CTO - Chief Technology Officer - Platform Strategy - API First - Scale Up - Paying up to £210,000 - Equity Options - Hybrid - Central London - Immediate Starter
As Chief Technology Officer, you will define and lead a next-generation technology platform positioning the business as a data and platform-driven fintech within the UK ecosystem. This role goes beyond traditional IT leadership. You will architect a modern financial infrastructure layer that enables scalable unitisation, seamless integration with asset managers and platforms, and the evolution towards digitised and programmable investment vehicles.
This is a transformation role as much as a leadership role. The CTO will drive a forward-looking technology agenda spanning infrastructure modernisation, data platform development, and platform integration strategy, while maintaining operational continuity. The role operates within a structured value creation framework with defined milestones, reporting into the Executive Committee and engaging with the board on technology strategy and progress.
Essential Skills
- Defining and executing a forward-looking fintech platform strategy
- Evolving an API-first, cloud-native and modular architecture
- Leading the pragmatic adoption of emerging technologies aligned to business value
- Driving continuous improvement across the technology estate, including infrastructure modernisation, resilience engineering, and operational maturity
- Building and leading a high-performing engineering organisation
- Establishing modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, automation and reliability
- Enabling product-led growth, experimentation and faster delivery cycles
- Positioning data as a strategic asset across the organisation
- Scaling and shaping the engineering organisation to meet future platform demands, including workforce planning and capability development
- Identifying and automating manual or spreadsheet-based operational processes, replacing them with governed, scalable solutions
- Owning the data platform strategy: canonical data model, governance framework, and API layer design
Resilience, Security & Regulatory Excellence
- Maintaining high levels of platform resilience, stability and uptime
- Owning and evolving the firm's cybersecurity strategy
- Ensuring compliance with FCA and PRA expectations, including governance frameworks
- Managing infrastructure vendor relationships and driving service quality, including evaluating strategic fit and planning future transitions where appropriate
- Maturing the information security posture: driving certification readiness, patch management discipline, and a regular penetration testing cadence Vendor & Integration Management
- Leading platform integration programmes: API contract governance, technical coordination, integration testing, and partner relationship management
If you're are interested in finding out more please apply ASAP as the interview process has already started! Happy to run through benefits and extras!
