Chief Technology Officer Tasks:

• Design & build the digital learning platform and e-learning solutions that power our programs
• Create & own product roadmaps that outline clear technical requirements, timeframes & costs associated with releases
• Recruit & manage a software engineering team to build our products & ensure on-time delivery
• Gather and utilise user feedback & data to continuously improve our digital products and identify additional product features that can be built into the roadmaps
• Immerse yourself into the latest thinking in e-learning, pedagogy, and digital skills to help drive product & engineering decisions and improve learner success
• Build, train and manage an eminent faculty and academic advisory
• Provide academic leadership across an emerging teaching faculty - coordinate and support others to operate as highly effective facilitators of learning
• Leverage your software engineering background to help define our entry-level and leadership software engineering curriculums, teaching practices & delivery methods
• Regularly engage with employers and the wider technology industry to ensure to ensure our products have currency from a professional practice perspective

Chief Technology Officer Qualifications and Requirements:

• Extensive experience building and leading high-performance software development teams at eminent technology companies
• Eagerness to mentor and develop the next generation of technical talent
• Experience teaching/coaching entry-level or junior technical talent
• Experience building and managing a multi-disciplinary team against a product roadmap with clear delivery milestones
• Expansive network within the digital economy/technology sector
• Experience with the pace and demands of the start-up environment
• Background in pedagogy, spec. curriculum design and delivery, lecturing or academic teaching
• Background in professional development or leadership coaching

CTO Duties:

• Collaborates with senior executives across Bancorp to understand and prioritize the initiatives requiring technology solutions.
• Actively participates in long-range strategic planning for the technology division by partnering with senior leaders on overall division strategies.
• Leads the Priority Review Board (PRB) for the company through interactions with senior leaders across the organization.
• Develop the Technology talent pipeline through strategic insourcing and establishment of a Managed Service Provider relationship.
• Develop standard capabilities and practices for Service Management
• Work with the Finance team to ensure financial budgets align with Bancorp strategies and priorities and leads through adjustments as new priorities impact the organization.
• Provides leadership on merger and acquisitions from a technology perspective.
• Work with the Technology leadership team to identify initiatives to enhance the value of the technology team to the organization.
• Partners with key stakeholders to define strategies, roadmaps, financial targets and other measures around initiatives.
• Embraces change and models the way in working cross-functionally and collaboratively to influence desired outcomes.
• Guides other team members to goal achievement and team success.

CTO Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field or equivalent work experience.
• 20+ years of IT and business/industry work experience with at least 5 years in a strategic leadership role.
• Requires financial management background (Capital/Expense planning, budgeting, etc.)
• Knowledge of Agile and other transformational work strategies is recommended.
• Demonstration of complex coordination and interaction across business and technical boundaries.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including ability to succinctly synthesize data, develop recommendations, create presentations and present to senior leadership.
• Comfort with ambiguity and an ability to learn quickly and thrive in a complex, dynamic environment.
• Ability to gather inputs from a wide variety of perspectives and make informed decisions; willingness to stand by decisions of the team; demonstrated transparency and decisiveness.
• Results-driven, highly motivated self-starter who possesses integrity and a strong work ethic.

CTO Duties and Roles:

• Leading the team through management and mentorship.
• Defining a recruitment strategy with other managers.
• Developing standards and procedures to ensure that quality standards are met and consistent.
• Preparing and optimizing budgets.
• Recommending technological developments and improvements on efficiency.
• Developing the team to ensure quality end products.

CTO Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Previous working experience in software design and developing customer-orientated platforms (either gaming/sportsbook platforms or SaaS)
• Deep knowledge about Microsoft .Net, Azure and SQL Server.
• Extensive experience in working with stakeholders to create hiring strategies to develop quality teams.
• Experience in recruiting Developers and contributors.
• Strong recruitment experience and had been able to recruit at least 20 people in less than a year.
• Experience in managing remote teams.
• Strong organizational leadership skills.
• Motivated, confident, self-sufficient, focused and determined.
• Immediately credible at senior management level.
• Well organised and consistently meets commitments.
• A desire to try things a new way and challenge the status quo.
• A willingness to find a balance between industry best practice and a pragmatic approach.
• Strong problem solving, diplomacy and influencing skills.

