Chief Technology Officer

ChiefTechnology Officer          

About myZoi

myZoi is an exciting fintech start-upaiming to promote financial inclusion globally. Our vision is to provide alevel playing field to the unbanked and the underbanked in accessing essentialfinancial services in an affordable, convenient, and transparent fashion. Weare looking for smart, ambitious, and purpose driven individuals to join us inthis journey.

This is an opportunity to join myZoi asa Chief Technology Officer. The role will be based in the UAE.

Key Responsibilities

Business

• Working with the CEO, CPO, Product Owners, and partners to lead technology build, evaluate technology trade-offs, oversee vendor engineering engagements, and deliver features and capabilities aligned to the business model to build on the minimum viable product (MVP) to successful global rollout.
  
• The Chief Technology Officer will discuss with partners, fintechs, co-creation clients, and business to expand the Company’s product offering and geographical footprint.
  
• Co-ordinate, question and interrogate technology opportunities with engineering team and innovate to sustain a competitive advantage. 
  
• Employ a managerial mindset that seeks to optimise business outcomes for the Company while establishing sound governance, internal processes, adherence to policies and standards. This role requires close coordination with the SC Ventures CTO.
  
• Thought leadership and demonstratable subject matter expertise on use of machine learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, APIs, cyber security, DevSecOps and similar technology applications.
  
• Establish a sound technology operation covering incident management, problem management, service levels (SLAs) and business continuity processes
  

TechnicalSkills

• Expert knowledge of mainstream cloud provider (AWS), Cloud-native services, and elastic infrastructure.
  
• Expert background in .NET technology stack, distributed systems, authentication mechanisms, asynchronous event processing, message queues, and architecture patterns.
  
• Knowledgeable on modern object orientated programming practises including entity frameworks, dynamic reflection, and reusable interfaces. 
  
• Familiarity with 3rd party system integrations via APIs (HTTP/REST), host-to-host (file exchange by FTP), with background jobs processing of real-time, event triggered, and async automations.
  
• Familiar with OWASP, secure by design, secure coding practises, code scanning, unit testing, dependency management (deprecation, vulnerabilities, licensing)
  
• Extensive experience with DevOps including pipeline, release management, multi AWS account deployments. 
  
• Required experience in front-end AngularJS, and good to have familiarity with modular frameworks such as ASP.NET Boilerplate, ASPNetZero, ABP.IO
  
• Overseeing scrum teams, engineers, and ensuring reliable delivery of sprints, change management of features and bug fixes, and backlog
  
• Experience with operating highly-available production financial systems 
  
• Familiarity with SQL databases, DNS, service discovery, and related infrastructure components
  
• Ability to wear multiple hats such as individual contributor, team lead, solution architect, facilitator. 
  
• Beneficial is knowledge of FinTech ecosystem, inclusive of Blockchain, Digital Payments, Primer Services and Transaction Banking Enhancements, as well as other innovations in this space.
  

OtherResponsibilities

• Have expertise and professional experience in software development and deep understanding of technology delivery.
  
• Participate in assessing and hiring technical personnel and support the growth in aggressive go-to-market plans.
  
• Familiarity with ERP and financial systems (purchase orders, invoices, receipts) is desirable. 
  
• Participate with anchor and banks / financial service providers in establishing new integrations.
  
• Engage with relevant Standard Chartered Functions including Technology and Information and Cyber Security (ICS) for governance and key-control-indicators.
  
• Advantageous to have experience in ITIL and ISO27001
  

People andTalent 

• Lead by example and build the appropriate culture and values.
  
• Create a motivational and challenging environment in the team which is conducive to creativity and delivery of the strategy. 
  

Governance 

• Act and escalate quickly when any risk and control weakness become apparent and ensure they are addressed within an appropriate timeframe and escalated through the relevant committees. 
  

• Work with multiple stakeholders to establish applicable risk / control framework to ensure that the Group’s ability to remain within risk appetite is not materially threatened. 
  
• Familiarise self with governance structures and mandatory processes the Company and the Group.
  

Regulatory& Business Conduct 

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
  
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across the Company. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
  
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
  

 KeyStakeholders

• Chief Executive Officer
  
• Chief Product Officer
  
• Chief Informsation Security Officer
  
• Chief Operation Officer
  
• Leadership Team
  
• Technology department
  

Required Qualifications /Skills / Experience

Subject matter knowledge andexperience

• 15 years’ experience in similar technology leadership role 
  
• Experience in startups & technology companies a major plus
  
• Understanding and appreciation for the complexities of the Group’s footprint
  
• Motivated to address the impact of innovation technology in Financial Services
  

Skills and characteristics

• Imaginative and creative approach to how we do work 
  
• Curiosity about new technologies, workflows, and products
  
• Ability to see things from multiple perspectives, as well as ask the question “why” continuously
  
• Tireless work ethic and enthusiasm to execute and get things done