Director of Technology Operations

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About the role

  • Director of Technology Operations transforming Coinspaid Dev’s blockchain infrastructure operations. Leading Platform/DevOps, Corporate IT and resilience initiatives for production-critical financial systems.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the transformation of Technology Operations across Platform/DevOps, Corporate IT and Operational Excellence
  • Define the Technology Operations strategy, target operating model, organizational structure, responsibilities, priorities and transformation roadmap
  • Lead multiple established technology functions through Heads, Leads and other managers
  • Evolve DevOps toward a Platform Engineering model that reduces operational toil and increases self-service
  • Establish a “you build it, you own it” production ownership model with Engineering
  • Develop Service Management toward Operational Excellence, including service ownership, incident and problem management, risk-based change governance and systemic failure reduction
  • Transform Corporate IT toward a secure, automated employee technology model
  • Assess organizational, technology and operating-model gaps and turn them into improvement initiatives
  • Improve the maturity, reliability, scalability and efficiency of technology operations supporting production-critical systems
  • Define operational metrics and use them to measure transformation outcomes and drive improvements
  • Own digital operational resilience, including business continuity, disaster recovery, backup and restoration, resilience testing, recovery objectives and crisis readiness
  • Partner with Security, Risk and Compliance on ICT risk management, third-party risk, audit readiness and regulatory remediation
  • Ensure operational and technology risks are identified, prioritized and addressed
  • Support audits, certifications, regulatory requirements and relevant controls
  • Own and optimize budgets, technology vendors, infrastructure investments and external partnerships
  • Partner with Engineering, Security, Risk, Compliance, Product, Finance and other business functions
  • Represent Technology Operations in cross-functional and executive discussions
  • Prepare the technology organization for growth, increasingly complex enterprise customers, new products and a larger engineering organization
  • Develop Heads and Leads and deliver measurable improvements within the first 6–12 months

Requirements

  • Significant leadership experience in Technology Operations, IT Operations, Infrastructure & Operations, Platform/Production Operations, Platform Engineering or a comparable technology function
  • Experience as a manager of managers, with responsibility for several teams or functions through Heads, Engineering Managers, Team Leads or equivalent leadership roles
  • Previous experience as a Technology Director, VP/Head of Technology Operations, Platform/Infrastructure leader or comparable senior role within a product engineering organization
  • Proven examples of significant organizational or technology transformation
  • Experience leading or evolving DevOps, SRE or infrastructure capabilities toward Platform Engineering, including developer self-service, automation and reduction of operational toil
  • Strong understanding of modern production ownership models and the relationship between Platform Engineering and product engineering teams
  • Experience with production-critical systems where availability, reliability, security and operational failures have direct business impact
  • Experience with IT and Service Management, including incident, problem and change management
  • Experience transforming Corporate IT or employee technology environments, including identity/access lifecycle, endpoint/device management, automation, governance and employee self-service
  • Practical experience with business continuity, disaster recovery and operational resilience, including BIA, RTO/RPO, backup and restoration, resilience testing and remediation
  • Experience working with Security, Risk and Compliance teams and managing technology and operational risks
  • Exposure to audits, certifications, regulatory requirements and operational controls relevant to financial institutions or regulated environments
  • Working knowledge of technology-operations regulatory frameworks in financial services, such as DORA, is a plus
  • Experience managing budgets, vendors, contracts and technology investments
  • Ability to operate effectively when requirements, organizational boundaries or the final solution are not fully defined
  • Track record of developing leaders and building autonomous teams
  • Ability to move between strategic topics and operational problems
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
  • Experience in fintech, payments, banking, financial infrastructure or another regulated and production-critical technology environment would be highly valuable

Benefits

  • Benefit Bar – up to €230/month
  • Fully remote work from almost anywhere
  • Optional offices and relocation support
  • Flexible, async-friendly environment
  • Budget for courses, certifications, and professional development
  • Language learning support
  • Cross-team learning and knowledge sharing
  • Medical insurance or reimbursement depending on location
  • Access to mental health support
  • Financial support for important life events
  • Merch shop with rewards system
  • Team offsites and company events

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteWorldwide

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