Chief Technology Officer Accountabilities:

• Working with key leaders to build strategy and progress the development of Saas products.
• Integrate new and existing SaaS products across the group business.
• Instill a culture of technology utilisation and best practice.
• Create a new team that will lead on internal technology harmonisation.
• Deliver a best in class group infrastructure through IT transformation, supported by an investment programme that delivers enhanced IT solutions and operational efficiency.
• Plan and detail longer-term projects/programmes in response to new emerging technologies/business change including recruitment, procurement, budgetary and operational requirements.
• Protect the business through the implementation of robust Disaster Recovery and IT security strategy.
• Ensuring objectives are met in the form of statutory compliance, security and good practice for information and data held such as GDPR.
• Longer-term overall responsibility for group IT and telco systems such as: infrastructure, information security, data storage, hardware, and software systems.
• Enable the revenues to double revenues inside of three years.
• Successful delivery of a technology transformation program across the group.
• Significant scaling SaaS business revenues in first three years.
• A clear established foundation of IT policy to build upon and scale up.
• Create a culture where all staff embraces and use technology as a fundamental enabler to group success and efficiency.
• Successful delivery of a technology transformation program across the group.
• A proven executive-level technology leader who can stimulate and manage diverse teams to support and grow the vision of group IT.

Chief Technology Officer Skills, Abilities and Experience:

• Masters, Degree or similar qualification in Information Technology, Networking or Computer Science.
• Hands-on leader, able to drive technology and cultural change quickly in busy environments.
• Ability to command a following and lead change using direct and consensus management where necessary.
• Previous management of P&L/budgets.
• Knowledge of SaaS products and software development lifecycle, scrum and agile.
• Experience of scaling offerings to grow at pace in business to business environments.
• Understanding or experience of the property management sector.
• Subject matter expert of SaaS products and data analytics.

Chief Technology Officer Duties and Responsibilities:

• Heading the whole Technology includes Information technology, Infrastructure and Data.
• Work closely with management & team to lead technology planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives, timetables, implementation and deployment of product.
• Lead a team of Development Team, Server Engineers and QA Engineers, establishing development practices and standards.
• Build and retain world-class engineers through strong recruitment, mentoring, and career management.
• Evaluate and select platforms, tools, partnerships, vendors, and solutions to meet studio and product needs
• Accountable for overall performance; define metrics and sets targets
• Stay informed on latest technologies and game industry trends; 
• Make informed decisions about changes in the strategies accordingly

Chief Technology Officer Qualifications and Requirements:

• 17+ years of Software design, architecture, and implementation experience with at least 5-7 years of experience at leadership level.
• Should have experience in Digital Media and Entertainment companies.
• Must have Computer Science/Engineering education background.
• Excellent experience in engineering stacks, specifically, Java, C++, Python, Databases, back-end and front-end technologies, mobile, and a broad range of APIs.
• A track record of building and leading strong engineering teams (QA, Dev and Ops).
• Knowledge of the technical pipeline and all the processes needed to make a game.
• Strategic thinking and Problem-solving aptitude

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Roles:

• Oversee and direct the company’s technical product development & roadmap
• Direct and oversee all IT work processes: infrastructure, architecture, development and database
• Improve and refine IT processes and their efficiencies
• Propose, elect and implement strategic initiatives in line with company goals
• Interface with senior-level management and other key stakeholders, particularly when there are issues or technical difficulties
• Conduct ongoing training, performance reviews and personal development of team members

