Chief Technology Officer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Chief Technology Officer based in Canada. This is a senior technology leadership opportunity focused on shaping the future of enterprise software that supports critical public-sector and justice systems. You will own the technology strategy, architecture, product development, and engineering direction across a complex software portfolio. The role combines long-term technical vision with hands-on organizational leadership, modernization, product thinking, and operational excellence. You will work closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to align technology investments with customer needs and business priorities. A major part of the mandate will be building a high-performing technology organization while advancing secure, scalable, reliable, and configurable platforms. You will also help identify emerging technologies and new opportunities, including the practical application of AI and data-driven capabilities. Accountabilities - Develop and lead a multi-year technology strategy and roadmap aligned with long-term organizational goals, ensuring the technical vision is understood and adopted across the business. - Establish a customer-centric, problem-first product development approach that ensures teams understand user needs, business challenges, and desired outcomes before committing to technical solutions. - Identify emerging technologies, market opportunities, partnerships, and potential acquisitions that can strengthen existing products and create new sources of value. - Advise executive leadership on technology investments, build-versus-buy decisions, strategic partnerships, acquisitions, and other major technology initiatives.

- Define the architectural vision and engineering principles for secure, scalable, configurable, modular, repeatable, and maintainable systems that can evolve as customer and business needs change. - Promote platform thinking through reusable services, APIs, shared components, and common capabilities that can support multiple products and business units. - Lead modernization of the technology portfolio by balancing investment in existing platforms with technical debt reduction, consolidation, modernization, and next-generation capabilities. - Lead the engineering organization with a culture centered on ownership, craftsmanship, continuous improvement, pragmatic decision-making, quality, reliability, and security. - Advance modern engineering practices while balancing speed of delivery with operational resilience, product quality, cybersecurity, and long-term maintainability. - Support the organization's transition toward Agile methodologies and Scrum-at-Scale, helping teams adopt effective delivery practices and continuous improvement. - Build strong partnerships across departments, creating alignment around technology priorities, timelines, resources, dependencies, and organizational goals. - Translate complex technical concepts into clear business language for executives and non-technical stakeholders while bringing business context and customer priorities back to technical teams. - Build, lead, and develop a high-performing technology organization through organizational design, leadership development, succession planning, workforce strategy, and recruitment of critical technical talent. - Establish and maintain appropriate standards for security, privacy, compliance, and data governance, including requirements relevant to government agencies, courts, and criminal justice environments such as CJIS. - Oversee technology investment, performance, operational resilience, and resource allocation to ensure systems remain reliable, scalable, secure, and prepared for business continuity.