Chief Technology Officer
GFT Technologies
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Kraków • 🇵🇱 Poland
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Lead
Tech Stack
Cloud
About the role
- Inspire and lead GFT Poland to be recognized as the best responsible AI-centric digital transformation company in the world.
- Ensure GFT remains at the forefront of technology, empowering our clients to solve complex, real-world business challenges through bold, cutting-edge solutions in the era of AI and rapid change.
- Represent GFT as a thought leader in the industry (conferences, publications, media).
- Position GFT as the best place to work for top technology experts.
- Lead discussions about the future of technology in the context of client needs.
- Actively participate in presales, solution validation, and proposal preparation.
- Build and maintain relationships with key clients and strategic technology partners.
- Inject innovation into solutions and proposals.
- Solve complex technical challenges.
- Manage client escalations related to technology.
- Act as a technology advisor to the Board.
- Work closely with GTO and the Global Business Development Platform (GBDP) for the global offerings and technology workstreams.
- Mentor technical leaders, engineers, and architects.
- Build and lead both formal and informal technical communities.
- Support technical career paths and participate in recruitment for top technical roles.
- Promote a culture of collaboration, innovation, autonomy, and high technical standards.
Requirements
- Min 10 years of business experience in IT
- Extensive knowledge of the financial sector and its regulatory environment
- Proven experience working with a number of clients and across multiple technologies
- T-shaped technical expert: with deep, specialist knowledge in at least 1 tech area and understanding on high level all IT technologies necessary for current banking & financial enterprises (including commercial solutions for banking/finance, custom application development, data and AI, cloud platforms)
- Proven track record of technical thought leadership, leading complex projects or strategic technology initiatives
- Demonstrated ability to influence and inspire technology teams, both formally and informally
- Genuine passion for AI — acting as an advocate, promoter, and active user of AI-driven solutions both internally and in client-facing work
- Able to combine high-level strategic vision with a hands-on approach, remaining actively involved in key client engagements, solution design, and critical technical decisions
- Strong client engagement skills – able to represent GFT in presales, solution validation, and executive-level discussions
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to speak to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Fluency in English and Polish is required.
Benefits
- Hybrid work (2 office days per week)
- Benefit package that can be tailored to your personal needs (private medical coverage, sport & recreation package, lunch subsidy, life insurance, etc.)
- On-line training and certifications fit for career path
- Access to e-learning platform Mindgram - a holistic mental health and wellbeing platform
- Work From Anywhere (WFA) - the temporary option to work remotely outside of Poland for up to 140 days per year (including Italy, Spain, the UK, Germany, Portugal, and Bulgaria)
- Social events
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
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