Chief Technology Officer

Company Description

Cloudtrend specializes in building and managing an exclusive network of IT professionals to better their career opportunities and meet the demand of the market. We provide career management services and opportunities.

Job Description

Our potential client is looking for a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) who have the ability to understand and synthesize a vast amount of data, opinions and emerging technologies. He or she will have experience directly contributing to, founding or shepherding a global open source project, creating community-centric technology innovation, and engaging open source contributors to produce high-quality, widely adopted software. As a senior technology executive, this individual will inspire and empower the team to rapidly evolve our technical architecture and ultimately be responsible for, anticipating and proactively addressing organization's technological needs. The CTO will embody and evangelize the organization's mission and commitment to freely-available knowledge for all.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

-Lead, transform and grow complex technology infrastructure and high performance cross-functional technology teams. Foster projects and future product ideas that will lead to innovations in the years to come. Broker and drive to resolution, key architectural and technology implementation decisions. Foster an energetic culture and an ownership and commitment to shared product development goals.

-Develop, inspire and coach the technology leadership team across software engineering, technical operations and product development. Directly manage and mentor 4-6 architects working across the technology stack and product suite.

-Design and implement a winning organizational structure that supports maximum communications and effective execution of technology initiatives. Work closely with project management to transform priorities and requirements into plans that optimize resources and set appropriate expectations.

-Transform organizational integrity: achieve status as a recognized technology leader ensuring proven and scalable agile execution processes in development, technical operations and architecture. Work closely with product management to transform requirements into technical specifications and software designs.

-Own and progress the architectural roadmap, setting the vision and strategy for technology and operations. Work in conjunction with the Executive Director to jointly develop and vet the Foundation’s long-term technology strategy. Contribute to that strategy by qualifying and prioritizing infrastructure efforts.

-Grow and build highly complex technology infrastructure. Anticipate technology scale and capability challenges and communicate clear, proactive plans to address these challenges. Work closely with tech leads and operations to resource key technology initiatives and drive them to completion for existing and future technology expansion.


Qualifications

-Experience stepping into established technical organizations and quickly gaining respect and methodically implementing a robust, effective development practice. Ability to build teams quickly. Effective coach and guide for technical and product talent.

-Experience with large-scale, global internet technologies.

-Understanding of the open source ecosystem product lifecycle with an ability to source and seed innovation and produce quick results.

-Proven ability to set the vision and strategy for technology and operations and to produce an effective roadmap. Comfortable with technology scale and associated architectural challenges and experience proactively addressing them.

-Familiarity with a broad range of technologies and how they interrelate to solve big data, mobility and collaboration problems (ex. Squid and Varnish, Apache, Memcached, MySQL, PHP, Python, Hadoop, Elasticsearch and a broad range of open source components).

-A proven track record of architecting and building API's, and analytics into platforms as well as the development and integration of Mobile.


Plus Skills

-Ability to broker relationships across non-technical and external teams and to promote culture of self-start and accountability.

-Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to establish rapport and trust.

Additional Information

You can also view and apply for the opportunity here on 

http://www.cloudtrend.ca/Job/View/2566/Cloudtrend-Inc-Chief-Technology-Officer-San-Francisco-California-United-States-Information-Technology-IT-job-and-career?UrlRef=40

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