Head of Technology: Emerging Markets
Job Title
Head of Technology: Emerging Markets
Job Description
So, who are we?
Hello, we're IG Group. We are a publicly-traded FTSE250 FinTech company that runs mobile, web and desktop platforms that help our clients trade stocks & shares, leveraged products, Futures & Options and Crypto.
We are ambitious. Over 340,000 people already use our platforms. We're global with offices in 18 countries and products in 16 regions. We're hungry to move faster, ship better products for our customers and grow our user base. We believe in high autonomy, and we want people who are looking to do things differently in order to create better experiences for our customers.
We work in cross-functional teams and are laser-focused on increasing the number of active clients we serve to drive sustainable growth.
Your Role in the Team's Success
Reporting to the Group's Chief Technology Officer and Chief Business Officer, this role is pivotal in driving the growth and diversification strategy of IG. As the Head of Technology for Emerging Markets, Institutional, and Prime Brokerage, you will bridge technology and business, ensuring that our technology teams deliver divisional priorities swiftly and with high quality.
You will optimise team skills, provide innovative solutions, and accelerate the delivery of MVPs to clients.
By implementing effective measurement and feedback mechanisms, you will align our ways of working with divisional preferences and manage dependencies across divisions and tech domains.
Your leadership will inspire the creation of an ambitious technology and digital strategy, showcasing the art of the possible. You will champion modern practices, enabling fast feedback loops and real testing insights. This role offers the opportunity to drive engineering best practices, foster a culture of inclusion and experimentation, and lead product and capability improvements that significantly impact IG's overall business performance.
What you'll do
Division Accountability:
You will provide:
1. Guidance on feasibility and viability of work.
2. Solution options that enable us to ship products at speed.
3. Visibility of 'work' and progress - flagging decisions where needed to maintain progress.
4. Demos and working software for feedback and testing early.
5. Measurement and testing capabilities.
6. Divisional Technology strategy to meet long-term goals that enhance client-centric solutions, flexibility for the division and enhance efficiency of delivery (this area will be a challenge from day 1).
Technology & Engineering:
1. Ability to inspire Engineering best practices.
2. End-to-end ownership of Tech domain including documentation of domain, SLA, KPIs.
3. Domain transformational modernisation strategy and continual Technology improvement measured through DORA (Speed, Quality and Reliability).
4. Inspiring modern ways of working standards and creating a culture of innovation/experimentation.
5. Structural and team shape optimisation.
6. Optimising for delivery flow, from estimation to planning and building.
7. Sets the direction for Technology direction and outcomes through architecture solutions including technology selection.
8. Operational fitness ensuring the day-to-day technology services within the Client Technology domain are fit for purpose.
Strategic Leadership:
1. Strong Commercial and Product knowledge, to become a trusted advisor to the marketing leadership team.
2. The ability to create and articulate an inspiring vision for the Technology organisation.
3. Stakeholder engagement and relationship advocacy.
4. Translating commercial, business and technology strategy into actionable product and delivery outcomes.
5. The inclination to seek and analyse data from a variety of sources to support decisions.
6. An entrepreneurial and creative approach to developing new, innovative ideas.
7. Maintains an up-to-date view of market trends and products.
Executing for Results
1. The ability to support teams in working together to deliver improvements for IG.
2. Set the Software Engineering minimum standards, aligned to the SDLC.
3. Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty.
4. Comfortable taking appropriate risks.
5. Viewed by others as having a high degree of integrity.
6. Act in a transparent and consistent manner.
Leadership and People development
1. Inspires the team to be ambitious in the pursuit of innovation.
2. Acting as a role model for IG's culture and behaviours.
3. Nurture top talent, motivate the team, delegate effectively.
4. Self-resilient but also highly supportive of others.
5. Humility and modesty with great interpersonal skills.
6. Values-driven behaviours, ethics and leadership.
7. Ensure effective communication at all levels.
Relationship Management
1. Naturally connects and builds strong relationships.
2. An ability to inspire trust and followership in others.
3. Encourages others to share the spotlight and visibly celebrates success.
4. Creates a sense of purpose/meaning for the team.
Innovation - new fresh ideas nurtured and realised:
1. Encourages technology innovation.
2. Partners with other teams to find new ways to use technology.
3. Is open to new ideas from outside IG.
What you'll need for this role:
Person specification
1. A people-centric leader with a passion for working as part of a team.
2. Visionary but also able to improve the day-to-day.
3. Passionate about continuous improvement.
4. Highly collaborative approach.
5. A broad and comprehensive understanding of how technology can help businesses.
6. Strong communication skills, verbal and written.
7. Comfortable operating at pace.
8. Great interpersonal skills to build strong relationships.
9. Clear thinker, able to explore a range of solutions.
10. Passionate about technology with a keen awareness of current IT trends.
Background & Experience
1. Extensive experience leading at a senior level.
2. Extensive hands-on experience creating and designing user/customer-centric technology strategies.
3. Customer/Client experience grounding.
4. Demonstrable experience in leading the prioritisation of a significant product change portfolio.
5. Demonstrable use of technical knowledge and commercial acumen.
6. Has experience of introducing and influencing change within organisations.
7. Experience managing IT teams globally.
8. Experience in managing and working with 3rd party suppliers.
How we work
We follow a hybrid working model with 3 days in the office.
The Perks
1. Competitive salary
2. Flexible Benefits Package on top of your salary (12%)
3. Private medical cover for you and your family
4. Life insurance
5. Contribution to gym memberships
6. 27 Days holiday, with 1 additional day off to celebrate your Birthday & 2 additional days off a year for voluntary work (28 in total)
7. The option to buy or sell holiday days.
8. Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning Platform
9. A comprehensive global and local onboarding process
10. Employee-led networks with an annual budget for organising events & projects.
Join us for this exciting journey.
Apply now!
Number of openings
1
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