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Chief Technology Officer Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Chief Technology Officer to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Ensuring targets for the development and deployment of all technological services are met;
- Providing technical leadership and guiding a high-performance team in the execution of Agile product development;
- Financial: Define budgets for the organisation’s technology and resources needs;
- Product development around the Battery Management System (BMS), power management control system & related data capture;
- Full development lifecycle management for new innovations around the existing product portfolio – through to product launch;
- Team Management: Organise and motivate a team of engineers covering software development and operations, both on-shore and off-shore;
- Identify market obstacles and technical hurdles and manage risks appropriately;
- Develop technical aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals;
- Develop the overall technical strategy for the company;
- Help departments use technology profitably;
- Monitor KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance;
- Discover and implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage;
- Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors;
- Maximise the returns and benefits of investments in technology and tools;
- Supervise system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency.
Requirements:
- With at least 5 years’ recent experience in a senior leadership role in a mid-sized organisation;
- Proven track record of building, leading and developing multi-disciplinary teams;
- Knowledge of successful technological environments;
- Passionate about being innovative and pro-active in driving change to support other business functions with pace;
- Preferably with a background in software development, database management or business intelligence;
- Knowledge of latest technology trends;
- Knowledge of change management;
- Gravitas to influence at most senior level;
- Determined, resilient and controlled under pressure;
- Commercially astute;
- Ability to identify and leverage resources internally and externally to enhance capabilities that drive digital business;
- Ideally background / experience from co-working / leisure / hotel sectors;
- Ability to lead an IT function;
- 3 rd party supplier negotiations;
- Software Development.