Responsibilities & Duties

Leadership & Strategy

• Identify opportunities and risks for delivering the company’s technology services as a business, including identification of competitive services, opportunities for innovation, and assessment of marketplace trends for the business success
• Build and motivate a world-class high performance technical, and customer support team
• Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms (including web application frameworks and the deployment stack) for delivering the company’s services
• Develop a financial plan/budget for technology in the organization

Others

• Own the architecture and development process for delivery of complex systems and configurations in a multi-site environment and all future updates and iterations
• Supervise software testing, and information systems operations and maintenance
• Lead organization in anticipating and reacting to major technology changes
• Lead strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives and setting timetables for the evaluation, development, and deployment of all technology services
• Supervise web application, native mobile application, and software development quality assurance utilizing DevOps
• Oversee Partner and Client integration efforts to the Orange Tech Digital platforms
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends, emerging technologies, and software development best practices by attending relevant conferences and reading widely (including reading your peers- blogs!)
• Share knowledge, mentor, and educate the organization’s investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders with regard to the company’s technological vision, opportunities, and challenges
• Create and maintain high-quality documentation of all relevant specifications, systems, and procedures
• Provide financial planning and budgeting for OrangTech’s technology needs

Competencies:

What specific skills/experiences/accomplishments should you have?

• Master’s in Technology or business administration (MBA) with Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineer/STEM
• Must have 5-10 years prior experience in customer facing product design and engineering focusing on UI/UX
• Excellent leadership, negotiation, management, problem solving, and interpersonal skills
• Strong experience in applying software engineering skills and experiences to automate all aspects of the operational delivery and management process from build/test/deploy, monitoring and alerting, to automatic failover and capacity management
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills
• A recognized thought leader with established industry presence leading internal and external efforts to promote the vision and adaption of digital technology
• Track record of building innovative, creative, and collaborative teams using DevOps and agile scrum
• Strong experience with POS, mobile money, payments and remittance technologies
• Strong experience with new and emerging digital technologies including machine learning, artificial intelligence, business process automation, robotic process automation, IoT, blockchain and cloud technologies.