Senior Technology Officer (STO) – Markets & Payments (Argentina)

The Senior Technology Officer (STO) will lead a small local technology team (3 FTE) in Argentina and act as a senior technology partner to the Markets and Payments organization. The role is accountable for translating business strategy into a prioritized technology roadmap ensuring reliable and secure delivery and influencing regional/global stakeholders so the Argentina strategy is executed successfully. The STO will drive execution across local and distributed teams maintain strong operational controls and continuously improve stability resilience and time-to-market.

Key Responsibilities

• Team leadership (3 FTE):Lead coach and develop a local technology team; set clear goals manage performance and build a strong engineering and controls culture.
• Strategy-to-execution:Convert Markets and Payments business priorities in Argentina into an executable technology roadmap with clear milestones dependencies and measurable outcomes.
• Stakeholder influence:Partner with senior stakeholders across Markets and Payments to shape priorities align trade-offs and drive decisions across regional/global technology teams.
• Delivery governance:Own delivery planning and execution for Argentina-related initiatives; track progress manage risks/issues and provide concise status reporting and escalation.
• Production reliability:Ensure stability and resilience of critical systems supporting Markets/Payments; lead incident management problem management and root-cause remediation.
• Risk controls and security-by-design:Ensure adherence to required controls across SDLC change management access data handling audit readiness and remediation of findings.
• Modern engineering practices:Drive CI/CD maturity automated testing observability and standardization; reduce manual processes and improve deployment quality.
• Vendor and third-party oversight:Manage local vendor delivery/service performance aligned to operational and control expectations.

• Regulatory and local readiness:Support requirements driven by Argentina-specific regulatory operational and business needs coordinating with compliance/control partners.

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in technology roles including ownership of end-to-end delivery and production operations for business-critical systems.
• Demonstratedpeople leadershipexperience (direct management) and ability to lead small teams with high impact.
• Strong experience influencing stakeholders and driving execution acrossmatrixed organizations(regional/global teams and multiple functions).
• Proven track record operating incontrolled / regulated environmentswith strong risk and governance expectations.

• Excellent communication skillsable to present trade-offs and recommendations to senior business and technology leaders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Domain exposure topaymentscash managementmarkets technology or transaction processing platforms.
• Experience with modern delivery stacks (CI/CD automated testing) observability resiliency engineering and AI.
• Experience supporting local country requirements (e.g. regulatory reporting data residency operational constraints) in partnership with control functions.
• English/Spanish fluency (Portuguese a plus) comfortable operating in global forums.