Chief Technology Officer

Chief
Technology Officer

About myZoi

myZoi is an exciting fintech start-up
aiming to promote financial inclusion globally. Our vision is to provide a
level playing field to the unbanked and the underbanked in accessing essential
financial services in an affordable, convenient, and transparent fashion. We
are looking for smart, ambitious, and purpose driven individuals to join us in
this journey.

This is an opportunity to join myZoi as
a 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

Technical
Skills

- 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.

Other
Responsibilities

- 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 and
Talent

- 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.

Key
Stakeholders

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

Required Qualifications /
Skills / Experience

Subject matter knowledge and
experience

- 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
The role
holder is authorised to manage and operate within the scope of the roles and
responsibilities outlined above. Role holders are not authorised beyond the
scope of this job description unless they have a formal delegation of
authority.