CERES Group

Internal Responsibilities 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 the 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.

Head of Private Markets and Alternatives 5 days ago - Be among the first 25 applicants. 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. The role requires a strategic thinker with proven success in ensuring the implementation of risk, regulatory and compliance initiatives. Location: Boston, MA Salary: $130,000-$175,000 Responsibilities Refine and execute growth strategy for a substantial, market leading offering through driving strategic and business development initiatives. Drive strategic and operating planning processes in partnership with other leaders. Identify and develop relationships with clients and other third parties, engaging C suites of target clients. Define the development roadmap for the Alternative Investment Services and Private Markets program. Oversee end to end application development lifecycle including testing, deployment and L4 support. Partner with business leadership to support planned business growth and client onboarding. Implement application modernization strategy to transform legacy applications to modern scalable cloud based solutions. Build strong relationships with Product and Operations to understand business requirements and deliver technology solutions. Communicate with senior executives on technology strategies and program status. Establish talent development strategies and foster a culture of innovation and accountability. Keys to Success / Skills 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. Proven experience aligning technology solutions with complex business strategies and processes. Experience leading large multifunctional application transformation workstreams, delivering measurable outcomes and business value including risk reduction, resiliency, simplification, and reduced total cost of ownership. Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to drive alignment across diverse teams and stakeholders, both internal and external. Education & Preferred Qualifications Bachelor's 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 global team. Other Information Seniority Level: Executive Employment Type: Full time Job Function: Business Development and Sales Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting