CERES Group · 1 week ago
Chief Technology Officer CTO - Financial Services
CERES Group is a financial services company seeking a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead their technology initiatives. The role involves overseeing software engineering and architecture teams, driving platform transformation towards a cloud-native future, and fostering AI adoption to enhance operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
Technology Leadership: Oversee Software Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Architecture teams with full delivery accountability, while delegating day-to-day operations
Platform Transformation: Lead the evolution of the technology and delivery infrastructure toward a cloud-native future state, emphasizing time-to-market, operational excellence, performance, resiliency, and security
Portfolio Alignment: Drive a unified technology portfolio across Engineering, our front to back solution, SaaS, and other business units to ensure consistency and strategic alignment
Architectural Vision: Define and champion a long-range architecture that enables the company to deliver industry-leading F2B solutions
DevOps Enablement: Establish streamlined processes for continuous integration and deployment, accelerating code-to-production cycles through DevOps methodologies
Financial Partnership: Collaborate with Finance and the Executive team to optimize technology spend, reduce client costs, and maximize customer success
Security Oversight: Own and manage all software security concerns across the product suite, ensuring compliance and proactive risk mitigation
AI Adoption: Spearhead the adoption of Artificial Intelligence across internal platforms and processes to enhance automation, decision-making, and operational efficiency
Growth Strategy: Drive the technology roadmap to support the company’s ambition of becoming a billion-dollar, technology-led enterprise
One: Partner with leadership to drive bring out collective strategy and vision to life. Promote collaboration within the different business lines. There will be a dual reporting line into CIO to help ensure alignment
Client Engagement: Articulate the company’s technology roadmap and philosophy to clients and prospects, linking innovation to business value
Sales Enablement: Support the sales process by positioning the company’s platform as the premier solution in the marketplace
Market Intelligence: Contribute to business development by researching emerging technologies and market trends that influence technology and operations strategy
Strategic Evaluation: Lead technical and organizational assessments of potential acquisitions and partnerships to support growth and innovation
Brand Advocacy: Partner with Marketing to strengthen the company’s digital presence and represent the brand at conferences, media events, and industry forums
AI-Driven Client Solutions: Champion the use of Artificial Intelligence in client-facing products and services to deliver differentiated value and competitive advantage
Qualification
Required
Oversee Software Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Architecture teams with full delivery accountability, while delegating day-to-day operations
Lead the evolution of the technology and delivery infrastructure toward a cloud-native future state, emphasizing time-to-market, operational excellence, performance, resiliency, and security
Drive a unified technology portfolio across Engineering, our front to back solution, SaaS, and other business units to ensure consistency and strategic alignment
Define and champion a long-range architecture that enables the company to deliver industry-leading F2B solutions
Establish streamlined processes for continuous integration and deployment, accelerating code-to-production cycles through DevOps methodologies
Collaborate with Finance and the Executive team to optimize technology spend, reduce client costs, and maximize customer success
Own and manage all software security concerns across the product suite, ensuring compliance and proactive risk mitigation
Spearhead the adoption of Artificial Intelligence across internal platforms and processes to enhance automation, decision-making, and operational efficiency
Drive the technology roadmap to support the company's ambition of becoming a billion-dollar, technology-led enterprise
Partner with leadership to drive bring out collective strategy and vision to life. Promote collaboration within the different business lines. There will be a dual reporting line into CIO to help ensure alignment
Articulate the company's technology roadmap and philosophy to clients and prospects, linking innovation to business value
Support the sales process by positioning the company's platform as the premier solution in the marketplace
Contribute to business development by researching emerging technologies and market trends that influence technology and operations strategy
Lead technical and organizational assessments of potential acquisitions and partnerships to support growth and innovation
Partner with Marketing to strengthen the company's digital presence and represent the brand at conferences, media events, and industry forums
Champion the use of Artificial Intelligence in client-facing products and services to deliver differentiated value and competitive advantage
Company
CERES Group
Ceres means "to grow" and we are helping technology organizations Grow IT Together.
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