A sophisticated financial technology organisation in Estonia is seeking a Head of Fintech Risk & Resilience to strengthen its approach to operational resilience, technology risk, business continuity, and critical-service preparedness.

The successful candidate will work across technology, operations, compliance, security, finance, and executive leadership to establish a resilient operating model capable of supporting increasingly complex digital financial services.

Strategic Mandate

You will own the framework for identifying critical services, assessing operational dependencies, understanding disruption scenarios, and ensuring that appropriate resilience measures are embedded throughout the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the organisation’s operational-resilience strategy.
• Establish frameworks for identifying and assessing critical business and technology services.
• Conduct scenario analysis covering technology failures, service disruption, third-party dependency, and operational incidents.
• Establish resilience metrics, risk indicators, and management reporting.
• Coordinate business-continuity and disaster-recovery planning.
• Work with engineering teams to strengthen system availability and recovery capabilities.
• Assess critical third-party and infrastructure dependencies.
• Lead resilience assessments for new products, platforms, and major technology changes.
• Coordinate simulation exercises and recovery testing.
• Partner with cybersecurity, compliance, risk, finance, and operations teams.
• Monitor remediation activities and ensure identified resilience gaps are addressed.
• Provide senior leadership with clear assessments of material operational and technology risks.
• Develop policies, procedures, documentation, and governance structures supporting resilience.

Candidate Profile

• 8+ years of experience in operational risk, technology risk, resilience, business continuity, cybersecurity governance, fintech, or banking.
• Strong understanding of technology-dependent financial services.
• Experience developing resilience, continuity, or technology-risk frameworks.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, third-party risk, and disaster recovery.
• Strong analytical and programme-management skills.
• Excellent communication and executive stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Ability to translate complex technical risks into clear business implications.

Operating Environment

Digital banking, payments, cloud infrastructure, third-party financial services, critical APIs, distributed platforms, cybersecurity controls, disaster recovery, business continuity, and operational-risk management.

Why This Opportunity

The role offers broad organisational influence and the opportunity to strengthen the resilience of financial technology where service continuity, data integrity, and operational preparedness are fundamental.

Ideal Candidate: A senior risk and resilience professional who understands technology deeply enough to challenge assumptions, identify systemic dependencies, and build practical resilience programmes across a complex fintech environment.

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