CIO

- Strategic Architecture & Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership for in-house developed systems architecture, system integration and long-term strategic planning. - SDLC Oversight & Quality Assurance: Oversee the software development life cycle for major projects, including design reviews, coding standards, build and release process, and quality assurance. - DevOps & Automation Strategy: Promote and guide the automation of all practices, encompassing coding, build and release automation, automated quality assurance, and post-release monitoring. - Team Leadership & Talent Development: Recruit and mentor a team with deep technical expertise. - Vendor Management & Strategic Sourcing: Assist in selecting vendor products and services to enhance in-house capabilities, manage vendors relationships, and ensure high-quality implementations. - IT Culture & Agile Transformation: Foster a collaborative and innovative IT culture that enables agile responses to business demands while maintaining adherence to technical strategy. - Business Alignment & Technical Pragmatism: Establish a healthy balance between technical elegance and a commercial mindset. - Security, Compliance & Risk Management: Prioritise safety by ensuring compliance with regulations and firm policies, maintaining high security, and designing robust architectures for high availability and maintainability, while avoiding over-engineered solutions. Requirements - University degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field. - At least 10 years of relevant experience in IT leadership roles, with a proven track record of owning architectures and delivering end-to-end enterprise-level services, across multiple markets and products. - Demonstrate proven leadership experience in building in-house development teams and delivering technical architectures. Previous exposure to migrating from legacy mainframe architectures to modern modular designs is highly desirable. - Exhibit extensive experience in formulating solution designs, developing large-scale systems, and providing comprehensive system lifecycle support. Possess practical technical expertise in programming structures, transaction processing, modularisation, memory management, messaging, performance tuning, storage, virtualization, zero trust, and high availability. - Have domain experience in post-trade processing, custody, asset servicing, valuations, collateral management, tax reporting, and regulatory compliance.