Purpose of the role
The MarketVector Chief Technology Officer is a newly created role that provides unified technical and strategic leadership for the IT team and develops plans for IT and AI advancement in the highly competitive global index business. It replaces a co-head structure that divided ownership across technical and project management functions, and consolidates accountability for technology strategy, delivery, and stakeholder communication into a single leader. This role is a player coach position that will require strong technical leadership for the team.
Key responsibilities
1. Define and own the technology strategy and multi-year IT vision for MarketVector
2. Facilitate architecture design that achieves operational goals of MarketVector
3. Coach, train, manage engineers to drive excellence
4. Establish and maintain security policies, compliance standards, and a risk management framework that meets regulatory requirements
5. Ensure infrastructure reliability and operational continuity across all critical systems at agreed service levels
6. Drive planning, prioritization, and delivery of the technology roadmap with measurable committed-vs-delivered outcomes
7. Optimize location of IT team across Frankfurt, Mumbai, North America and beyond
8. Build and sustain a high-performing engineering culture that attracts, develops, and retains talent across geographies
Required qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, including at least 4 years in a senior technology leadership role (VP Engineering, CTO, or equivalent).
- Proven experience leading distributed engineering teams across multiple countries and time zones, with a strong understanding of the organizational and cultural challenges this entails.
- Demonstrated ability to define hiring profiles, structure interview processes, and build engineering teams across geographies.
- Proven track record of owning a technology P&L or budget and presenting technology strategy to board or executive level.
- Strong background in data-intensive, low-latency, or high-reliability systems, ideally in financial services, fintech, or data platform businesses.
- Hands-on experience designing and delivering cloud-based data platforms or data warehouse projects (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Demonstrated experience managing information security, regulatory compliance, and technology risk in a regulated environment.
- Excellent communicator in English, able to present complex technical topics clearly to non-technical executives, parent company leadership, legal/c compliance/regulators, and board members.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in index administration, benchmark governance, index-based portfolio management, trading or quantitative finance.
- Experience with Python-based data engineering stacks and financial data providers (Bloomberg, Refinitiv/LSEG, ICE, etc.).
- Experience defining and evolving the operating model for an offshore or nearshore engineering center.
- Track record of driving cultural or organizational transformation in engineering teams, particularly in a distributed context.
- Experience with AI/ML platforms or real-time streaming data infrastructure in a financial data context.
- Experience setting and enforcing integration and quality standards for externally developed code and third-party components.
- German, Hindi or other additional languages.
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