Job Description
Job Description
The CTO will be responsible for defining and executing a multi-year strategy focused on: I. Strategy and Architectural Leadership
- Define a unifying engineering strategy and roadmap for managing the success of customers, leveraging Compass and Traverse while designing our next-generation offerings.
- Establish clear architectural governance and set consistent technical direction across the entire product portfolio.
II. Technology Modernization and Remediation
- Drive the evaluation and standardization of CI/CD practices and modern DevOps pipelines to enable scalable, efficient SaaS delivery.
- Lead the adoption and institutionalization of a GenAI-assisted approach to increase engineering throughput.
- Advance the use of GenAI and emerging technologies within the product to benefit customers and the next
generation of innovation.
III. Organizational Development and Efficiency
- Evaluate and refine the engineering organization to ensure an effective structure, strong leadership, and a
culture that fosters innovation, continuous skill development, and scalable growth. - Implement continuous improvement in AWS operations, monitoring, services, cost profiles and core engineering processes.
- Set measurable engineering goals that track output, identify improvement opportunities, and drive accountability.
IV. Security and Compliance
- Implement continuous improvement in the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC) while supporting compliance and industry standard practices.
- Oversee incident response, vulnerability management, and security posture.
- Lead Business Continuity (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DRP) readiness efforts.
V. Health and Human Services Expertise
- Align products with state HHS regulations and case management needs.
- Lead interoperability efforts with systems like SACWIS, CCWIS, Medicaid, and SNAP/TANF.
- Maintain awareness of federal and state technology frameworks (ACF, CMS, NIEM, NC Child Welfare Data
Framework).
Who will they work closely with?
- They will work closely with the product team, the engineering managers and their teams, as well as the commercial team for product feedback and roadmap decisions.
- They will also serve as a member of the executive leadership team alongside the CEO, the head of finance and accounting, the head of culture and talent, and the head of commercial
Qualifications:
- Extensive experience (10+ years) in senior engineering leadership roles, such as VP of Engineering, CTO, or similar.
- Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture, particularly the AWS ecosystem: EKS, EC2, Lambda, PostgreSQL, S3, and so on.
- Proven technical depth in the current modern stack: Ruby on Rails, React/TypeScript, and modern CI/CD.
- Experience in managing, maintaining, and modernizing C# / .NET Framework applications and complex installer/deployment tooling (MSI, WiX).
- Prior experience with security compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA) and implementing preventative security controls (SAST, SCA).
- Demonstrated ability to drive cultural change, adopt new technologies, such as Generative AI.
Ideal candidate:
- High-drive, early-career leader with strong growth potential
- Strategic thinker with hands-on execution capability
- Experienced in fast-paced product development
- Able to lead Engineering and support cross-functional teams
- Skilled in outsourcing and AI
- Guides platform, tooling, and architecture decisions
- Coaches Delivery Managers and drives technical innovation
- Accelerates product scaling and delivery efficiency
- Assesses and improves structure, resources, and processes
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