Chief Technology Officer. McLean LilyLifestyle

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is the company's top technology leader. As an integral member of the executive team, the CTO sets the overarching technology roadmap, ensuring that all technologies deployed are built for scale, security, and competitive advantage. The CTO drives the company's shift to a more modern enterprise architecture, enabling advanced digitization as a competitive advantage to the operations of the business.

Leading a high-impact team of 40+, the incumbent must possess refined emotional intelligence, a high degree of integrity, and a proven history of managing complex, modern technology environments across any industry landscape.

• Enterprise
  
  Roadmap:
  
  Define, communicate, and execute a multi-year technology strategy that aligns with long-term business goals and anticipates market shifts.

• Executive Partnership: Serve as a key advisor to the leadership team, translating complex technical concepts into actionable business opportunities and competitive advantages.

• Innovation Engine: Manage the organization's innovation pipeline, encouraging experimentation through agile principles and the ethical integration of emerging capabilities like Generative AI.

• Culture of Excellence: Foster a solution-oriented culture that values business enablement, high accountability, and a "security-first" mindset.

• Strategic Change Management: Act as the primary catalyst for digital transformation, securing buy-in from a broad range of stakeholders, from Board members to field operations.

• Talent Mentorship: Recruit, retain, and develop a high-performing technical staff using a supportive, collaborative, and growth-oriented approach.

• Unified Priorities: Drive alignment among individual IT departments to enhance success and impact across a strategic set of enterprise priorities.

• Architectural Evolution: Lead the transition from a portfolio of point solutions to a more streamlined, scalable, and cost-effective architecture (Cloud, SaaS, Microservices) to support an evolving growth strategy.

• Systems Harmonization: Direct a comprehensive enterprise-wide architecture evolution to better integrate systems and data, and enable workflow based technology capabilities through seamless data and process flow across disparate systems.

• Core Systems Oversight: In collaboration with business owners, set the priority for modernizing and optimizing ERP, CRM, and Knowledge Management systems.

• Governance & Optimization: Facilitate cross-departmental alignment through a robust systems governance structure, ensuring the organization maximizes the ROI of its software investments.

• Process Re-engineering: Partner with cross-functional leaders to audit and optimize core business workflows, driving towards increased leverage of technology and automation to eliminate manual bottlenecks.

• Fiscal Accountability: Develop and manage the total IT operating and capital expenditure budgets, ensuring strict alignment with strategic objectives.

• Strategic Procurement: Oversee the fiscally responsible procurement of all technology assets, managing vendor relationships and contract negotiations to ensure favorable terms and service levels.

• Mission-Critical Uptime: Lead the strategy and maintenance of all IT infrastructure to ensure national project teams and operations remain fully functional and connected 24/7.

• Resilience & Security: Oversee the operability, health, and security of technology systems, communication lines, and equipment, prioritizing network health and reliability.

• Capacity Planning: Review and manage IT resource demands to ensure infrastructure meets both current operational needs and anticipated future growth in a cost-effective manner.

• Data as a Strategic Asset: Strengthen the data ecosystem through implementation of robust governance, data lifecycle management, adherence to privacy standards, and advanced analytics tools that facilitate high-level business decisions.

• Security Compliance: Partner with senior leadership to monitor and validate compliance with internal controls and information security policies.

• Disaster Recovery: Own the comprehensive disaster recovery strategy to ensure business continuity and zero data loss.

• Business Acumen: Deep understanding of the operational and financial drivers of broader business management.

• Innovative & Transformational: Seeks continuous improvement by developing new solutions while maintaining excellence in current commitments.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Ability to persuade and gain "buy-in" from diverse groups, from technical engineers to non-technical executives.

• Agile & Results-Oriented: Displays a data-driven, energetic approach to achieving objectives while factoring in high "EQ."

• Executive
  
  Experience:
  
  Proven background as a CTO, CIO, or Head of…