Chief Technical Officer/Senior Technical Leader - IT Firm

The CTO/Senior Tech Lead has primary day-to-day responsibility for technology management of business operations in terms of planning, developing, implementing, managing, growing and maintaining availability, efficiency, profitability and financial viability of all technology related components within the company. The CTO/Senior Tech Lead should be a hands-on coder and will work with day-to-day coding.

The successful candidate must demonstrate an ability to work with and through other people (the executive committee, team members, remotely distributed team members, subcontractors and vendors) to achieve desired results.

Responsibilities :

Technical :

- Develop a technological development plan that meets the needs of both the business and users with technical specifications, high level system architecture, wireframes, timeline and budget

- Own the deliverables of that plan and execute on it by managing outsourced development teams, building and managing internal teams or some combination of the two

- Provide evaluation - options- for the technical direction of the company

Strategic :

- Predict how new technologies might impact the company in the short and long term, with forethought to advise senior management on changes necessary to ensure company leadership in the competitive landscape for 2018 and beyond

- Predict and stay ahead of any technical inflection points that might significantly affect the company

- Advise on the long-term technical strategic direction of the company and where or where not to make large strategic technical bets

- Be an intelligent and pragmatic contributor to strategic and financial decision making at the highest level

Business and Corporate Development :

- Serve as public face of technology for the company for investors and other key stakeholders

- Evangelize the company vision and technical direction through conferences, speaking engagements and press/media/analyst activities

- Maintain good relationships with designated key industry analysts

- Provide technical due diligence of partner technologies and acquisition targets to make sure they properly fit with the company's platforms, offerings and culture

- Track and assess the competitiveness of competitors in the same space