CTO (Chief Technology Officer)
GTECH Information Technology, India

Experience
1 Year
Salary
0 - 0
Job Type
Job Shift
Job Category
Traveling
No
Career Level
Telecommute
Qualification
Master's Degree
Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
Feb 23, 2021
Last Date
Mar 23, 2021
Location(s)

Job Description

GTECH is seeking a highly-skilled CTO with a history in the tech sector. The CTO will be tasked with making executive technology decisions on behalf of the company, including managing a technology budget and making investments to align the company with their vision for its technological needs. You should be a strategic thinker, an effective communicator and a forerunner in technological development.

You will work directly under the CEO and will act as both a technology expert, making decisions that will impact the current and future operations of the company.

The ideal candidate should:

  • Manage people and processes
  • Establish a tech strategy
  • Represent the company
  • Coach and mentor developers
  • Choose the tech stack while keeping in mind the project’s maintainability, scalability,
  • and stability
  • Improve existing architecture
  • Think outside the box
  • Challenging the conventional wisdom
  • Move decisively towards business goals
  • Be flexible
  • Participate in strategy planning
  • Participate in company management
  • Keep track of and analyze the competition to suggest technological innovations
  • Suggest ways that technology can help the company be more successful
  • Oversee an external workforce (outsourced team)
  • Keep track of tech trends in the industry and identify competitive advantages
  • Evaluate the technical efficiency of the company
  • Oversee IT budgets to optimize expenditures


Operational management

The CTO should be an A-level developer with deep knowledge of programming, but purely development-related tasks take the back seat. Instead of coding, the CTO should shape the technology strategy and manage the engineering efforts within the organization.

  • Design and implement a software architecture
  • Select a technology stack
  • Design and configure infrastructure
  • Select a development toolkit (IDE, etc.)
  • Design and implement a database design
  • Improve and optimize the application architecture
  • Ensure scalability of the application
  • Ensure scalability of the infrastructure
  • Explore new technologies and decide whether to implement them

Development Team lead

As the development team lead, a CTO needs to communicate with team members and solve any conflicts.

  • Define and implement development standards according to up-to-date coding methodologies and best practices
  • Build an agile development culture
  • Set up a development team workflow
  • Conduct code reviews
  • Perform design reviews
  • Break down development tasks
  • Supervise hiring of developers
  • Mentor newly hired developers
  • Communicate with stakeholders
  • Determine KPIs of developers
  • Monitor developers’ progress
  • Manage technical risk

Responsibilities

  • Develop technical aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals
  • Discover and implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage
  • Help departments use technology profitably
  • Supervise system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency
  • Build quality assurance and data protection processes
  • Monitor KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance
  • Use stakeholders’ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology
  • Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors
  • Setting a vision for how technology will be used in the company.
  • Ensuring that technological resources meet the company's short and long-term needs.
  • Outline the goals for research and development.
  • Creating timelines for the development and deployment of all technological services.
  • Making executive decisions on behalf of the company's technological requirements.
  • Acting as a mentor to team members.
  • Maintaining a consumer-focused outlook and aiding in the delivering of IT projects to market.
  • Managing technology budgets and time frames.
  • Staying on top of technology trends and developments.
  • Ensuring all technology practices adhere to regulatory standards.

Requirements

  • Proven experience as a CTO or similar leadership role
  • Knowledge of technological trends to build the strategy
  • Understanding of budgets and business-planning
  • Ability to conduct technological analyses and research
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Leadership and organizational abilities
  • Strategic thinking
  • Problem-solving aptitude
  • BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field; MBA or other relevant graduate degree is a plus
  • 8 years working

Job Specification

Job Rewards and Benefits

GTECH Information Technology

Information Technology and Services - Dhaka, India
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