so that functional and non-functional expectations of the services offered and delivered are met. In the same way, act as a consultant better to guide clients regarding trends in look and feel, usability, security, and technology.
• Using agile methodologies in team management, code generation, and documentation, establish connection bridges between Development, QA, and the other areas of the company, including our final client.
• User Documentation -- Generate all the documentation related to the solutions delivered according to the different actors and stakeholders participating in the process, such that the solutions can be effectively deployed into the production systems and utilized by the associated stakeholders.
• Backup and recovery: Ensure that there are code restoration paths in case of loss of connection and/or servers.
• Continuous integration: guarantee that the continuous integration process is fully complied with so that in the final delivery of the version, there is as little human intervention as possible from the development team to the IT team.
• Test environments: Guarantee that the test environments are closest to the configuration used in production for each geography and client and that said environments are used efficiently without spending a lot of time in configuration and or startup of the same.
• Test cycles: enforce the different test cycles according to the deliveries to be made and include, among others: unit tests, integration, functional, regression, and performance. In addition, include here all processes of tuning of test environments and build of testing scripts.
• Development environments: ensure that the machines, servers, databases, and tools for the correct development of solutions are adequate and more efficient.
🔘 Qualifications/skills:
• The CTO role requires a solid technical background and the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business terms.
• They should also have excellent leadership and communication skills, as they will manage a team and communicate the company's technology vision to stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to be a “big picture” thinker.
• Ability to encourage team and staff; ability to mentor and lead.
• Excellent leadership, team building, and management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to interact and communicate with senior C-level executives.
• Outstanding written and oral communication and the ability to give presentations to a broad spectrum of audiences, both internally and externally.
• Ability to skillfully manage, develop, motivate, inspire, and direct others in a fast-paced, dynamic, entrepreneurial environment.
• Highly collaborative with team orientation; flexible in personal interactions at all company levels.
• Creative, strategic, and thoughtful “hands-on” leader with “can-do” leadership approach.
• Results and goal oriented with the ability to demonstrate excellent judgment, solution orientation, and appropriate level of risk-taking.
• Exceptionally strong leadership profile with executive presence and passion for the mission.
• Able to align multiple strategies and ideas.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of financial services and the fintech industry.
• Ability/ willingness to travel.
• Must understand, follow, and comply with regulatory requirements as applicable to various processes.
🔘 Required education and experience:
• BS Degree in a technical field, advance degree preferred.
• Experience leading software development in a regulated environment.
• 15 years in software development-5+ years in a technical leadership role developing commercial software applications.
• Fintech experience coupled with SaaS experience.
• Experience building and managing cloud-based services, a plus.
• Experience with cost engineering Cloud environments to ensure Customers operate at the lowest cost per Customer footprint with integrated continuous cost improvement.
• Experience building a data architecture to support big data analytics, a plus.
• Experience improving the speed of refactoring generational software releases using innovative Agile methods for Modular development and release and SW version control.
• Experience leading change from a model to microservices architecture, a plus.
• Experience with ITSM processes and ITIL, along with integration experience of Cloud solutions and services with enterprise IT Service Management systems and processes.
• Experience in a fast-paced, startup (or startup-like) environment and experience.
• Experience with DevOps, Continuous Development, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration, and MicroServices.
