We are looking for a senior technology leader to scale and expand our financial technology platform as the company grows across markets, products, partners, and regions. This role is suited for someone who can operate both strategically and hands-on when needed, with a focus on building systems, teams, ownership models, and engineering disciplines that are not reliant on a single individual.
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Responsibilities:
- Own technology strategy, architecture, engineering delivery, and platform operations.
- Ensure high availability, resilience, observability, and incident readiness across critical systems.
- Support the company’s cybersecurity posture across ISIEM, SOC, DLP, EDR/XDR, vulnerability management, penetration testing, threat modeling, monitoring, incident response, and security awareness.
- Lead the practical adoption of Agentic AI across engineering and technology operations.
- Strengthen security, compliance, audit readiness, access controls, data protection, and secure SDLC practices.
- Build and mature NOC/SOC capabilities, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, escalation, and post-incident reviews.
- Scale the platform and technical team for geographical expansion, addressing multi-market readiness, localization needs, regulatory expectations, and infrastructure scalability.
- Manage technical relationships with third-party providers of core services.
- Improve ownership models, documentation, Runbooks, SLAs, and operational accountability.
- Partner with Product, Finance, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and executive leadership.
- Reduce key-person dependency and help build a reliable leadership structure across engineering and operations.
Qualifications and Experience:
- 10+ years of senior technology leadership experience in roles such as VP Engineering/Technology or Head of Engineering/Technology.
- Experience in fintech, specifically in issuing, acquiring, or banking.
- Proven track record in scaling reliable, secure, compliant production systems.
- Demonstrated ability in the adaptation of Agentic AI and achieving productivity gains.
- Experience in building engineering teams, technical operations, and NOC/SOC processes.
- Familiarity with regulatory implementations such as ISO27001, SAMA, SOC2, and PCI DSS.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, backend platforms, APIs, data systems, observability, disaster recovery, and incident management.
- Ability to operate across strategy, architecture, execution, people leadership, and executive communication.
