We are working with a major bank in Hong Kong, where they are building a brand new Innovation Lab for the next generation FinTech platform. They are looking for a strong FinTech R&D Director to lead the technology division. The selected candidate will be working on exciting products, talented technology people, innovative ideas across the firm. Great remuneration and opportunity.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development division on product development, technical direction, architectural framework, and strategy.
• Work with different stakeholders and act as a leader of the FinTech division to interface with different business parties.
• Act as a Product SME and provide technical insight to achieve the business vision through building new innovative technical products.
• Provide guidance and direction across architectural, solution design, and application design.
• Overview the full lifecycle through design, development, and implementation.
• Manage the engineering Team across development resources, team management, and appraisals.
• Evaluate new technologies with the technical team especially open-source, new development tools, new algorithmic code where they can be possibly brought into the team. 
• Understand the technical challenge and provide the right resources to solve those problems.

Requirements:

• Hands-on full-stack development experience is preferred. Ideally has practical development experience in the past.
• Strong development management experience in managing multiple agile/scrum teams.
• Strong understanding of OO Development and DevOps model.
• Development experience in Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, AngularJS is preferred.
• Experience in building Java-based Systems, good knowledge in application architecture and design patterns.
• Exposure to Public Cloud (AWS / Azure) and Kubernetes platform.
• Experience with CI/CD models.
• Candidate with innovative development, R&D, startup experience is a plus.
• Innovative mindset - Always think outside the box.
• Strong business acumen in working with different business stakeholders.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in Chinese and English.
• Degree from a reputable University.

If this outstanding opportunity sounds like your next career move, please send your resume in Word format to Danny Kwan at resume(at)pinpointasia(dot)com and put FinTech R&D Director - Banking Innovation Lab in the subject header.

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