Head of Product Technology

The opportunity A new financial markets infrastructure venture is being established in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors and operating under an international common law framework. The platform is being built from scratch, to go-live in 2027, and is designed to operate as a regulated financial market infrastructure from day one. We are hiring a Head of Product Technology to own the technology platform end-to-end: the application and the infrastructure on which it runs. This is not background plumbing. The application is the product. The infrastructure is the foundation on which settlement finality, system resilience, latency performance, and operational availability are delivered. The post-holder must understand both layers as one integrated whole and own them as one. In Build, the post-holder is the architect of the platform from a blank sheet: technology reference architecture, infrastructure topology, hosting strategy, network and database design, integration patterns, security architecture, and resilience and disaster-recovery architecture. In Run, the same person operates the platform and the team they have designed. This is not a sit-in-your-office role.

What the role covers • Designing the technology reference architecture from a blank sheet: application architecture, infrastructure topology, database platform, network design, integration patterns, security architecture, and resilience and DR architecture • Owning the application end-to-end: design, configuration, integration, data model, change management, and support • Owning the infrastructure that hosts the platform: compute, storage, network, virtualisation, database, and middleware, whether on-premise, hosted, or cloud • Owning platform resilience: high availability design, backup and recovery architecture, disaster recovery, business continuity, and tested failover • Owning end-to-end platform performance including transaction latency, capacity planning, and headroom strategy • Owning first-line platform security: secure configuration, hardening, identity and access management, vulnerability management, patching, and security incident response • Owning the technical relationship with the build vendor; holding them to account on functional, technical, and operational delivery • Designing the human operating model for the platform: team shape, shift patterns, on-call rotations, incident command structure, runbooks, and third-party support arrangements • Owning all integrations between the platform and external systems: custodians, settlement banks, exchange, SWIFT, Bloomberg, and ISIN infrastructure • Line managing the Application Managers, Database Administrator, and the wider platform engineering team as it builds