M1xchange - Vice President - Technology

Job Brief

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute a long-term technology roadmap aligned with business strategy and market demands.
• Determine organization needs and identify system specifications.
• Serve as a strategic partner to the CTO in driving technology-led growth and digital innovation.
• Translate emerging technologies into competitive business capabilities.
• Oversee development and implementation of assigned programs and guide teammates.
• Architect, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance systems and platforms.
• Plan and design the structure of technology systems, discuss these with the client.
• Communicate system requirements to software designers and developers; explain system structure to them and provide assistance throughout the assembly process.
• Oversee the design and deployment of core fintech products, APIs, and data infrastructure.
• Establish best-in-class software development, DevOps, QA, and release management practices.
• Ensure silent operations while continuously reducing cost of IT operations for running the business
• Ensure IT infrastructure and application support to provide 24-7 business operations
• Produce progress reports, AI and ML exposures. Agentic AI understandings.
• Champion a security-first culture; ensure infrastructure and applications meet or exceed industry standards (e.g., PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2).
• Collaborate with legal, risk, and compliance teams to integrate regulatory requirements (KYC/AML, data privacy, etc.) into product design and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with business to incrementally improve IT landscape to meet business goals
• Application and infrastructure modernization
• Support and address issues identified during internal and external audits
• Attract, retain, and mentor top-tier engineering, data, and product talent.
• Foster a high-performance culture built on accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Scale global technology teams across geographies while maintaining velocity and cohesion.
• Work with team to devise plans for future IT requirements of the organization.
• Partner with Product, Operations, Finance, and Business stakeholders to align technology investments with customer value and operational efficiency.
• Represent technology leadership in investor and partner engagements, where appropriate.
• Collaborate with Product Management and Business to deploy technology led/enabled innovative solutions
  

Professional Experience

• 18+ years in software engineering and technology leadership roles, with at least 10 years at the executive level.
• Deep fintech domain experience-ideally in payments, supply chain finance, banking, lending, digital assets, or related sectors.
• Proven experience scaling cloud-native, microservices-based platforms to enterprise-grade standards.
• Strong understanding of the technical architecture along with infra estimation planning based upon ongoing/future usage of system.
• Experience in working with relational database like Oracle, proficient in using SQL and migration process to Non RDBMS
• Proficiency in system architecture, API-first design, real-time data processing, and distributed systems.
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and modern engineering practices.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity, data governance, and compliance frameworks.