tiqmo Looking for Chief Technology Officer (KSA) at Saudi , Riyadh Full Time

Job Summary:

We are looking for a Chief Technology Officer, KSA, who is responsible for overseeing all technical aspects and technological resources of an organization for the purpose of organizational growth. The Chief Technology Officer of KSA will work with Executive Management to grow the company with technological resources. Using an active and practical approach, the Chief Technology Officer, KSA will direct all employees in the Technology Department to attain the company’s strategic goals established in the company’s strategic plan.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership as the Company’s top technology expert and peer partner on the executive management team; collaborate closely with the CEO and other executive leadership.
• Lead and develop our global technology team. Transform the technology architecture to support the company’s growth ambitions, building scalable and durable platform solutions, as well as buying and customizing best-in-class software products.
• Own Tiqmo’s technology strategy to support business growth, new country launches, feature development, and economies of scale, in both production and offline environments.
• Establish engineering processes for software development metrics, DevOps, quantitative techniques, and quality control. Drive work with transparency and accountability.
• Work closely with the product leadership team to align technology strategy with internal and customer expectations. Furthermore, work with stakeholders to develop requirements, ascertain priorities, and report progress.
• Manage the selection and interdependencies of programming languages, frameworks, operating systems, internet-cloud, web-application servers, databases, and mobile.
• Manage the software development lifecycle by collaborating across teams to evolve SDLC, including functional requirements analysis, design specification, technical code review, project planning, and implementation of applications and systems.
• Identify organizational gaps within the tech team to achieve company objectives. Plan, recruit, retain, and build capacity accordingly.
• Ensure effective, sustainable development hubs across Santa Monica, Nairobi, and Bangalore, staffed with the necessary technical talent in alignment with the product roadmap.
• Build exceptional recruiting and retention capabilities.
• Coach, mentor, and develop Tala’s technical managers on their journey of learning and growth as inspiring and effective people managers.
• Expand company-wide culture of data-driven thinking. Ensure data collection and availability across all dimensions of Tala’s products, internal tools, and business metrics. Provide effective tooling and training to the company to leverage data, day-to-day thinking, and decisions. Enable experimenters to ship safe, informative experiments across the entire Tala product flow in a self-service platform.

Qualifications:

• Ability to lead and coordinate distinct functions within a global and/or distributed technology organization both onshore and offshore (Managerial experience: 100+ people, 5+ years).
• Organizational design, capacity planning, recruiting, and proven ability to scale teams 2x+.
• Strategic planning (building roadmaps, difficult tradeoffs, and decision frameworks) to achieve business goals aligned with Tiqmo’s mission and current growth stage.
• Technical knowledge in scalable distributed systems; proven track record of implementing new systems and products in industry settings.
• Experience with cloud technologies, including AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and/or Microsoft Azure.
• Familiarity with modern programming languages like Java, GoLang, Scala, or Python.
• Agile-driven product development experience.
• A technical evangelist to advance Tiqmo’s reputation as the innovative leader in the Fintech space.
• Ability to own and manage multiple concurrent projects, including presenting and negotiating with stakeholders on the interdependencies and possibilities of what can realistically be delivered.
• Understanding and experience building highly scalable, highly available systems.
• Experience building technology for secure environments that contain sensitive information (e.g., consumer profiles, financial information, regulatory filings, etc.).
• Responsibility for product delivery and management, including development tools and technologies, release and version control, contemporary testing methodologies, and deployment management.
• Expert at spotting talent and passionate about growing world-class engineers on your team.