Head of Technology

Location- Geneva- Salary- Negotiable- Contact- Julian Perigo- Job Ref- 1331965- Leading gambling group in Switzerland
- Azure cloud technologies
- Attractive compensation package

Boston Link is partnering with a well-backed online gambling group to recruit a Head of Corporate IT. This role will suit someone who is comfortable managing a team in addition to 25% hands-on systems work. To be successful in this role you will need to have experience in DevOps, Azure technology and iGaming product knowledge.
- Lead a team to manage the overall IT operations: form a team of excellence. Be responsible for technical leads, provide mentorship, advice, and guidance. Develop and grow a diverse team through effective recruiting, mentoring, coaching, and retention strategies for key talents, ensuring a strong team where all feels heard and engaged.
- Be the DevOp/Infra champion for your team: enable their work, growth, and strategy (technical vision, leadership, and mentorship) bringing in new standards, technologies and constantly pushing the stack forward
- Develop and implement appropriate performance and data management systems across the organization.
- Work closely with other product owners, leads and story owners to design features, prioritize tasks, define the Definition of Done, and monitor daily progress with clear metrics and reporting such as burn down charts.
- Be responsible for all technical decisions.
- Set the strategy to build an amazing reputation and create a strong community within the company
- Provide guidance and be a point of contact for daily business tasks. Help departments use technology profitably.

iGaming is an increasingly regulated industry where compliance is part of our every day and therefore, we require someone who is process-driven and can define the processes their team will work with.
- Define and optimize all technical processes.
- Ensure that reported issues are being resolved promptly, that corporate policies and procedures are being followed, implemented and maintained.
- Be a focal point for Regulation requirements and dependencies on cloud infrastructure and platform as a service.
- Supervise the system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency.
- Develop standards and procedures to ensure that quality standards are met and consistent
- Manage all aspects of cybersecurity, coding and testing in the organization.
- Lead on the compilation, scrutiny and assurance of all regulatory returns to ensure consistency of approach and accuracy of information.
- Technical problem solver of our systems.
- Build and maintain partnerships with local companies and 3rd party vendors of our global tech partners. Research, negotiate and onboard vendors to support our infra operations.
- Assume responsibility for all digital, cyber and IT policies, processes, and procedures and where appropriate, training

Your Skills:

- Proven experience as a CTO or similar leadership role, preferably in an iGaming company.
- Good knowledge and experience with Azure services, Cloudflare, CloudFront, memory-based caching services, deployment. Your main responsibilities will be to monitor the whole infrastructure workflow, finding weak links and suggest optimizations. You will also be in charge of supervising the implementation of new Azure tools.
- Good knowledge and experience with SQL Server, oriented Data
- You are customer-focused and have strong experience in building, monitoring, and adjusting a product roadmap which meets the company’s expectation and targets.
- Strong team management skills and ability to motivate and delegate efficiently.
- Experience with JIRA essential
- Must have experience with Microsoft Azure (including understanding resource usage and cost reduction)
- Strong knowledge of security, authorization, authentication