Chief Technology Officer; Remote

About Tag Software Group

TAG Software Group is a team of experienced investors and operators dedicated to acquiring, enhancing, and growing mission‑critical software companies serving SMB, enterprise, and public sector customers. Founded as part of Valsoft Corporation, TAG provides a permanent home for software companies; we don’t buy to sell. Our focus is on long‑term partnerships that protect your legacy, employees, and customers. Our in‑house team delivers an efficient, transparent, and seller‑friendly process, ensuring speed and certainty of close.

Once part of TAG, your company gains access to proven best practices, dedicated value‑creation resources, and the extended ecosystem of our sister companies, including proprietary in‑house technology such as Val Pay and Sadie AI – helping your business reach the next level.

Investment Approach

Unlike private equity and venture capital firms, we are entrepreneurs who buy, enhance and grow software businesses. We do not sell businesses. We form a strategic alliance with existing management teams and place a premium on customers’ and workers’ well‑being over short‑term goals.

Culture

Tag Software Group is more than just a place to work; we’re a team. We value people as our greatest assets and invest in them as a priority. We create an environment where employees feel first‑day excitement day after day, fostering a culture of high performance and collaboration. We celebrate milestones and are proud. We Dream Big, Stay Humble, and Stay Hungry.

We are looking for a hands‑on and commercially minded Chief Technology Officer to lead the technology function of a SaaS platform business. This leadership role requires strategic vision while staying close to technology, architecture, and engineering practices to guide execution.

The platform is hosted on Microsoft Azure and supports a cloud‑based architecture that includes microservices, event‑driven design, Kubernetes, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, App Service, Postgre

SQL, and Azure SQL Server. The environment involves modernizing an existing platform and developing new product capabilities.

The CTO will lead the engineering organization, shape the technical roadmap, improve delivery practices, and ensure the platform can scale securely, reliably, and efficiently. The candidate will collaborate with product, operations, and business leadership to align technology decisions with customer needs and commercial priorities.

Key responsibilities include integrating Generative AI and LLM capabilities into the platform, scaling AI‑driven development practices, defining guardrails, and ensuring AI improves productivity, quality, testing, documentation, and delivery speed without compromising engineering discipline.

• Lead and develop the engineering organization across architecture, software delivery, security, and operations.
• Define and execute the technology strategy in partnership with product and business leadership.
• Shape the technical roadmap to support platform modernization, scalability, reliability, product growth, and customer needs.
• Guide architectural decisions across cloud infrastructure, application architecture, data platforms, integration patterns, security, and operational resilience.
• Balance modernization, technical debt reduction, and delivery of new product capabilities.
• Support ISO 27001 readiness through secure development practices, technical controls, documentation, and audit support.
• Lead the integration of Generative AI and LLM capabilities into the product roadmap.
• Scale AI‑driven development practices across engineering, building on existing developer usage.
• Define guardrails and quality standards for AI‑assisted coding, testing, documentation, code review, and delivery workflows.
• Improve engineering productivity, delivery predictability, software quality, and operational maturity.
• Ensure effective use of project management, issue tracking, CI/CD, and version control tools such as JIRA, Git Hub, or equivalent platforms.
• Partner with cross‑functional leaders to align technical delivery with customer needs, commercial priorities, and operational requirements.
• Build clear team…