Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
FinTech · Russia · Moscow
Total compensation band $210K+. The figure is the member's band, not an offer.
Results-driven CTO with 15+ years leading IT/AI-driven business transformation across FinTech, Banking, and Government sectors. Expert in launching ML/AI solutions from business case to production deployment, including LLM productization and AI agent platforms. Proven track record managing large-scale digital transformation programs with budgets exceeding $40M and teams of 700+ across multiple time zones. Strong background in platform architecture, regulatory compliance, and stakeholder management at government level.
Achievements
- Cut AI agent time-to-market from 3 months to just 1 week — a 12x improvement — by building an integrated design-time and run-time AI agent platform with end-to-end observability and secure production operations.
- Took a national government digital platform from pilot to full commercial production, turning an experimental initiative into a revenue-generating asset. Ran it at 99.95% availability, well above the contractual 99.5% SLA.
- Delivered the Government's annual strategic objectives for migrating public digital services onto the platform: commissioned and certified 6 production sites across 4 data centers, migrating 90+ government information systems.
- Built the bank's Anti-Fraud platform from scratch in 12 months. It now covers 95%+ of the customer base and cut cyber fraud complaints by 40%.
- Set up the PMO from the ground up and led a portfolio of 46 strategic projects, delivered on time and within the approved budget baseline. Two flagship projects won the IPMA Global Project Excellence Award.
Skills
- CTO Leadership
- Digital Transformation
- AI Leadership
- Machine Learning
- Platform Strategy
- Technical Leadership
- Agile Product Development
- Cross-functional Leadership
- Strategic Planning
- Large Language Models
- Computer Vision
- Cloud Architecture
- DevOps
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Stakeholder Management
- Team Building
Looking for
- Chief Technology Officer
- Chief Product Officer
- VP of Engineering
Experience
- CTO AI Agent Platform — Sberbank 2025 - present
Leading product strategy and technical architecture for AI agent platform across consumer segments. Productizing LLM GigaChat and Kandinsky neural networks while building secure AI runtime services and engaging with regulators for technology trust and compliance.
- CTO Unified State Digital GosTech — Sberbank 2023 - 2025
Developed service delivery model for government consumers and platform service catalog. Built relationships with Ministry of Digital Development and implemented platform development strategy and organizational transformation.
- CTO & PMO Lead — Sberbank 2018 - 2023
Led digital transformation program with $40M+ budget coordinating 700+ people across 8 time zones. Organized cross-functional collaboration, implemented knowledge sharing practices, and launched SRE school to enhance engineering competency.
Languages
- Russian (C2)
- English (B1)
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