Chief Technology Officer

Overview

In this role you will lead the global technology team building cutting-edge risk, analytics and trading solutions. You will drive real-time performance improvements and modernise databases within a growing organization. You’ll work closely with cross-functional colleagues to shape the technical strategy and deliver scalable software for top financial institutions. This is a hands-on leadership position with strategic impact and a clear growth path for the team.

Responsibilities

• Lead a global team of 20 developers and 20 technologists, owning the technology direction and delivery
• Mentor and manage the technology organisation with dotted-line responsibility for Quant Analysts
• Drive real-time performance enhancements and modernization of databases
• Oversee end-to-end software development, architecture, and system scalability
• Foster collaboration with cross-functional teams and maintain a strong engineering culture
• Support business growth, planning to scale the team by ~10 in the next year
• Maintain deep understanding of financial products and risk-related software
• Hands-on involvement and recent coding expertise in C++ or C# as needed

Key requirements

• BSc (ideally MSc) in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related technical field
• Mentoring or management experience
• Strong software development background
• Experience in software analysis, design and development
• Good understanding of real-time distributed systems
• Experience developing financial software, ideally within risk
• Experience in financial services
• Strong coding ability with hands-on C++ or C#
• Experience with scaling systems and database technology

• leadership and people management
• mentoring
• strategic thinking
• C++
• C#
• SQL

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