Vishwa Samudra - Chief Technology Officer

Chief Technology Officer

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Work with the leadership team to set clear priorities and goals for IT management and production, balancing the long-term and immediate needs.

- Develop and manage annual and quarterly budgets.

- Oversee data security, management, and governance.

- Manage strategic vendor and technology partner relationships.

- Manage IT resource allocation, goal/KPI setting, and performance metrics.

- Define the company's overall technology strategy to support business objectives.

- Make infrastructure decisions, ensuring technical excellence, versatility, safety and soundness, resiliency and scalability in the architecting and engineering of product solutions, as well as managing all technical delivery.

- Facilitate the development and implementation of disaster recovery and IT security failure plans.

- Ensure tight collaboration across departments to drive strategic initiatives, including understanding of the alignment between technology strategy and various technology road maps.

- Create strategic plans and set timelines for evaluation, development, and deployment of all technical, web, and mobile services.

Qualifications & Mandatory Skills:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or related field (master's degree preferred).

- Previous experience as a CTO, director, or similar leadership role.

- Prior experience as a senior engineering leader overseeing architecture and engineering for enterprise wide technology platforms and leading SaaS technology platforms.

- Broad knowledge of software engineering: languages, frameworks, techniques, and industry trends.

- Experience leading complex, major changes and initiatives; demonstrated skills in change management on an organizational and interpersonal level; experience with integrating teams across multiple business units and managing a geographically dispersed workforce.

- Experience designing and managing an effective IT governance framework across the spectrum of IT service delivery.

- Strong department leader with skills in strategic planning, goal setting, processes development, budgeting, and creating opportunities for professional development within technology teams.

- Excellent communication, leadership, and strategic thinking abilities with a problem-solving aptitude.

- Solid understanding of broad technology trends and the ability to align innovation with business goals.

- Strong communication with ability to convey technical topics in easy-to-understand business terms and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and external partners.

- Strategic smarts, including the ability to identify new opportunities, drive clarity, create focus, and make tough decisions in complex and dynamic contexts.

- Ability to track and identify new technologies to solve complex business issues.