Chief Technological Officer at Vantegral Consulting

Role Purpose

• The Chief Technological Officer would oversee MCL’s technical solutioning, pre‑sales architecture, and technology strategy across Communication & Connectivity, Data Centre Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Managed Services.
• The role ensures MCL delivers compelling, competitive, and technically sound solutions that win business, deepen OEM partnerships, and enable successful project execution
• This leader manages the Solutions Architects, Pre‑Sales Engineers, and Technical Practice Leads, ensuring strong collaboration with Sales, Delivery, and OEM partners.

Key Responsibilities
Technology Strategy & Solution Leadership:

• Define MCL’s solution strategy and technology roadmap across networking, data centre, cybersecurity, and managed services.
• Develop and maintain reusable solution architectures, reference designs, and standardised bill-of-materials.
• Ensure solutions are aligned with OEM best practices, industry standards, and customer requirements.
• Guide adoption of cloud, hybrid architectures, automation, SASE, and modern security frameworks.

Sales Engineering & Pre‑Sales Leadership:

• Lead the pre‑sales function, ensuring high-quality technical proposals, solution designs, and SOWs.
• Partner with Sales to qualify opportunities, shape customer requirements, and position MCL competitively.
• Provide senior technical representation in customer meetings, workshops, and executive briefings.
• Oversee technical bid responses, RFP submissions, and solution costing.

OEM & Partner Management:

• Own strategic relationships with key OEMs (Cisco, Fortinet, VMware, Ribbon, etc.).
• Drive partner competency attainment, joint go‑to‑market initiatives, and technical enablement.
• Manage escalation paths with OEMs for solution design, support, and certification requirements.

Delivery Alignment & Solution Assurance:

• Work closely with Delivery Leads to ensure solutions are implementable, scalable, and cost-effective.
• Provide solution assurance during project kickoff and major milestones.
• Support resolution of complex technical issues that impact customer satisfaction or project outcomes.
• Ensure smooth handover from pre‑sales to delivery teams.

People Leadership & Capability Development:

• Lead and develop the Solutions Architecture and Pre‑Sales Engineering teams.
• Build technical capability through structured learning paths, certifications, and OEM training.
• Set performance goals, coach team members, and build succession pipelines.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and customer-centricity.

Governance, Documentation & Quality:

• Maintain solution documentation, architecture standards, and technical governance processes.
• Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and OEM requirements.
• Improve quality of proposals, designs, and customer-facing technical materials.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 12+ years’ experience in enterprise technology (networking, data centre, cybersecurity).
• 5+ years in pre‑sales, solutions architecture, or technical leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading technical teams (solutions architects, pre‑sales engineers, or practice leads).
• Strong background designing enterprise network, DC, and security solutions.
• Demonstrated success engaging C-level stakeholders and supporting complex sales cycles.
• Experience working with major OEMs (Cisco, Fortinet, VMware, etc.).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Relevant certifications strongly preferred: CCNP/CCIE, NSE, VCP, AWS/Azure, ITIL, CISSP.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in managed services solutioning and ITSM frameworks.
• Exposure to automation tools (Terraform, Ansible), observability platforms, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience developing repeatable offerings or productised solutions.
• Familiarity with telco, large enterprise, or data centre transformation projects.

Core Competencies:

• Strong commercial and customer-facing presence.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Strategic thinker with strong execution discipline.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Team builder with a coaching mindset.
• Calm, structured, and analytical under pressure.