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Reporting to the Chief Operations Officer, the Director, Information Technology provides oversight to the IT team and ensures a sound technology infrastructure to support the work of the organization and ensure that people have the tools and technology to succeed. He/she will develop and recommend the overall strategy for information systems and ensure an integrated approach focused on business solutions.

Specific areas of leadership include:

• Providing direction and leadership to the team responsible for implementing IT solutions, including performance management, training and development, and oversight;
• Developing a 3-5 year strategy for IT as well as the annual business plan and budget to execute the strategy;
• Ensuring a stable infrastructure and up to date (best practice) applications;
• Leading capacity planning, backups and disaster recovery planning and computing asset management;
• Monitoring technology developments and identifying cost effective solutions to meet The Society’s needs;
• Analyzing complex needs presented by the business and collaborating with the appropriate departments to assess and recommend solutions that best support the needs;
• Developing and implementing project plans;
• Managing supplier relationships, external consultants and IT vendors – liaising with vendors and service providers to ensure efficient and cost-effective acquisition of technology purchases and overseeing warranties and service agreements;
• Managing day-to-day development aspects of multiple projects, including requirements documentation and analysis, scoping, planning, engineering and implementing new projects and enhancements to The Society’s systems;
• Promoting a culture of high performance that values learning and a commitment to quality.

Required Skills and Experience

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of progressively responsible experience and a keen understanding of how technology systems and applications are critical tools to support business needs. In addition to a relevant university degree, the successful candidate has knowledge of IT systems hardware, software applications, products and solutions. A strong team-builder and mentor, the Director has a proven track record in developing and implanting an IT strategy and can assess the operational needs to determine the importance, urgency and risks of required solutions. He/she will demonstrate the ability to coach, develop and retain talent, and build lasting relationships with colleagues, stakeholders, vendors.

We are looking for a leader, a strong team player with a Data Analytics background, experience with continuous integration and agile delivery, and a passion for creating elegant products. Significant interaction with our global talent will be required. Effective communication at all levels internally and with clients will be necessary.

A unique blend of business and technical savvy, big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality is required. You must be able to communicate with all areas of the company and enjoy spending time with clients to understand their problems, and find innovative solutions for our clients and the broader market. You will also serve as the internal and external evangelist for new product offerings, working directly with the sales channel and key customers. The ability to work successfully with the Head of Decision Science Product Management will be critical to success in this position. Some travel will be required.

Required Skills and Experience

You should be a strong engineer (an active coder, not an IT manager) and ideally have hired and managed some developers before. Technical skills required: Ruby, HTML, CSS and Javascript, Rspec, Phantom, jSQL & NoSQL, Linux, AWS, Continuous Integration/Delivery, Capistrano, Unicorn, Nginx, Chef, Docker. At least 5 years engineering experience required. Bachelor’s required, advanced degree preferred.

We have an opening for a web user interface engineer for blockchain applications. We need a creative engineer who can design, develop and deploy web based user interfaces to large datasets. We also want to explore the use of interactive frameworks for displaying large graph data in cool ways. Javascript, Java, Ruby, Python are desired programming languages.

Required Skills and Experience

At least 3 years experience engineering and designing interactive web user interfaces. Bachelor's required.

This position requires a passionate Blockchain technology analyst to Identify novel opportunities for uses of Blockchain technology; lead proof of concept development and engage technology and corporate partners. Work closely with product development teams to influence strategy into product lines. Follow developments in the non-business environment, such as regulatory impact. Conduct market intelligence, benchmarks, and develop innovative business models to advise top management.

Required Skills and Experience

• Advanced Degree or equivalent experience required.
• Minimum of 2 years history working with Blockchain ecosystems and facilitating technology strategies and partnerships.
• Ability to understand and present extensive feature analysis for various blockchain offerings.
• Ability to work in an agile environment with rapid iteration, product testing, and benchmarking.
• Some business travel may be necessary.

We are looking for a leader and a team player with a strong Data Analytics background, experience with continuous integration and agile delivery, and a passion for creating elegant products and solutions to complex problems. Effective communication at all levels internally and with clients will be necessary. You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You will also serve as the internal and external evangelist the new product offerings, and at times work with the sales channel and key customers. The ability to work successfully with the CTO will be critical to success in this position.

