Job Summary

We are a climate technology startup focused on enabling green financing and the voluntary carbon market. Backed by SCVentures and collaborating with key players like Engie, we develop innovative digital solutions to streamline processes for carbon credit projects, with a mission to empower project owners, financiers, and other stakeholders in sustainability.

As part of our growing team, you will have the unique opportunity to participate in the development of a digital platform designed to develop and finance carbon credit projects. This role will contribute to scaling climate action in critical geographies for global carbon markets.

Role Overview

As the Head of Technology, you will lead the design and execution of Qatalyst’s technology vision. You will oversee the development of AI-powered products, scalable infrastructure, and secure digital platforms that underpin our carbon intelligence solutions. This includes leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI tools to automate, enhance, and scale workflows related to project assessment, due diligence, risk analysis, and more.

We’re looking for a strategic, hands-on technology leader with deep technical experience, startup grit, and a passion for climate innovation.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Leadership

• Develop and own the end-to-end technology strategy aligned with product and business objectives.
• Collaborate with the executive team to shape technical direction, AI strategy, and roadmap planning.
• Champion a culture of innovation, rapid iteration, and technical excellence.

AI, LLMs & Automation

• Design and lead the development of LLM-powered tools to automate project evaluation, documentation analysis, risk scoring, and user interaction.
• Oversee integration of proprietary and open-source LLMs (e.g. OpenAI, Claude, Mistral) into platform features (e.g., smart assistants, document summarization, compliance checking).
• Build scalable AI infrastructure to support inference, training, prompt engineering, and API integration.

Skills and Experience

Product & Platform Development

• Architect scalable, secure backend systems to support carbon project onboarding, market access, and data tracking.
• Manage development of APIs, data pipelines, and integrations with registries, satellite data, MRV tools, and climate datasets.
• Ensure seamless user experiences across developer, buyer, and auditor interfaces.

Team Management & Delivery

• Recruit, manage, and mentor top-tier engineering, AI/ML, and DevOps talent.
• Set KPIs and deliver high-quality, on-time product releases across multiple agile teams.
• Balance technical debt, security, and feature velocity in a fast-paced environment.

Security, Infrastructure & Compliance

• Ensure best practices in cloud infrastructure, security, data privacy, and compliance with relevant standards (e.g. ISO, SOC2, carbon certification bodies).
• Lead decisions on build-vs-buy, tech stack, and infrastructure scaling.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in tech leadership roles
• Mastery in writing and reviewing codes
• Overseeing scrum teams and engineers
• Ability to wear multiple hats such as individual contributor, team lead, solution architect, facilitator.
• Knowledge of mainstream cloud provider (AWS / firebase) and elastic infrastructure.
• Expert background in Javascript/Typescript technology stack, NodeJS, Next.js and Nest JS, distributed systems, authentication mechanisms, asynchronous event processing, message queues, and architecture patterns.
• Knowledgeable on modern object orientated programming practices including entity frameworks, dynamic reflection, and reusable interfaces.
• Familiarity with 3rd party system integrations via API
• Familiar with OWASP, secure by design, secure coding practices, code scanning, unit testing, dependency management (deprecation, vulnerabilities, licensing)
• Familiarity with DevOps, Infrastructure including integration, delivery, deployment and assurance.
• Experience in front-end React and JavaScript/Typescript presentation frameworks
• Experience with operating highly-available production financial systems
• Familiarity with SQL & NoSQL databases, DNS, service discovery, and related infrastructure components
• Hands-on experience building or integrating LLM- or AI-powered systems.
• Deep understanding of LLM APIs, vector databases (e.g. Pinecone, Weaviate), embeddings, prompt engineering, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).
• Strong backend and infrastructure experience (e.g., Python, Node.js, Postgres, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with geospatial data, carbon MRV systems, or environmental data is a strong plus.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and product-oriented mindset.
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About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.