Chief Technology Officer - Toronto, Canada - Aughdem Recruitment

Aughdem Recruitment

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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About:

Our client, a leader in the e-commerce space, is looking for their next Chief Technology Officer. Their business is built on four fundamental core values and their next CTO will embody those values. Customer obsession - providing the very best customer experience. Growth - valuing curiosity as a catalyst to growth, personally, and professionally. Trust - trust permeates every aspect of the business, people, and service they provide. Humility - they are confident yet humble and believe in serving first.

Responsibilities:

Lead, inspire, and mentor a team of 30 talented engineers while encouraging collaboration in the workplace.
Oversee all daytoday activities in development including infrastructure, operations, cybersecurity, data governance, data management, systems design, and enterprise architecture.
Develop a longterm strategic roadmap that supports company goal and objectives.
Maintain industry leading uptime on critical technology infrastructure through great architectural decisions, effective monitoring, and testing processes.
Maintain a handson approach to management while implementing best practices and procedures.
Sharing indepth programming experience and knowledge amongst developers to plan further technology developments for the organization.
Monitor KPI's and IT budgets to assess technological performance.
Attend, report, and advise board meetings with managing partners as required.
Ensure data privacy and system security compliance.
Work closely with developers, understanding where they are finding success and where they need work.
Ability to recognize, recruit and develop talent within the organization.
Effectively communicate strategy to managing partners.

Qualifications:

Minimum 5 years of CTO experience with an established organization.
Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field. A graduate degree is an asset.
Deep handson technical experience with PHP, MySQL, Pearl, AWS, and Agile methodologies.
Experience leading and managing a team of 25+ employees.
Strategic mindset and desire to solve business challenges.
Excellent verbal and written skills while effectively communicating complex technical information to a variety of audiences.
Ability to work well under pressure, prioritizing, and resolving complex issues in an effective manner.
Experience with a startup is an asset.
Exceptional team management skills.