Chief Technology Officer

Our client is a leading B2B lending fintech solution provider poised to disrupt financial services with innovative technology. They are headquartered in Dubai with aspirations to expand across the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia.

They are looking for a visionary Chief Technology Officer to lead their platform and product evolution, ensuring they remain at the forefront of fintech innovation across global markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Technology Strategy: Define and execute the technology roadmap aligned with Clients mission of AI-driven credit inclusion.
• Product Innovation: Drive development of scalable, modular, cloud-agnostic APIs and microservices that power embedded lending journeys.
• Platform Ownership: Oversee the full-stack AI-led platform including decisioning engine, LMS, onboarding flows, KYC, analytics, and fraud management.
• AI & ML Leadership: Lead teams working on behavioural analytics, predictive modelling, robot-underwriting, LLM-based decision-making, and data science.
• Data & Security Compliance: Ensure platform security, data sovereignty, encryption, and compliance with global data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
• Engineering Culture: Build and mentor high-performing tech teams, nurturing a culture of innovation, scalability, and rapid product iteration.
• Cross-functional Alignment: Work closely with Product, Risk, and Commercial teams to rapidly deploy solutions for clients in banking, fintech, and telecom.

Key Qualifications

• BTech/MTech in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. MBA is a plus.
• 15+ years of technology leadership in fintech, SaaS, or platform-based businesses.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP), APIs, DevOps, containerization (Kubernetes/Docker).
• Demonstrated experience in building AI/ML solutions at scale and deploying explainable AI.
• Exposure to real-time data platforms, credit risk modelling, and embedded finance use cases.
• Ability to manage distributed teams across geographies and scale platforms to handle billions of data points daily.