Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Protege Professionals

Report To: MD/CEO

Summary

• The CTO shall be responsible for directing all network planning engineering and operations for the company and ensuring that the network evolution, performance, services, and products are designed, implemented, provisioned and managed to meet quality and business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Develop technical aspects of the companyТs strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals.
• Setting a vision for how technology will be used in the company.
• Ensuring that technological resources meet the company's short and long-term needs.
• Outline the goals for research and development.
• Creating timelines for the development and deployment of all technological services.
• Making executive decisions on behalf of the company's technological requirements.
• Acting as a mentor to team members.
• Maintaining a consumer-focused outlook and aiding in the delivery of IT projects to market.
• Managing technology budgets and time frames.
• Staying on top of technology trends and developments.
• Ensuring all technology practices adhere to regulatory standards.
• Discover and implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage.
• Help departments use technology profitably.
• Supervise system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency.
• Build quality assurance and data protection processes.
• Monitor KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance.
• Use stakeholdersТ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology.
• Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors.

Key Competency Requirements
Knowledge:

• Sound knowledge in site acquisition for Telecom infrastructure business/real estate.
• Preferably worked in telecom Industry site acquisition.
• Must be familiar with Purchase / Lease terms and requirements, zoning, permitting, regulatory and jurisdictional forms and requirements.
• Experience with the development and operations of transmission backbone fiber optic cable networks, possibly including submarine.
• Experience deploying backbone network solutions using SDH, IP and MPLS Technologies.
• Experienced manager with ability to recruit and grow middle level technical management.
• Strong technical and network engineering and operations skills.
• Proven experience of managing technology budgets against specific commercial objectives.
• Ability to apply leadership and management skills as well as processes to ensure that business objectives are set, understood and met.
• Ability to lead technology evolution of the company to address market opportunities.
• Ability to present compelling business cases for capital investment.
• Ability to deliver network features and enhancements on time and on budget.
• Ability to effectively communicate, inspire and motivate all levels of staff to achieve business objectives.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a CTO or similar leadership role.
• 15 years' cognitive experience.
• Knowledge of technological trends to build strategy.
• Understanding of budgets and business-planning.
• Ability to conduct technological analyses and research.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Leadership and organizational abilities.
• Strategic thinking.
• Problem-solving aptitude.
• B.Sc / BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field; MBA or other relevant graduate degree is a plus.