Set and communicate their technology vision, both internally and externally. R&D/Product Development – working alongside Senior Management and engineers, collaborate to develop new products/improve tech offerings to customers.
Contribute to the development of company goals, training plans, service function, growth by being an active member of the leadership team and culture.
Understand the technical landscape, keep current with trends, guide and implement strategy around their products and own use of technology. Implement best practices to continuously improve software development, reliability, performance, scalability, maintainability and security to ensure their products and technology delivers for their customers.
Foster relationships with technology providers and partners to ensure technology portfolio provides combination of breed-of-breed and emerging solutions. Keep up-to-date with developments in SAAS, Cloud and associated technologies and the customer and supplier market places. Some Pre-Sales and post sales engagement process with the clients.
Proven experience as a CTO or in a similar technical leadership role. Leadership experience and proven track record of managing people.
Extensive experience with large scale software development and modern software architectures.
Experience working across different stages of the IT sourcing life cycle including requirements gathering, evaluation, software development, commercial assessment, and negotiation.
Excellent communicator, ability to collaborate and integrate teams around a common mission.
Experience in scaling software teams and managing across the full software development lifecycle from new product development through to running highly scaled mission critical production solutions.
Proven Track Record in shaping and delivering software for technology-enabled transformation programmes. Experience working in a SAAS company an advantage. Experience working in a start up a major advantage.
Strong understanding of emerging and innovative technologies, and how to shape IT strategy and delivery in order to leverage those technologies. Develop and own company standards/policies around opensource, security and compliance.
Experience in scaling software teams and managing across the full software development lifecycle from new product development through to running highly scaled mission critical production solutions.
Experience of working as part of an executive team and/or reporting to boards or investors.
Strategic thinker. Strong problem solver. Good team building and management skills. Good communication skills, presentation skills, written skills, customer/partner relationships.
