Chief Technology Officer

2 weeks ago


Dammam, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia Talent Pal Full time
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 This job has been sourced from an external job board.
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