Career Evolutions is searching for a Chief Technology Officer for a fast-growing FinTech company in the Phoenix metro area, Arizona. It's a direct hire, full-time career opportunity with a compensation up to $225,000 + Bonus + Equity.
If you’re a technology leader with a global strategic mindset and with excellent experience from the financial services industry and want to work for a fast-growing international FinTech company, then this may be the perfect opportunity for you!
Our client is looking for a CTO who will be their technology go-to leader expect to play an integral role in establishing the company’s technology vision, strategies, and plans for growth. You are a “big picture” thinker with excellent leadership, team building, and management skills and able to build strong interpersonal relationships with peers, brand leaders, and other senior management. You will supervise a global workforce and work closely with teams for quality assurance processes, project management and security. You will focus on maintaining and improving all technological issues in the company.
Your Responsibilities:
Establish technical vision and lead company’s technological development
Develop strategic plans and set timelines for evaluation, development, and deployment of all technical, web, and mobile services
Define company standards for systems, equipment, and software
Establish software development process and set objectives for process
Develop and implement disaster and emergency recovery plans
Study processing systems to evaluate effectiveness and make recommendations
Share technological visions, opportunities, and risks company-wide
Identify opportunities for web and mobile services
Ensure technology standards and best practices are met
Ensure technological processes and service comply with all requirements, laws, and regulations
Collaborate with departments - marketing, operations, and production - as an advisor of all technologies
Monitor web analytics and make recommendations that align to business goals
Supervise quality assurance processes, integration, and system tests
Lead and mentor team members
Identify company web user needs
Monitor performance profiling tools and procedures
Maintain network security with members on the tech team
Review timeframes, budgets, and supervise workflow of Tech department
Stay current with new industry trends, technologies, and software development
Represent company at conferences and networking events
Requirements & Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in technology, or related field; Master’s degree preferred
8+ years’ experience in software development, technology, cloud
5+ years technology management / leadership experience
Experience with such technologies as .Net, C#, SQL Server, MongoDB, Solr, jQuery, Angular, AWS, IIS, GitHub, Grunt/Gulp, Node.JS, Java/C
In-depth understanding of financial services and payments industries, including merchant services, blockchain, forex, and crypto currencies
Lead, mentor, and encourage tech teams around the world
Experience in aligning multiple strategies and ideas to workable solutions
Excellent analytical and time-management skills
Confident in producing and presenting work with excellent verbal and written communication skills
Founded in 2008, Career Evolutions is a leading Executive Search Firm based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Career Evolutions provides products and services to identify top talent, develop employees, and maximize human capital to enhance the bottom line. For more info, please visit www.careerevolutions.net, check out our Current Opportunities, and contact us via phone 480.626.5253.
