Description
Set the technology vision and strategy and provide overall leadership for engineering, data, security, and IT within executive and board guidelines. Plan, direct, and coordinate enterprise technology operations, platforms, and innovation at the highest level with the help of subordinate leaders.
- • Set and manage the technology budget and investments to deliver the roadmap and improve efficiency.
- • Confer with the CEO, board, and executives on technology strategy, risks, and performance.
- • Analyze engineering, data, and IT operations to evaluate outcomes and identify improvements or cost reductions.
- • Define and implement technology policies, standards, and objectives for resilience, scalability, and productivity.
- • Prepare technology and R&D budgets for approval.
- • Oversee software engineering, platform operations, architecture, data, and IT service delivery.
- • Negotiate or approve contracts with cloud providers, SaaS vendors, integrators, and technology partners.
- • Review technical reports, roadmaps, KPIs, and risk assessments; approve plans or recommend changes.
- • Appoint senior engineering, security, data, and IT leaders and delegate accountability.
- • Direct technology talent strategy, including leadership hiring, workforce planning, and org design.
- • Serve on executive committees, architecture councils, and governance boards.
- • Present technology performance, budget, risk, and compliance reports to the board and executives.
- • Establish team responsibilities and coordinate engineering and IT functions across sites.
- • Implement corrective actions to remediate outages, security gaps, quality issues, or delivery delays.
- • Establish technology governance, portfolio management, and compliance controls and systems.
- • Lead core functions such as architecture, DevOps, SRE, cybersecurity, data engineering, and enterprise IT.
- • Speak at conferences, publish thought leadership, and articulate the technology vision externally.
- • Act as liaison with key customers, partners, and investors on technology matters.
- • Nominate leaders to internal councils, steering committees, and change advisory boards.
- • Interpret and communicate technology regulations and standards (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR) to stakeholders.
- • Present programs and controls to regulators, auditors, or customer security reviews as needed.
- • Escalate major policy or investment decisions to the CEO and board for final approval.
- • Oversee cloud region strategy, data center usage, and procurement of hardware, software, and tools.
- • Lead technology due diligence and integration planning for mergers, acquisitions, or strategic partnerships.
- • Direct R&D and technology scouting on emerging tools, platforms, AI, and architectures.
- • Participate in cross-functional steering committees with product, finance, operations, and legal.
- • Align technology roadmaps with product strategy and approve developer advocacy and platform evangelism initiatives.
- • Direct incident response, root-cause analyses, and remediation for reliability, security, or compliance events.
- • Represent the company at industry forums and with developer and open-source communities.
- • Establish engineering playbooks, coding standards, and SDLC practices; ensure adherence.
- • Monitor technology-related legislation, privacy and cybersecurity laws, and standards; advise leadership on impacts.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
