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Ecobank Transnational Incorporated
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated
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Ecobank Transnational Incorporated is the parent company of Ecobank Group, an independent pan-African banking group serving approximately 20 million consumer, commercial, and corporate banking customers across 33 African countries. With more than 14,000 employees, the group provides banking products and financial services spanning accounts and deposits, lending, cash management, advisory, trade finance, securities, wealth management, and asset management.
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Chief Technology Officer, Group Technology Platform Head – CESA 2

Lead technology strategy, resilience and platform engineering for Ecobank’s CESA 2 region. Direct regional technology leadership across architecture, modernization, cybersecurity, cloud and enterprise platform adoption.

GHGhanaHybridFull-timeLeadEnglish RequiredChief Technology Officer
CloudCyber Security

Description

  • Act as the principal technology executive for CESA 2, translating Group and regional strategies into a measurable two- to three-year technology roadmap
  • Lead Country Technology Heads and hold them accountable for performance, risk, delivery, transformation, talent, succession and cross-country capability sharing
  • Oversee regional technology health across local, centralized, cloud, eProcess and third-party services
  • Monitor customer journeys, resolve systemic weaknesses, prepare technology for launches and remediate vulnerabilities
  • Apply enterprise architecture, security-by-design, resilience-by-design and non-functional standards
  • Maintain oversight of technology, cybersecurity, regulatory and audit risks and drive durable remediation
  • Increase platform adoption while addressing legacy and EOL/EOS systems, reducing technical debt, rationalizing technology and realizing benefits
  • Manage the regional technology budget and improve spending efficiency across infrastructure, cloud, telecommunications, software and vendors
  • Define the Group-wide platform strategy, scope boundaries, target architecture and multi-year roadmap
  • Establish engineering standards for DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, secure development, production readiness, performance, documentation and technical-debt reduction
  • Manage platform health using SLIs, SLOs and SLAs covering availability, latency, throughput, capacity, observability, disaster recovery and RTO/RPO
  • Ensure security, regulatory and data-protection compliance, govern dependencies and reduce concentration, obsolescence and vendor risks
  • Promote enterprise-wide platform adoption and reuse, eliminate duplication, retire obsolete components and measure both delivered and removed technology
  • Control platform TCO, utilization, licensing, unit economics and vendor performance while preserving internal ownership of architecture, engineering expertise and decisions

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or a related discipline
  • At least 15 years of IT experience, including technology service delivery and leadership in a multinational, matrixed organization
  • Substantial banking technology experience with technical engagement across one or more banking IT domains
  • Strong understanding of architecture, engineering standards, APIs and integration, data, cloud and on-premises infrastructure, performance, resilience, security and observability
  • End-to-end accountability for enterprise platforms spanning architecture, engineering, production, lifecycle management, modernization and retirement
  • Experience improving code and solution quality through DevSecOps, automated testing, CI/CD, SRE practices, capacity engineering and non-functional requirements
  • Experience managing availability, latency, scalability, disaster recovery, capacity, incident and problem management, and recurring failure-mode elimination
  • Knowledge of TCO, licensing, infrastructure and cloud consumption, vendor dependency, unit economics and value realization
  • Experience designing reusable platforms across countries, businesses and channels
  • Experience providing vendor technical leadership while retaining internal ownership of architecture and engineering decisions
  • Ability to create a clear two- to three-year modernization roadmap covering legacy remediation, cloud readiness, technical debt and platform evolution
  • Knowledge of measurable technology outcomes, including SLO and SLA attainment, availability, MTTR, deployment frequency, change failure rate, performance, capacity headroom, security vulnerabilities, technical-debt reduction and cost efficiency
  • End-to-end ownership of security assurance

Benefits

  • Equal-opportunity workplace committed to inclusion and diversity
  • Applications welcomed regardless of nationality, race, gender, age, social class, religion, beliefs or disability, subject to local laws and regulations

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