We are partnering with a leading financial services platform undergoing a large-scale technology transformation. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for driving execution across a complex, multi-entity environment.
The CTO will play a critical role in translating strategy into delivery — owning the execution roadmap, prioritising change initiatives, and ensuring consistent, high-quality technology delivery across the organisation.
The Company
Our client is a fast-growing financial services group operating across multiple business lines within a regulated environment. With a strong focus on digital transformation, platform modernisation, and AI-led innovation, the organisation is investing heavily in building scalable, future-ready technology capabilities.
The Position
The Chief Technology Officer is accountable for execution of the technology change agenda — owning the implementation roadmap, coordinating delivery across entities, and ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and strategic objectives.
This is not a pure architecture or BAU operations role. The CTO sits at the centre of delivery, ensuring that transformation initiatives are executed effectively — from mobilisation through engineering, deployment, and transition into operations.
The role operates within a federated model, working closely with architecture, platform engineering, and entity-level teams to deliver both shared and entity-specific technology initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Own end-to-end execution and implementation roadmap across all technology change initiatives
Prioritise and sequence the technology change portfolio, ensuring alignment with business goals
Drive in-country delivery of entity-specific transformation programmes, including product, platform, and integration initiatives
Provide governance over shared platform builds, ensuring alignment with business requirements and delivery timelines
Build and lead high-performing engineering and delivery teams, including internal squads and vendor ecosystems
Implement modern engineering practices including DevSecOps, CI/CD, test automation, and SRE
Oversee vendor and system integrator performance, ensuring quality, cost, and timeline adherence
Ensure seamless change-to-run transition, with strong operational readiness and handover protocols
Drive platform modernisation, including cloud migration, legacy decommissioning, and infrastructure automation
Champion AI-enabled engineering and delivery, improving speed, quality, and productivity
Track and improve delivery performance metrics including lead time, deployment frequency, and reliability
Candidate Profile
12–15+ years of leadership experience in technology delivery, engineering, and large-scale transformation
Strong background in financial services or regulated industries
Proven track record delivering complex, multi-entity technology programmes
Hands-on engineering foundation with strong understanding of modern architecture and development practices
Deep expertise in cloud, microservices, DevOps, and platform engineering
Experience managing large engineering teams (50+), including vendors and system integrators
Exposure to AI-enabled engineering practices and automation-led delivery
Ability to operate in a matrix and federated organisation structure
Why This Role
Opportunity to drive end-to-end technology execution in a transformation environment
Direct exposure to executive leadership and strategic decision-making
Build and scale modern engineering capabilities in an emerging market
High-impact role shaping the organisation’s digital and platform future
