Position: Head of IT
Company: Mira- top recruiting
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

Role summary: Head of IT is accountable for the project’s technology vision, strategy and execution and also responsible for both the management and technical aspects of the technology team.

Responsibilities:
- Define, architect, and execute the project’s infrastructure plan to fulfill the project’s business and technology strategies.
- Supervise and help to implement all functional areas of technology including software design and development, project architecture, quality assurance and testing, production operations and technical support, network and systems administration, and information security management.
- Provide leadership for the improvement of functionality, reliability, scalability, and security of the project’s applications and systems.
- Drive a software development lifecycle process and culture that ensures the appropriate balance in which quality products are produced in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Ensure sound architectural designs are implemented and advocate for best practices and processes.
- Oversee the project’s information security, disaster recovery, and business continuity efforts.
- Supervise determination of new software tools related to future development of new product features in terms of best fits to the system architecture and business needs
- Monitor KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance
- Grow and scale the team by recruiting high-class technical talent as needed. Create and foster an environment conducive to innovation, high productivity, and high quality
- Create a strong internal culture to manage technology side of the project with accurate time estimates, adherence to deadlines, and strong communication to stakeholders.
- Work in partnership with internal functional teams as a technology partner in forwarding business capabilities.
- Work in partnership with outsourced vendors and drive them for achiving milestones of the project in a high technical quality

Required qualifications:
- 8+ years’ experience in technology (e.g. software development, architecture)
- 5+ years management / leadership experience
- Experience working in agile teams, familiarity with the mindset and terminology
- Previous hands-on experience working through the design, development, release cycles and delivering mobile applications to market
- Experience with tech-stack (e.g. Microservices, Flutter, Kotlin, Swift, Node.js, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ etc.)
- In-depth understanding of financial services and payments industries, including issuer and acquirer payment systems
- Experience in aligning multiple strategies and ideas to workable solutions
- Excellent analytical and time-management skills
- Confident in producing and presenting work with excellent verbal and written communication skills