Technology Lead – Digital Assets & Cyber Security

About the role

Gi Group Holding's Wyser unit, which searches for and selects specialized middle and senior management, is looking for a Technology Lead for its global technology business partner in Turkey. The role sets the technology strategy and operating model, leads delivery of digital-asset capabilities and holds a large multi-domain organization accountable.

Key responsibilities

• Set the Turkey technology strategy and target operating model, translating Group priorities into roadmaps, annual investment plans, technology standards, resource choices and decision rights.
• Lead delivery and integration of modular digital-asset capabilities, including the engine, system of record, APIs, key management, wallet and custody services, compliance integration and vendor components.
• Coach and hold accountable a large multi-domain organization through its leaders, build scarce capabilities, strengthen succession, engagement and retention and sustain an agile culture.
• Embed cyber security, financial-crime controls, key and wallet controls, operational compliance, regulatory readiness and service resilience across the technology estate.
• Align Retail Banking, Wholesale Banking, Payment Settlement Services and Group stakeholders on use cases, dependencies and enterprise decisions.
• Ensure reliable 24/7 services, healthy legacy operations, disciplined vendor management and transparent budget, headcount, capacity and service performance.

Required profile

• Typically 10-15+ years of broad technology experience, including 6-10+ years leading managers and expert teams in a large, regulated, multi-domain environment.
• Master's degree or equivalent; cyber security, cloud, payments or blockchain qualifications are advantageous.
• Demonstrated ownership of technology strategy, annual plans, budgets, headcount, standards, platform integration, legacy operations and complex transformation at significant scale.
• Strong grounding in secure technology implementation, cyber security, architecture and operational resilience.
• Payments, cloud, blockchain, digital assets or custody experience is advantageous.
• Strategic, commercially aware leadership able to influence senior local and Group stakeholders in a matrix environment.