LightBox

Chief Technology Officer CTO - Financial Services

LightBox • $180K — $250K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-10 years of experience in technology leadership roles
  • Proven track record in cloud-native architecture and platform transformation
  • Strong background in DevOps methodologies and practices
  • Experience in managing cross-functional teams and portfolios
  • Excellent communication skills for client and executive engagement
  • Deep understanding of AI applications in business context

Responsibilities

  • Oversee Software Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Architecture teams with overall delivery accountability.
  • Lead the transition to a cloud-native technology landscape focused on operational excellence and security.
  • Drive consistency and strategic alignment across technology portfolios of various business units.
  • Champion a long-term architectural vision for delivering industry-leading solutions.
  • Establish continuous integration and deployment processes to streamline code delivery.
  • Collaborate with Finance to optimize technology investments and enhance customer success.
  • Spearhead AI adoption to improve automation and decision-making across internal processes.

Benefits

  • Leadership role influencing company strategy and vision
  • Opportunity to work with advanced technologies like AI and cloud infrastructure
  • Collaborative environment fostering cross-business partnerships
  • Exposure to high-level client engagement and market positioning
  • Impactful role in driving organizational growth and innovation
Full Job Description
Internal Responsibilities

  • Technology Leadership: Oversee Software Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Architecture teams with full delivery accountability, while delegating day-to-day operations.
  • Platform Transformation: Lead the evolution of the technology and delivery infrastructure toward a cloud-native future state, emphasizing time-to-market, operational excellence, performance, resiliency, and security.
  • Portfolio Alignment: Drive a unified technology portfolio across Engineering, our front to back solution, SaaS, and other business units to ensure consistency and strategic alignment.
  • Architectural Vision: Define and champion a long-range architecture that enables the company to deliver industry-leading F2B solutions.
  • DevOps Enablement: Establish streamlined processes for continuous integration and deployment, accelerating code-to-production cycles through DevOps methodologies.
  • Financial Partnership: Collaborate with Finance and the Executive team to optimize technology spend, reduce client costs, and maximize customer success.
  • Security Oversight: Own and manage all software security concerns across the product suite, ensuring compliance and proactive risk mitigation.
  • AI Adoption: Spearhead the adoption of Artificial Intelligence across internal platforms and processes to enhance automation, decision-making, and operational efficiency.
  • Growth Strategy: Drive the technology roadmap to support the company's ambition of becoming a billion-dollar, technology-led enterprise.
  • One: Partner with leadership to drive bring out collective strategy and vision to life. Promote collaboration within the different business lines. There will be a dual reporting line into CIO to help ensure alignment.

External Responsibilities

  • Client Engagement: Articulate the company's technology roadmap and philosophy to clients and prospects, linking innovation to business value.
  • Sales Enablement: Support the sales process by positioning the company's platform as the premier solution in the marketplace.
  • Market Intelligence: Contribute to business development by researching emerging technologies and market trends that influence technology and operations strategy.
  • Strategic Evaluation: Lead technical and organizational assessments of potential acquisitions and partnerships to support growth and innovation.
  • Brand Advocacy: Partner with Marketing to strengthen the company's digital presence and represent the brand at conferences, media events, and industry forums.
  • AI-Driven Client Solutions: Champion the use of Artificial Intelligence in client-facing products and services to deliver differentiated value and competitive advantage.
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