Vital Solutions - Chief Technical Officer

- Leading the strategy for technology platforms, partnerships and external relationships.

- Represent the technological agenda in meetings; and when making hiring decisions for the technology team.

- Define delivery phases of the project inducing activities, sub-activities, and milestones ensuring these are documented and used as the basis for the project event log, issues and risk log and any subsequent reporting.

- Identify, compare, select and implement technology solutions to meet immediate and future needs.

- Implement high quality code in an agile, test-driven development environment.

- Oversee all system design and changes in system architecture; always be up to date with new trends and best practices in technology landscape.

- Provide regular and effective progress updates and work closely with the team to ensure the management of any delivery risks or issues; track, analyse and monitor technology performance metrics.

KEY DELIVERABLES:

- Define short term and long-term technology strategy and goals.

- Recruit and retain key technology and engineering team.

- Select and implement technology platform (including systems architecture and design) for the venture.

- Deliver high quality outputs for each project phase, in time and within target costs.

REQUIREMENTS:

- Bachelor's in computer science, Engineering or a related field.

- Proven work experience as a CTO or similar leadership role (10-15 years)

- Up to date with the latest design trends, techniques and technologies.

- In-depth knowledge of web systems, architecture, design and development.

- Hands on experience with complex project management.

- Understanding of budgets and business planning.

- Leadership and organizational abilities.

- Strategic thinking with problem solving aptitude.

- A self-starter, good communicator and efficient team player.