Chief Information Officer / CTO

This is a senior role that involves leading Fintech and get to work amongst the sharpest minds in the banking fraternity (Indian and global) in Product and Technology. This is a challenging role which expects the incumbent to work with constant agility with various teams and deliver the best products in the space using effective technology platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and build the engineering team, manage product engineering, release and deployment across geographies and work closely with the Product Teams.
• You will also play an integral role in the evolution of the architecture and product roadmaps in the rapidly growing product suite.
• Contribute to next-generation platform architecture vision.
• Drive and own multiple technology initiatives for bringing Platform vision to life.
• Ensure platforms are designed for scale, availability and performance using microservices architecture and as per API first design principles across geographies.
• Review and recommend improvements to operational processes and procedures utilising automation.
• Responsible for key technical and product decisions.
• Implement best practices to ensure security and availability - devise processes and mechanisms to ensure expected uptime of production applications.
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture references, change management and reporting.
• Responsible for debugging critical technical issues inside a complex stack involving Spring Boot microservices, containers, cloud services, etc.
• Work closely with product/project teams as well as clients and help provide relevant inputs from the engineering team.
• Partnering closely with product teams to scope out releases and deliver high-quality output.
• Coordinate and direct project execution, detailing plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities.
• Collaborating with peers to design and implement new operational capabilities as well as improving the existing toolset.
• From the technology perspective, mentoring other leads in the organisation.
• Forge and instil goals and standards for engineering performance.
• Implementing best-practice engineering methods.
• Mentoring and supporting the team by reinforcing practices such as Test-Driven Development, pair programming, refactoring, enhanced observability and documentation.
• Present technical solutions, problem areas, and proof of concepts to the team or wider audience.
• Participate in cross-team coordinated development activities.
• Create and deliver on the long-term roadmap for engineering efficiency.
• Be the go-to person for non-functional requirements such as scalability and performance.
• Measure and ensure engineering and product delivery goals are met, at an acceptable velocity and without trading off quality and performance.
• Ensure smooth communication channels within the team and with all stakeholders involved in the product development and delivery process.
• Experience adopting and deploying FOSS tools in production.
• Architecture and technical performance design (and reviews) for each engineer's system.
• Essentially, this role entails combining the best of a project manager AND a technical architect.