Job Description
- Define and oversee the organisation’s engineering strategy, which is aligned with business objectives, with proven experience in managing enterprise-wide delivery departments.
- Strong communication skills, with an ability to listen, convey complex ideas, and manage difficult conversations.
- Support project management by monitoring task progress, periodic status reporting, and escalation.
- Engage with executive leadership team to align engineering goals with overall business strategy, including taking new products to market, calculated risk management and innovation capex decisions.
- Manage and mentor Heads across multiple teams, installing a mindset of continuous improvement, innovation and commitment to excellence
- Oversee budget and resource planning for the department.
- Communicate the strategy to the Company’s Board, Shareholders and Customers.
- An influential leader who communicates ideas persuasively and engages with customers, the wider market, the media and the whole team
- Responsible for identifying and driving efficiencies between teams
- Resolve intra-department risks and issues
- Own risk management identification and mitigation strategies across all projects and platforms.
- Drive innovation, continuous improvement, and adoption of emerging technologies.
Job Requirements
- 8-12 years working in technology at fintech/platform, with direct experience in the management role of blockchain products in production
- Has held a similar role such as Head of Engineering, CTO, CIO, VP of Technology
- Knowledge of many different financial/data products, and blockchain nodes operation workflows.
- Proven experience in managing an enterprise-wide technology estate with complex production SLAs and delivery roadmaps
- Track record of building and leading teams with an optimised SDLC, a commitment to quality excellence and continuous improvement processes
- Have built senior partnerships with Web2 and Web 3 leaders and vendors
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are needed to coordinate with the China team and Singapore team in bilingual languages
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Technical Development: Remain hands-on with key technologies (such as Java, Solidity, python, public and private chains, wallet providers and Web3 frameworks)
- Domain: Have a background and/or strong interest in blockchain technology and its history, with an awareness of current thematic changes. Strong domain knowledge and business resources in crypto hardware mining, PoS Staking and blockchain data processing
- Vendor Management: Experience in managing relationships with external vendors and service providers, ensuring they meet contractual obligations and service levels.
- Engagement: Ability to bring excitement and experience of the latest Web 3.0 trends and technology to the team and promote continued learning
