Ceres FTS

Job Title: Chief Technology Officer CTO - Financial Services Technology Leadership: Oversee Software Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Architecture teams with full delivery accountability, while delegating day-to-day operations. Platform Transformation: Lead the evolution of the technology and delivery infrastructure toward a cloud-native future state, emphasizing time-to-market, operational excellence, performance, resiliency, and security. Portfolio Alignment: Drive a unified technology portfolio across Engineering, our front to back solution, SaaS, and other business units to ensure consistency and strategic alignment. Architectural Vision: Define and champion a long-range architecture that enables the company to deliver industry-leading F2B solutions. DevOps Enablement: Establish streamlined processes for continuous integration and deployment, accelerating code-to-production cycles through DevOps methodologies. Financial Partnership: Collaborate with Finance and the Executive team to optimize technology spend, reduce client costs, and maximize customer success. Security Oversight: Own and manage all software security concerns across the product suite, ensuring compliance and proactive risk mitigation. AI Adoption: Spearhead the adoption of Artificial Intelligence across internal platforms and processes to enhance automation, decision-making, and operational efficiency. Growth Strategy: Drive the technology roadmap to support the company's ambition of becoming a billion-dollar, technology-led enterprise. One: Partner with leadership to drive bring out collective strategy and vision to life. Promote collaboration within the different business lines. There will be a dual reporting line into CIO to help ensure alignment. External Responsibilities Client Engagement: Articulate the company's technology roadmap and philosophy to clients and prospects, linking innovation to business value. Sales Enablement: Support the sales process by positioning the company's platform as the premier solution in the marketplace. Market Intelligence: Contribute to business development by researching emerging technologies and market trends that influence technology and operations strategy. Strategic Evaluation: Lead technical and organizational assessments of potential acquisitions and partnerships to support growth and innovation. Brand Advocacy: Partner with Marketing to strengthen the company's digital presence and represent the brand at conferences, media events, and industry forums. AI-Driven Client Solutions: Champion the use of Artificial Intelligence in client-facing products and services to deliver differentiated value and competitive advantage.

Overview Job Title: Head of Private Markets and Alternatives Head of Private Markets and Alternatives This senior leader will be responsible for managing a range of strategy and execution activities for the business, including planning, execution and delivery of application and technology solutions in Hedge Fund Services and Private Markets. This role requires a strategic thinker with proven success for also ensuring the implementation of risk, regulatory and compliance initiatives. Responsibilities Refining and executing growth strategy for a substantial, market-leading offering through driving strategic and business development initiatives Driving strategic and operating planning processes in partnership with other leaders Identifying and developing relationships with clients and other third parties, and engaging c-suites of target clients Defining the development roadmap for the Alternative Investment Services and Private Markets program Overseeing end to end application development lifecycle including testing, deployment and L4 support Partnering with the business leadership to support the planned business growth and client onboarding Implementing application modernization strategy to transform legacy applications to modern scalable cloud-based solutions Building strong relationships with Product and Operations to understand their business requirements and deliver technology solutions Communicating with senior executives on technology strategies and program status Establishing talent development strategies and foster a culture of innovation and accountability Keys to success Deep expertise and proven track record in leading and delivering enterprise scale application development, tools and technologies Experience in Financial Services industry in the area of Alternative Investment Services and Private Markets required Proven experience in aligning the technology solutions with various complex business strategies and processes Experience leading large multifunctional application transformation workstreams delivering measurable outcomes and business value including risk reduction, resiliency, simplification, reduced total cost of ownership. Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability drive alignment across diverse teams and stakeholders, both internal and external Education & Preferred Qualifications Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field 20+ years of experience in application development with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role Ability to manage a large team globally