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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 security, 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
The CTO will be responsible for defining and executing a multi-year strategy focused on:
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 DevOps 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, PostgreSQL, S3, and so on.
• Proven technical depth in the current modern stack: Ruby on Rails, React/TypeScript, 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 preventative security controls (SAST, SCA).
• Demonstrated ability to drive cultural change, adopt new technologies, such as Generative AI.

 
Ideal candidate:

• High-drive, early-career leader with strong growth potential
• Strategic thinker with hands-on execution capability
• Experienced in fast-paced product development
• Able to lead Engineering and support cross-functional teams
• Skilled in outsourcing and AI
• Guides platform, tooling, and architecture decisions
• Coaches Delivery Managers and drives technical innovation
• Accelerates product scaling and delivery efficiency
• Assesses and improves structure, resources, and processes

Reference: 1045849
  
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every qualification. At Revel IT, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this or our other open roles! 

  
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