Head of Technology (ThirdEye)

Job description

Overview

Head of Technology - Jade ThirdEye

Stop Financial Crime.

Scale SaaS.

Lead with Impact.

At Jade ThirdEye, we’re not just writing code — we’re disrupting financial crime.

We build SaaS that matters: our AML solution helps financial institutions across New Zealand, Australia, and the UK fight back against fraud, money laundering, and criminal networks.

The threat is real, the stakes are high, and demand is growing fast.

We’re backed, we’re building, and we’re scaling with serious intent.

Now we’re hunting for a Head of Technology who’s wired for growth, driven by purpose, and ready to lead us into the next chapter.

This is more than a senior tech role.

It’s an opportunity to build a high-performance engineering organisation, architect global scale, and help steer the business.

You'll report to the GM of Jade ThirdEye and sit on the Jade ThirdEye Senior Leadership Team, shaping our product, our platform, and our future.

What you’ll lead

• Build and lead elite engineering teams — creating the conditions for teams to move fast, ship with confidence, and operate at a world-class standard
• Own our tech strategy end-to-end — architecture, tooling, infrastructure, scalability, resilience.
  
  You’re thinking 10x and delivering daily.
  
  
• Drive engineering delivery at pace — balancing speed with stability, and ruthless prioritisation with long-term sustainability.
  
  
• Modernise our stack and scale our foundations — uplifting our technology architecture, infrastructure, and delivery practices to support long-term scale and resilience
• Partner with Product — co-owning the development lifecycle and embedding a feedback loop that connects tech to customer outcomes.
  
  
• Operate beyond the code — you’ll collaborate across GTM, Operations, and Customer teams to ensure cross-functional momentum and strategic alignment.
  
  
• Lead with purpose — foster a culture of resilience, dependability, and audacity.
  
  Build teams that are gritty, trusted, and hungry to make a difference.
  
  
• Contribute at a business level — you’ll help shape not just the technology roadmap, but the commercial and operational strategy of Jade ThirdEye.
  
  

What you’ll bring

You’re more than just technical.

You’re a builder, a change-maker, and a force multiplier.

• Proven leadership of engineering organisations in high-growth SaaS or enterprise software environments.
  
  
• A sharp track record in technology transformation — you’ve scaled systems, teams, and delivery models under pressure.
  
  
• Deep knowledge of modern cloud-native architectures and engineering best practices.
  
  
• Experience uplifting DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and platform resilience.
  
  
• A leadership style that combines clarity, courage, and accountability — you get the job done and bring others with you.
  
  
• Strong commercial and strategic acumen — you know how to align tech with revenue, customer, and growth outcomes.
  
  
• A growth mindset, grit in the face of challenge, and a reputation for building teams that want to follow you.
  
  
• Bonus: experience in AML, regtech, or financial services — but we’ll take capability over credentials every time.
  
  

Why Jade ThirdEye?

Because you want to lead where it counts.

Because you're ready to build at scale — and with purpose.

Because you're not here to coast.

At Jade ThirdEye, we’re tackling one of the world’s toughest problems with tech that makes a real-world difference.

You’ll join a team that’s tight-knit, commercially sharp, and mission-aligned with the backing, tools, and autonomy to scale something exceptional.

Based in Christchurch, NZ, a fast-growing tech hub with access to wild mountains, real surf, and a lifestyle that balances ambition with adventure.

This is your moment to lead.

Let’s build something that matters.

About Jade

Jade Software is an iconic New Zealand name in technology and has evolved and grown to support our customers globally with complex technology problem solving, providing products Jade ThirdEye and Jade Platform, and creating data driven solutions.

Our HQ is based in Christchurch, NZ and we have offices in Auckland, Dunedin, Sydney and York, UK.

We value and celebrate creating a diverse and inclusive organisation for our people.

We know diversity benefits everyone who comes into contact with our business.

Diversity and Inclusion at Jade means that we celebrate and appreciate all the ways we are different.

At Jade our People First culture means we do not stand still with our progressive people initiatives; we have recently improved our employee benefits around our community connect leave, flexi-leave and a highly supportive and generous parental leave scheme.

Our employees and their whànau are provided with health insurance, as well as life and income protection for our people amongst other great benefits.

We are proud at Jade that we have crushed our gender pay gap to 1.9% in 2024.

Your application to Jade will be reviewed based on your work experience or skills that you can bring to Jade and not on your cultural background, gender, age, disability, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation or any other aspect which makes you unique.

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Required Skill Profession

It Management & It Project Management