Chief Technology Officer

Job description / Role

Our Client, one of the leading banks in the region, is seeking to employ a Chief Technology Officer, to be based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The position requires a Senior individual with extensive experience leading technology architecture and design within retail banking. The right Candidate will have in depth technology experience and be up to date with technology trends.

The role requires a proven leader, who possess strong leadership abilities and the ability to lead the technology team in implementing some major changes planned to take place over the next 4 years. Some of these initiatives include changes to some systems like Payment, ATM Switch, Loan management, Cash management & trade system and the Installation of tier 4 data center (the largest private one in the region).

The position offers a generous tax free salary of up to 275k USD plus bonus, annual ticket home, medical insurance and education allowance.

Job Purpose:

The CTO is a member of the banks ITs leadership team having primary responsibility to ensure that the banks IT solution is well engineered, operable, maintainable, aligns to product strategy/vision and provides the anticipated business value. The CTO is expected to provide solutions that are scalable, adaptable and sustainable to meet ever changing business needs.

Accountabilities:

Responsible to the CIO as the primary authority for IT Architecture and governance, across all specializations in enterprise and solutions architecture, as well as providing definitive leadership and direction for the critical transformational programmes within IT Development/ Solution Delivery.
Responsible for providing thought leadership across all aspects of banking IT. The CTO will direct those most promising new technologies for innovation investment and incubation through to commercial implementation and adoption and will ensure that the bank is able to adopt and benefit from emerging trends and technologies more quickly than its competitors.
Responsible for implementing the architecture/ solution governance procedures that ensure business change requests and projects initiated as a result use the most appropriate technologies and applications to deliver coordinated change to the IT estate.
Responsible for providing the solution/ development organization with timely advice, guidance and support in the selection and implementation of new and replacement applications and technologies, with a view to reducing complexity and improve the level of standardization and sharing for those services and components that are used by many.
Provide leadership & training to technical staff to develop a highly skilled cadre of IT Architecture, and Solutioning resources within the Bank

Requirements

Requirements:

Education / Qualifications:

Educated at minimum of degree level in relevant IT discipline.

Experience:

At least 10-15 years experience in IT Development and IT Architecture operating at senior management level.
Must be knowledgeable about current technology solution trends.
Experience of operating through the end to end Technology stack to create high value adding solutions for the business.
Experience of all core technologies used in Retail Banking
Successfully overseen major IT change Programmes from a Core on Technology, Governance and Architecture Perspective.
Should be very well experienced in IBM infrastructure technologies. (DB2, MQ broker, X-series, P-series etc, Change Management, IT-Operations and Models, SOA)

Attributes:

Excellent written and oral communication skills
Works with little direction & supervision
Strong leadership acumen, ability to push back and challenge.
Should have the ability to do more with less! Therefore the candidate needs to have a very hand on approach.
Initiative to resolve problems
Delivers to deadlines.

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