Chief Technology Officer - itForte
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18-04-2024
Job Description
Our client is a global engineering procurement and construction firm specializing in the mining power generation petrochemical processing infrastructure and commercial industries.
The company plans to recruit a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for their Saudi subsidiary who will oversee companys technology infrastructure and information systems.
Key Responsibilities:
The recruited candidate will be responsible for the following:
- Manage technical teams consisting of existing IT infrastructure Applications and the new software development.
- Develop IT policies and procedures and prepare Technology master plan
- IT strategic Planning Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and overall Program Management
Develop short and longterm technology objectives in line with the long term strategic objectives of the company
- Continuity/Disaster Recovery planning to support critical functionality during crisis.
- Establish a user service and support process with particular responsibility for webbased services that implement the support function.
- Review and critically evaluate technology needs and project feasibility based on managements requirements priorities and cost constraints.
- Identify important technology trends and industry best practices and formulate a strategy to effectively leverage them
- Communicate companys technology strategy to the company management staff partners and stakeholders
- Define the companys software development and implementation methodologies
- Establish a robust conformance and testing strategy for the development/delivery team
- Formulate an enterprisewide information security plan that protects the confidentiality integrity and availability of the companys data and servers
- Select and manage relationships with external vendors / agencies for hardware software applications outsourced development data center etc. to ensure the best service delivery and cost
- Participate in the overall strategic planning process as a member of the senior management team.
Key Requirements
- A Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or related technical discipline
- 20 yrs experience in technology with at least 5 yrs in a similar role with a reputed company
- Should have strong leadership experience and solid communication skills.
- Must have a solid software development and management background and is abreast with the latest technology advancements and best practices
- Exceptionally good team leader/player with very effective communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to envision large transactional platforms and business
- Expertise in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and experience building and scaling Enterprise business on SaaS models
- Good understanding of Open Source technologies such as LAMP and Java
- Familiarity with latest development tools platforms and development and implementation methodologies
- Experience with Cloud Computing
- Understanding of information security standards system vulnerabilities and risk management practices
- Exposure to business process reengineering governance management budgeting and administrative processes and best practices
- Experience dealing with external vendors / agencies for outsourced development
Location: Dammam SaudiArabia
Contract Type: Long term Permanent
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