Chief Technology Officer – hybrid Revel IT

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Columbus, Ohio client seeking an experienced Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to join its executive team. The successful candidate will act as the senior Engineering leader, responsible for driving business growth through technology innovation, setting quality benchmarks, standardizing practices, and building a more durable Engineering organization.

The position is hybrid and requires three days each week in the office. This leader will oversee the consolidation and modernization of a bifurcated technology stack, ensuring excellence in operations and modern software development practices and will work across the company to align the technology strategy with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities and Strategic Priorities

The CTO will serve as a strategic technology leader and visionary, driving the engineering organization’s architecture, product roadmap, and operational excellence. This role requires deep technical leadership across various domains including AWS cloud infrastructure, Ruby and React-based SaaS development, and the application of emerging AI technologies — coupled with an understanding of the complex data and compliance requirements of U.S. State Health and Human Services systems.

Job Description 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 Dev Ops 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, Postgre
  
  SQL, S3, and so on.
• Proven technical depth in the current modern stack:
  Ruby on Rails, React/Type Script, 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…