A terrific opportunity to lead a team of over 40 talented staff in a key transformation senior role.

Client Details

Our client is a global software development house looking for an experienced CTO lead a talented team of 40. The CTO will be responsible for delivering commercial IT outcomes in line with the business expectations and strategy while playing a key strategic role across the overall organisation as part of the senior management team.

Description

The CTO will be responsible for:

• Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends, emerging technologies, and software development best practices.
• Partnering with the Executive Team to develop policies and programs.
• Working collaboratively with the Executive Leadership Team as an advisor on technological approaches, to maximise the company’s opportunity to achieve their business objectives through innovative solutions.
• Lead strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritising development initiatives and setting timetables for the evaluation, development, and deployment of product solutions
• Participating as a member of the senior management team in establishing governance processes of direction and control, including business transformation programs, to ensure that objectives are achieved and risks are managed appropriately.
• Development and execution of an enterprise-wide information security plan that protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the company’s data and servers.

Profile

As the successful candidate you will ideally possess:

• Minimum of 10 years’ commercial experience in software development.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in leading and managing teams.
• Experience with an agile methodology.
• Experience with an agile methodology
• Excellent analytical, evaluative, and problem solving abilities
• Self-motivated and customer focused
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent time-management skills
• Ability to motivate in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Ability to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Track record managing a team of Developers, Testers, Product Owners, UX/UI, Architects, BA's and Project Leads.
• Experience with client-server and cloud applications.