Senior Technology Officer (STO) – Markets & Payments (Argentina)

Job description

The Senior Technology Officer (STO) will lead a small local technology team (3 FTE) in Argentina and act as a senior technology partner to the Markets and Payments organization. The role is accountable for translating business strategy into a prioritized technology roadmap, ensuring reliable and secure delivery, and influencing regional/global stakeholders so the Argentina strategy is executed successfully. The STO will drive execution across local and distributed teams, maintain strong operational controls, and continuously improve stability, resilience, and time-to-market.

Key Responsibilities

Team leadership (3 FTE): Lead, coach, and develop a local technology team; set clear goals, manage performance, and build a strong engineering and controls culture.

Strategy-to-execution

Convert Markets and Payments business priorities in Argentina into an executable technology roadmap with clear milestones, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.

Stakeholder influence

Partner with senior stakeholders across Markets and Payments to shape priorities, align trade-offs, and drive decisions across regional/global technology teams.

Delivery governance

Own delivery planning and execution for Argentina-related initiatives; track progress, manage risks/issues, and provide concise status reporting and escalation.

Production reliability

Ensure stability and resilience of critical systems supporting Markets/Payments; lead incident management, problem management, and root-cause remediation.

Risk, controls, and security-by-design

Ensure adherence to required controls across SDLC, change management, access, data handling, audit readiness, and remediation of findings.

Modern engineering practices

Drive CI/CD maturity, automated testing, observability, and standardization; reduce manual processes and improve deployment quality.

Vendor and third-party oversight

Manage local vendor delivery/service performance aligned to operational and control expectations.

Regulatory and local readiness

Support requirements driven by Argentina-specific regulatory, operational, and business needs, coordinating with compliance/control partners.

Required Qualifications

10+ years of experience in technology roles, including ownership of end-to-end delivery and production operations for business-critical systems. Demonstrated people leadership experience (direct management) and ability to lead small teams with high impact. Strong experience influencing stakeholders and driving execution across matrixed organizations (regional/global teams and multiple functions). Proven track record operating in controlled / regulated environments with strong risk and governance expectations.

Excellent communication skills—able to present trade-offs and recommendations to senior business and technology leaders.

Preferred Qualifications

Domain exposure to payments , cash management , markets technology , or transaction processing platforms. Experience with modern delivery stacks (CI/CD, automated testing), observability, resiliency engineering and AI. Experience supporting local country requirements (e.g., regulatory reporting, data residency, operational constraints) in partnership with control functions. English/Spanish fluency (Portuguese a plus), comfortable operating in global forums.