Chief Technology Officer

Join a scaling fintech at the forefront of their field in the GCC. As Chief Technology Officer (CTO), you’ll take full ownership of the technology strategy, driving innovation, platform maturity, and regulatory alignment across multiple markets.

The Role

As CTO, you’ll be the senior tech leader in the business, working closely with the CEO to shape the future of a high-growth platform. This is a hands-on, strategic role focused on scalability, product development, and technical operations in a regulated environment

You’ll lead engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, and data functions with a strong focus on customer experience, security, and cross-market consistency. Arabic-speaking candidates are highly desirable due to the nature of the markets served.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Setting and delivering the end-to-end technology roadmap as CTO.
• Leading the revamp and scale-up of a digital financial platform.
• Building and launching products across areas like BNPL, microfinance, and regionally compliant financial solutions.
• Overseeing infrastructure, uptime, security, and cloud performance.
• Embedding DevOps and automation to support agile delivery.
• Driving AI/ML adoption for decisioning, risk, and personalisation.
• Ensuring compliance with complex regional data and financial regulations.
• Developing and aligning teams across multiple countries.
• Leading vendor and partner relationships to support delivery.

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

• Around 15+ years in senior technology leadership, ideally in fintech, financial services, or another regulated industry.
• Extensive senior leadership experience in fintech, financial services, or regulated tech environments.
• Proven ability to scale platforms from early-stage to mass-market usage.
• Hands-on technical capability (this isn’t a purely high-level CTO role).
• Experience across cloud, security, and infrastructure strategy.
• Strong understanding of compliance and regulatory risk in financial services.
• You’ll thrive in this role if you’re comfortable working at both strategic and delivery level, and enjoy building things that scale in regulated, high-growth environments.
• Arabic language skills (preferred).
• Willingness to be based in Bahrain, with regular travel across the GCC.

What’s in It for You:

• A high-impact CTO role at the heart of a scaling fintech.
• Full ownership of technology strategy, delivery, and execution.
• Competitive executive salary and package.
• Work alongside an ambitious, commercially focused leadership team.
• Regional scope and the chance to build something at scale.

Next Steps:

If you’re exploring senior roles in fintech and this sounds like the right fit, we’d love to hear from you. Send your CV or get in touch in confidence to learn more.