Technical Director

Backbase products are implemented into systems of leading banks and financial institutions all over the world. Accelerating digital transformations in the financial world isn’t just routine. Each project requires custom technical leadership.

As a Technical Director, you oversee your portfolio of projects. You manage both your team's results and client expectations. Leading multiple delivery teams, you are on top of new developments and near-future demands, translating your project insights into product vision.

Being part of a management team for multiple projects, together with the Operations Manager and the Delivery Manager, you run your own fintech business. In this role, it comes down to your expert technical knowledge as much as your leadership skills.

What you'll do

From kick-start sessions with clients and partners, where technical requirements are discussed, you take the lead all the way to the moment the project is signed off. No matter who you talk to, you impress with your technical knowledge and compelling presentations.

You manage and mitigate technical risks. As a master planner and ingenious technician, you define strategies and align them with standards. You identify technical improvements and follow up on them. If relevant, you ensure that custom solutions are translated into general solutions. Not only do you supervise the technical specifics, but you also support and evaluate your team, verifying that the technical level is unprecedented. We work on a global scale, so you will travel regularly.

Who you are

• You mastered in IT;
• You have created solutions for financial services institutions (especially banking);
• You take pride in over-delivering and have a client-centered mindset; 
• You have strong hands-on programming skills;
• You have strong applied Agile experience; 
• You have strong communication skills and won’t shy away from having difficult conversations all the way up to the C-level. 
• You’re familiar with all of the stages of designing customer-journey-driven architectures to be production-ready;
• We won’t have to tell you anything about application servers, databases, load balancers, and other infrastructure components required to deploy modern applications. Your expert knowledge is always up to date;
• There are no secrets for you in the following: Enterprise Integration Patterns and Frameworks, Spring, Maven & Jenkins, Java platform, JavaScript frameworks, MVC patterns and principles of REST APIs, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Microservices architecture;
• You are comfortable with traveling 20%-50% of the time.

We will be extra happy if you:

• Experience with Portal/Web Content Management;
• Familiar with architectural patterns such as Microservices, CQRS, and event sourcing;
• Have experience with server virtualization and containers technology such as Docker, VMWare, and HyperV;
• Experience using API gateway, service registry, etc.

Why Backbase?

Backbase creates the best digital banking solutions on the planet, enabling our clients to deliver superior online and mobile customer experiences. We are a global, young-spirited, diverse (45 nationalities), fast-growing and leading fintech company. Agile is our middle name and we love pushing innovation in the digital banking world. We make it work.

And we’re not done innovating just yet. Our 600 employees work together on better and more advanced products. As we are in the scale-up phase, we don’t believe in simply “doing our jobs”. We’ve always got room for new, creative talent to push us further. What will you bring to make us stronger?

We are organized to support you. You will receive time to educate yourself and will work with some of the best specialists in the business. Having fun is allowed at Backbase :-). We work and play. At Backbase, you can come as you are and say it like it is.

Join us for a journey instead of a job!