Job Brief:

This position will be a key member of the leadership team, responsible for shaping and executing the company's end-to-end technology and strategy. This role requires a forward-thinking technologist with a strong business orientation, proven experience in scaling digital platforms, and a deep understanding of the fintech regulatory landscape.

Key Responsibilities :

- Define and execute a long-term technology roadmap aligned with business strategy and market demands.

- Determine organization needs and identify system specifications.

- Serve as a strategic partner to the CTO in driving technology-led growth and digital innovation.

- Translate emerging technologies into competitive business capabilities.

- Oversee development and implementation of assigned programs and guide teammates.

- Architect, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance systems and platforms.

- Plan and design the structure of technology systems, discuss these with the client.

- Communicate system requirements to software designers and developers; explain system structure to them and provide assistance throughout the assembly process.

- Oversee the design and deployment of core fintech products, APIs, and data infrastructure.

- Establish best-in-class software development, DevOps, QA, and release management practices.

- Ensure silent operations while continuously reducing cost of IT operations for running the business

- Ensure IT infrastructure and application support to provide 24-7 business operations

- Produce progress reports, AI and ML exposures. Agentic AI understandings.

- Champion a security-first culture; ensure infrastructure and applications meet or exceed industry standards (e.g., PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2).

- Collaborate with legal, risk, and compliance teams to integrate regulatory requirements (KYC/AML, data privacy, etc.) into product design and infrastructure.

- Collaborate with business to incrementally improve IT landscape to meet business goals

- Application and infrastructure modernization

- Support and address issues identified during internal and external audits

- Attract, retain, and mentor top-tier engineering, data, and product talent.

- Foster a high-performance culture built on accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

- Scale global technology teams across geographies while maintaining velocity and cohesion.

- Work with team to devise plans for future IT requirements of the organization.

- Partner with Product, Operations, Finance, and Business stakeholders to align technology investments with customer value and operational efficiency.

- Represent technology leadership in investor and partner engagements, where appropriate.

- Collaborate with Product Management and Business to deploy technology led/enabled innovative solutions

Professional Experience :

- 18+ years in software engineering and technology leadership roles, with at least 12+ years at the executive level.

- Deep fintech domain experience-ideally in payments, supply chain finance, banking, lending, digital assets, or related sectors.

- Proven experience scaling cloud-native, microservices-based platforms to enterprise-grade standards.

- Strong understanding of the technical architecture along with infra estimation planning based upon ongoing/future usage of system.

- Experience in working with relational database like Oracle, proficient in using SQL and migration process to Non RDBMS.

- Proficiency in system architecture, API-first design, real-time data processing, and distributed systems.

- Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and modern engineering practices.

- Strong understanding of cybersecurity, data governance, and compliance frameworks.