Chief Technology Officer

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About the role

We are looking for a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to provide sound technical leadership in all aspects of our business. You will communicate with employees, stakeholders and customers to ensure our company’s technologies are used appropriately.

Strategic thinking and strong business acumen are essential in this role. We expect you to be well-versed in current technological trends and familiar with a variety of business concepts. If you are also an excellent communicator and public speaker, we’d like to meet you**.**

**Responsibilities**
- Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors
- Assist in recruiting, onboarding and training IT managers
- Identify what technologies can be used to improve the company’s products and services
- 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
- Take the initiative in thought leadership, innovation and creativity
- Work closely with Marketing, Business Development and Operations to define and deliver new products and enhancements

**Requirements and skills**
- Strong department leader with skills in strategic planning, goal setting, processes development, budgeting, and creating opportunities for professional development within technology teams.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and strategic thinking abilities with a problem-solving aptitude.
- Solid understanding of broad technology trends and the ability to align innovation with business goals.
- Strong communication with ability to convey technical topics in easy-to-understand business terms and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and external partners.
- Strategic smarts, including the ability to identify new opportunities, drive clarity, create focus, and make tough decisions in complex and dynamic contexts.
- Ability to track and identify new technologies to solve complex business issues.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or related field (master’s degree preferred).
- Previous experience as a CTO, director, or similar leadership role.
- Prior experience as a senior engineering leader overseeing architecture and engineering for enterprise-wide technology platforms and leading SaaS technology platforms.
- Broad knowledge of software engineering: languages, frameworks, techniques, and industry trends.
- Experience leading complex, major changes and initiatives; demonstrated skills in change management on an organizational and interpersonal level; experience with integrating teams across multiple business units and managing a geographically dispersed workforce.
- Experience designing and managing an effective IT governance framework across the spectrum of IT service delivery.

About you

Optional Skills

Desired Languages - English & Arabic

Travel Requirements - Upto 25%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship? - Yes

About APTUN

Why Aptun?

Being the best we can be is in our culture.

We are a family of smart, innovative and creative problem solvers. At Aptun, everything feels like it matters more. Challenge us and help us come up with new solutions to ensure businesses sustain and growth.

Our commitment to you

Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can. Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our network.

Who we are

APTUN is a multifaceted company specializing in providing managed solutions and services with speed and agility in Management Consulting, Information Technology, Digital and HR.

In today’s fast-paced world, every business needs to be innovative to compete. That’s where we come in, by creating transformational solutions to dramatically improve productivity and create opportunities to get in front of the competition. We help companies transform data into business impact by delivering tangible results across the entire value-chain.

We are much more than the regular Company. Our approach is unique, we sit at the intersection of consulting, marketing, human capital, and data science, where we solve business problems with data-driven decision making and technology in new and creative ways because we believe technology should enrich lives - that’s why we do what we do.

Headquartered in Qatar, with delivery centres in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain & India, Aptun is driven by talented, passionate team willing to go the extra mile to bring g