Chief Technology Manager

In your role as Chief Technology Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing technological development and strategies ensuring alignment with AFC.

Your key responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of technology professionals (~210 FTE), fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Create the culture and environment that empowers our teams to deliver the objectives set by the global CIOs
• Contributes or performs deep-dive reviews of technical solutions designs produced by individual teams and advises and do handholding on their improvement and ensures compliance with strategy, architecture standards and re-use of existing assets.
• Guides development teams towards adoption of modern design patterns and champions use of technologies to achieve highly scalable and well supported systems Designs technical solutions for complex business problems.
• Create Engineering practices guidelines, modernization plans, identification of legacy technology and path to their decommissioning and create insights for management using the data and industry available tools. Identify the appropriate tools and support on engineering automation work e.g Test Automation, CICD etc. Find appropriate usecases for GCP movement and support teams in their GCP journey.
• Create insights for top management on the engineering maturity of the CB tech origination and support teams to attain the desired maturity.

Your skills and experience:

• Strong Engineering, Solution & Domain Architecture background, with proven track record of working in a very complex environment, knowledge in Banking Payment systems and/or Transaction Screening or AFC capabilities will be a plus.
• Experience with designing solutions in public cloud platforms (Professional architect certification beneficial)
• Up to date on modern architecture design patterns e.g. micro-services, streaming architectures, horizontal scalability, API design patterns, REST services, SOA principles, database systems, UI frameworks, enterprise integration patterns, modern SDLC practices
• Experience on CICD tools like Maven, Jenkins, github actions, Kubernetes etc.
• Passionate technologist with ability to deep dive into the code level with expert knowledge of the java ecosystem and ability contribute code in POCs, MVPs or project reviews.
• Strong interpersonal skills to manage relationships with a variety of partners and stakeholders. Ability to facilitate group sessions. Excellent communications skills, ability to respectfully challenge stakeholders think about differing options.
• Agile delivery knowledge and experience with running Dev Ops SRE squads
• Experience of working in a matrix organization with a proven track record of delivering the outcomes of a global organization, in a way that is sensitive to the local culture and engineering objectives.

Education & Certifications:

• A degree or masters in computer science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Finance, or a related field is essential.