Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities

• The CTO will be responsible for driving strategy, creating momentum at Pan African level for key clients and proactively leading the account(s) for a host of clients who require Technology driven solutions
  


• You will be visionary in developing and accelerating proprietary product development, seamlessly delivering client projects along with the Dev ops and QA teams.
  


• You will possess the business acumen to discover market gaps and deliver revenue growth with sharp salesmanship and relationships with CTO’s and CIO’s in Corporate Africa.
  


• You will have excellent team management & leadership skills as you will be part of the EXCO and hence drive and direct teams to deliver future growth of the business.
  

The core responsibilities of this role include;

• Create the technology vision for Squad, a vision that integrates with the developer community.
  


• Lead the strategy for technology platforms, partnerships and external relationships
  


• Represent the technological agenda in staff meetings and when making hiring decisions
  


• Identify, compare, select and implement technology solutions to meet current and future needs
  


• Develop, track and control the development of annual operating and capital budgets in line with the organisation’s financial targets.
  


• Manage and optimize technology assets and human resource infrastructure assets to satisfy internal financial targets
  


• Create overall technology standards and practices and ensure adherence
  


• Track, analyse and monitor technology performance metrics across all 3 growth areas.
  


• Oversee all system design and changes in system architecture
  


• Work closely with Marketing, Business Development and Operations to define and deliver new products and enhancements
  


• Take the initiative in thought leadership, innovation and creativity, representing the organisation at public forums, conferences, etc
  

Requirements

• Ideally, the candidate should have previous working experience as a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) for 7+ year(s)
  


• MA in Engineering, Computer Science or similar relevant field
  


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


• A strong understanding of Machine Learning and related fields.
  


• Hands on experience with complex project management
  


• Outstanding communication, interpersonal and leadership skills
  


• Should have a good understanding of the role of advertising within the broader business context to aid the development of the agency’s relationship with the Client(s) as an IMC partner.
  


• Have innate curiosity