Chief Technology Officer

Technology Officer

About myZoi

• myZoi is an exciting fintech start-up
• aiming to promote financial inclusion globally. Our vision is to provide a
• level playing field to the unbanked and the underbanked in accessing essential
• financial services in an affordable, convenient, and transparent fashion. We
• are looking for smart, ambitious, and purpose driven individuals to join us in
• this journey.
• This is an opportunity to join myZoi as
• a Chief Technology Officer. The role will be based in the UAE.

Key Responsibilities

Business

• Working with
• the CEO, CPO, Product Owners, and partners to lead technology build,
• evaluate technology trade-offs, oversee vendor engineering engagements,
• and deliver features and capabilities aligned to the business model to
• build on the minimum viable product (MVP) to successful global rollout.

The Chief

• Technology Officer will discuss with partners, fintechs, co-creation
• clients, and business to expand the Company’s product offering and
• geographical footprint.
• Co-ordinate,
• question and interrogate technology opportunities with engineering team
• and innovate to sustain a competitive advantage.
• Employ a
• managerial mindset that seeks to optimise business outcomes for the
• Company while establishing sound governance, internal processes, adherence
• to policies and standards. This role requires close coordination with the
• SC Ventures CTO.

Thought

• leadership and demonstratable subject matter expertise on use of machine
• learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, APIs, cyber
• security, DevSecOps and similar technology applications.
• Establish a
• sound technology operation covering incident management, problem
• management, service levels (SLAs) and business continuity processes

Technical

Skills

Expert

knowledge of mainstream cloud provider (AWS), Cloud-native services, and

elastic infrastructure.

Expert

• background in .NET technology stack, distributed systems, authentication
• mechanisms, asynchronous event processing, message queues, and
• architecture patterns.

Knowledgeable

on modern object orientated programming practises including entity

frameworks, dynamic reflection, and reusable interfaces.

Familiarity

• with 3rd party system integrations via APIs (HTTP/REST), host-to-host
• (file exchange by FTP), with background jobs processing of real-time,
• event triggered, and async automations.
• Familiar with
• OWASP, secure by design, secure coding practises, code scanning, unit
• testing, dependency management (deprecation, vulnerabilities, licensing)

Extensive

experience with DevOps including pipeline, release management, multi AWS

account deployments.

Required

experience in front-end AngularJS, and good to have familiarity with

modular frameworks such as ASP.NET Boilerplate, ASPNetZero, ABP.IO

Overseeing

scrum teams, engineers, and ensuring reliable delivery of sprints, change

management of features and bug fixes, and backlog

Experience with

operating highly-available production financial systems

Familiarity

• with SQL databases, DNS, service discovery, and related infrastructure
• components
• Ability to wear
• multiple hats such as individual contributor, team lead, solution
• architect, facilitator.
• Beneficial is
• knowledge of FinTech ecosystem, inclusive of Blockchain, Digital Payments,
• Primer Services and Transaction Banking Enhancements, as well as other
• innovations in this space.

Other

Responsibilities

• Have expertise
• and professional experience in software development and deep understanding
• of technology delivery.
• Participate in
• assessing and hiring technical personnel and support the growth in
• aggressive go-to-market plans.

Familiarity

with ERP and financial systems (purchase orders, invoices, receipts) is

desirable.

Participate

• with anchor and banks / financial service providers in establishing new
• integrations.
• Engage with
• relevant Standard Chartered Functions including Technology and Information
• and Cyber Security (ICS) for governance and key-control-indicators.
• Advantageous to
• have experience in ITIL and ISO27001
• People and

Talent

• Lead by example
• and build the appropriate culture and values.
• Create a
• motivational and challenging environment in the team which is conducive to
• creativity and delivery of the strategy.

Governance

• Act and
• escalate quickly when any risk and control weakness become apparent and
• ensure they are addressed within an appropriate timeframe and escalated
• through the relevant committees.
• Work with
• multiple stakeholders to establish applicable risk / control framework to
• ensure that the Group’s ability to remain within risk appetite is not
• materially threatened.

Familiarise

self with governance structures and mandatory processes the Company and

the Group.

Regulatory

& Business Conduct

Display

• exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of
• Conduct.
• Take personal
• responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including
• regulatory and business conduct, across the Company. This includes
• understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all
• applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.

Effectively

and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct

and compliance matters.

Key

Stakeholders

Chief Executive

Chief Product

Officer

Chief

Informsation Security Officer

Chief Operation

Officer

Leadership Team

Technology

department

Required Qualifications /

Skills / Experience

• Subject matter knowledge and
• experience
• 15 years’
• experience in similar technology leadership role

Experience in

startups & technology companies a major plus

Understanding

• and appreciation for the complexities of the Group’s footprint
• Motivated to
• address the impact of innovation technology in Financial Services

Skills and characteristics

• Imaginative and
• creative approach to how we do work
• Curiosity about
• new technologies, workflows, and products
• Ability to see
• things from multiple perspectives, as well as ask the question “why”
• continuously
• Tireless work
• ethic and enthusiasm to execute and get things done

The role

• holder is authorised to manage and operate within the scope of the roles and
• responsibilities outlined above. Role holders are not authorised beyond the
• scope of this job description unless they have a formal delegation of
• authority.