Chief Information Officer (CIO) Ukraine

Fintech Farm Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

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Opportunity to shape the SRE & IT function

Job summary

Fintech Farm Ltd is looking for a CIO to spearhead their technology strategy for a new digital bank in the UK. You will be responsible for designing scalable and secure systems while leading a distributed IT team.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of fintech experience and strong capabilities in cloud management and cybersecurity. This is a unique opportunity to shape IT in a fast-growing fintech environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in fintech/neobanks/payments.
• 10+ years in IT, including 3+ years as CIO/CTO.
• Experience building teams and systems from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute technology strategy for a new digital bank.
• Lead digital transformation and oversee hybrid cloud environments.
• Build scalable, secure, high-availability systems for multi-region deployment.

Skills

Fintech expertise

Cybersecurity

Cloud management

Agile leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Your Role

This role is the technology leadership position responsible for building and launching the IT function for a new digital bank in a new market. As CIO, you will shape and execute the technology strategy, leading infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, and core systems setup from the ground up. You will ensure a secure, scalable, high-performance platform and drive innovation as Fintech Farm expands globally.

What You Will Be Doing

• Define long-term global IT strategy aligned with business goals and neobank expansion roadmap
• Build scalable, secure, high-availability systems for multi-region deployments
• Lead digital transformation initiatives across the organization
• Oversee hybrid cloud environments (AWS / Azure / GCP + on-prem)
• Ensure resilient multi-region deployment, DR/BCP, FinOps practices
• Build and govern infrastructure platforms across all markets
• Own cybersecurity strategy end-to-end
• Implement ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOC2, GDPR
• Champion security-by-design and OWASP API Security
• Collaborate with regulators across multiple jurisdictions
• Build scalable data architecture for real-time analytics and AI
• Ensure data governance, lineage, privacy, secure data exchange
• Oversee enterprise systems, identity management, IAM/SSO, endpoints, MDM
• Lead development & maintenance of mission-critical systems and middleware
• Ensure reliability through SLI/SLO, monitoring, distributed tracing, logging, incident management
• Drive initiatives in AI, automation, blockchain, ML-based decisioning, intelligent routing
• Identify and adopt emerging technologies to improve product and operations
• Build relationships with core banking vendors, processors, cloud providers
• Optimize cost, contracts, long-term vendor strategy
• Lead distributed IT & engineering teams (30–50+ people)
• Hire, mentor, develop future tech leaders
• Embed large-scale agile practices (LeSS)

Who You Are

• A senior technology executive with deep experience in fintech, neobanks and large-scale distributed systems
• A visionary strategist for multi-market neobanks
• A hands-on engineering-mindful leader
• Security-obsessed and compliance-ready
• A strong communicator aligning tech & business
• An inspiring mentor building high-performing teams
• You naturally operate with an AI-first mindset, embracing AI-driven development, automation and decision-making across engineering, operations, and business processes
• You are passionate about embedding AI as a core capability of the organization rather than an add-on
• You understand how to scale platforms, teams, and workflows where AI is a default part of the toolkit

Your Experience

• 5+ years in fintech / neobanks / payments / issuing
• Experience with core banking systems: Temenos, SAP Banking, Tieto, local CBS
• Integrations with processors: Way4, Visa, Mastercard
• Building middleware between frontend and core banking
• 10+ years in IT, including 3+ years as CIO/CTO/Head of Engineering
• Managing globally distributed teams (30–50+)
• Experience building teams & systems from scratch
• Practical experience with LeSS
• ISO 27001, SOC2, PCI DSS — implementation & maintenance
• Working with regulators in multiple jurisdictions
• Security-by-design methodology
• OWASP API Security
• Hybrid-cloud, multi-region deployments
• DR/BCP planning, resilience engineering
• Kubernetes (HPA/VPA, StatefulSets, Ingress, operators)
• Service mesh (Istio/Linkerd — optional)
• IaC: Ansible (required), Terraform, GitOps
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Asynchronous transaction processing
• Event choreography vs orchestration
• Eventual consistency
• REST, OpenAPI, OAuth 2.1, OIDC, JWT
• API Gateway patterns
• Prometheus, ELK/Loki, OpenTelemetry
• SLO/SLI definition
• Modern incident management

What We Are Offering

• Competitive salary (negotiable)
• Share options
• Opportunity to shape the SRE & IT function in a fast-scaling fintech
• A collaborative culture valuing autonomy, innovation, ownership, and impact