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, or a related field of study, or equivalent experience
• Strong knowledge of technology in all areas: systems, development/architecture, security, database to be able to oversee and manage and bring together all technology areas
• Experience in building mobile products and scalable platforms in payment industry
• Proven experience in leading a team, managing cross-functional technology resources
• Entrepreneurial spirit and enthusiasm for working in a fast-paced startup
• Excellent project management skills and communication skills with the ability to understand and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience
• Strong ability to drive decision to closures, as well as track their implementations
• Ability to assess technical talent and put team members in a position to succeed
• Fluent both in English and Mandarin (Chinese)
• Willing to travel domestically and internationally as needed

Responsibilities for Chief Technology Officer:

• Lead and develop our initial architecture and overall tech stack
• Build and manage tech leads across multiple cross-functional product teams
• Define our key processes to ensure we can build, launch and scale our product quickly
• Ensure we develop a technology that is built for scale
• Working with leaders within the product team and senior management team to help shape the product and technical roadmap
• Hiring amazing engineers who care about our mission and align with our values
• Set an extremely high bar for our overall engineering function

Requirements for Chief Technology Officer:

• You are an entrepreneurial self-starter and can know how to build a high-performance team
• You have leadership experience within engineering in high growth (preferably fintech) company
• You are passionate about developing high-quality technology
• You think beyond the tech stack and are passionate about how the solution helps solve problems for our customers
• You like to be “in the dirt” and lead by example
• You take pride in your work, striving for quality, and technical excellence
• You are motivated by complex challenges and understand how to gather people to solve these challenges
• You are open-minded and inclusive in your work style

CTO Duties:

• Define technology vision and provide technical leadership for both short and long term business goals
• Consolidate the company’s technology platforms and create plans for disaster recovery and business continuity plans
• Oversee all the system and network design and changes in architecture
• Plan and execute the company’s Ops and Tech strategy
• Track, analyse and monitor technology performance metrics
• Communicate technology strategy to stakeholders and investors, managing their expectations
• Partner with business leaders to identify and prioritise the company’s business goals
• Assist the CEO with investor relations and shareholder meetings
• Be a representative at executive level engagements

CTO Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in leading complex technical environments, defining distributed system architecture and developing enterprise-level technology roadmaps
• Solid business and technical acumen in running a 24x7 high availability operation and proven success building out processes at Internet scale
• Experienced in working with a high growth start-up company
• Excellent communication (written, verbal and presentation) skills for diverse audiences
• Experience working in a distributed team, with solid collaboration and negotiation skills is a plus

Chief Technology Officer Accountabilities:

• Create and lead a technology strategy for the organisation.
• Work alongside the Programme Managers and the Project PI’s to:
• Help shape the organisation’s investment decisions in research.
• Ensure that the organisation’s funded research programmes ae resourced and planned to deliver their technical goals.
• Develop strong working relationships across the battery technology community including, industry, university research and technology transfer offices, other research organisation’s and national scientific bodies.
• Support the organisation’s commercialisation team and help to identify routes to imparct for the technology developed on organisational projects.
• Serve as an expert spokesperson representing the organisation in areas related to battery science and technology.

Chief Technology Officer Education and Experience:

• Ph.D., research experience at senior level in a battery-related discipline.
• Strong knowledge of the science engineering economics and social benefits of batteries and other forms of energy storage to effectively evaluate and develop commercial opportunities.
• Experience in engaging (or at a minimum the ability to engage) with relevant industries (Particularly automotive, but also energy, aerospace, motorsport)
• Strong analytical capabilities.
• The ability to exercise leadership and influence others.
• Experience working with VC’s or the venturing arm of a large organisation would be advantageous.
• Strong technical Understanding
• Established experience and reputation with the ability to engage with a range of stakeholders and pull together complex, multi-partner agreements.
• Perseverance and sensitivity to work across organisations at multiple levels.
• Passion for making the UK the centre for batteries and energy storage.
• Behaviour that inspires others in the mission of the organisation.