Required Skills and Experience

• 10 years’ experience with modern business analytics in a big data context
• 4+ years’ experience creating, operating, and improving projects using toolsets to enable data discovery and mining operations
• 2-5 years’ experience working with development teams in Agile context
• Experience with a significant subset of the following technologies: Hadoop, Hive, Hbase, MongoDB, Cassandra, Platfora, Machine Learning, and common analytical and graphical packages and tools
• Project summary and project proposal experience at senior and executive management levels
• Institutional Financial Service experience a plus
• Experience with Blockchain required
• Computer Science or Engineering Degree (B.S or M.S) is required (Masters preferred)

As an integral member of the team you will make significant contributions to the Company’s objectives and shaping its strategic direction. You will explore various blockchain protocols and platforms, and understand their functionality and how they differ. You will develop applications and proofs-of-concept on select protocols that change or enhance the lifecycle of products. In collaboration with various business groups you will identify use-cases and solve complex problems using distributed ledger technology.

You will engage with the ecosystem, including: the open source community, startups, banks, institutional investors, and various industry groups for knowledge exchange and collaboration.

Required Skills and Experience

• Enthusiasm about blockchain/distributed ledger technologies and applicability to financial services
• Knowledge of security, cryptography and distributed ledger technologies
• Experience with NodeJS, Python, Java, PHP
• Experience with web services (REST frameworks, etc.)
• Ace communication & research skills
• Experience and enthusiasm working with and/or leading talented team of developers/engineers, business analysts, and product groups
• Good understanding of Linux
• Undergraduate or graduate degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

The Security Architect is a senior level position responsible for providing information security support to ensure that cryptocurrency and blockchain related products and services being developed meet industry best security practices and CG Blockchain corporate standard requirements. You’ll be responsible for developing and implementing security architecture for crypto ledgers, performing detailed technical design and hands-on programming of critical security components for crypto ledger projects, and developing a crypto key management system and infrastructure for securing blockchain transactions and data protection.

Required Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of experience in threat modeling, risk assessment or security design review
• Excellent hands-on experience of cryptography programming and secure application development
• Excellent knowledge of security architecture and engineering
• Excellent knowledge of Web application development
• Strong knowledge of data protection and key management technologies
• Strong knowledge of middleware and API server design and implementation, e.g. in J2EE or .Net.
• Strong analytical, threat modeling, oral and written communication, and presentation skills
• Strong knowledge of multiple programming languages (C/C++, Java, C#, Node.js
• Strong knowledge of multi-factor authentication preferred
• Ability to work with a cross functional team and handle multiple tasks and priorities
• Ability to quickly learn and master new technologies and complex business requirements and find practical solutions to cybersecurity challenges
• Bachelors Degree required, Advanced Degree preferred

As a product designer, you’re help the team create friendly and elegant interfaces through front-end code. Responsibilities include:

• Designing interfaces easy to use and attractive for all Chain Platform-related products
• Writing logic texts that can be used easily by teammates
• Creating and prototyping in both code and Sketch
• Integrating with back end code through a closely collaboration with engineers

Required Skills and Experience

• Advanced competencies in using Sketch, Illustrator, Java Script, HTML, CSS/SASS
• Experience related to jQuery and similar web frameworks
• Bachelors Degree and 2+ years experience

As a product engineer, you’ll work to continuously improve our blockchain platform and create a first-class for our clients. You’ll be responsible for:

• Building dashboards and other related tools by dividing into frontend and backend code
• Maintaining APIs and documentation
• Assuring a high standard of quality and assuming the responsibility to finish all the tasks

Required Skills and Experience

• Advanced programming abilities
• Solid understanding of web application fundamentals to understand our processes and share your knowledge to the team and other third-parties
• Excellent communication skills to assure a clear informational flow
• Orientation towards collaboration as you’ll work with designer and PMs
• Advanced competencies in using Ruby, React and other frontend frameworks, UI/UX design tools, Go, Postgres, etc.
• Bachelors Degree required.