Chief Technology Officer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Establish and oversee AmeriSave's technology center in India.

• Recruit, hire, mentor, and retain talent in engineering, infrastructure, AI, data, security, and technology leadership across India.

• Develop the organizational structure, leadership pipelines, career trajectories, and employee development programs.

• Cultivate a high-performance engineering culture focused on accountability, innovation, collaboration, and operational excellence.

• Collaborate with technology leaders, product leaders, architects, and business stakeholders based in the U.S.

• Lead distributed engineering teams that deliver solutions across various time zones.

• Promote collaboration between technology teams in India and the U.S.

• Establish engineering best practices, delivery standards, and development processes.

• Guide teams in designing, building, and maintaining proprietary technology platforms.

• Advance engineering excellence, architecture governance, code quality, scalability, and software delivery.

• Oversee customer-facing and internal business applications that support the mortgage lifecycle.

• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to support AmeriSave's Azure-based environment.

• Drive initiatives focused on performance, scalability, cost optimization, monitoring, and operational reliability.

• Ensure that applications are highly available and resilient.

• Lead AI-driven innovation projects across software engineering and business operations.

• Identify opportunities for automation, machine learning, generative AI, and intelligent workflow optimization.

• Work with U.S. leadership on the AI roadmap and execution strategy.

• Collaborate with information security, compliance, and risk management teams.

• Ensure that engineering practices are aligned with security standards, financial services regulations, and data privacy requirements.

• Foster a security-first culture among technology teams.

• Advise executive leadership on technology strategies.

• Engage in long-term technology planning and workforce strategies.

• Report on engineering performance, technology investments, risks, and opportunities to senior leadership.

• Manage staffing plans and operating budgets for the technology team in India.

• Promote efficient resource allocation across engineering initiatives.

• Develop long-term workforce strategies that support organizational growth.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 15 years of progressive experience in technology leadership.

• More than 5 years in an executive technology leadership role such as CTO, VP of Engineering, Head of Technology, or Engineering Director.

• Proven track record of leading large-scale software engineering organizations.

• Demonstrated success in establishing, scaling, and leading engineering organizations in India for U.S.-based companies.

• Extensive experience in recruiting and developing high-performing engineering teams.

• Strong understanding of the technology talent market and hiring landscape in India.

• Experience managing globally distributed teams across India and North America.

• Proven ability to build cross-functional partnerships across different geographic regions.

• Capable of managing communication and execution across various time zones.

• Strong background in modern software engineering practices and architecture.

• Familiarity with cloud technologies, preferably Microsoft Azure.

• Knowledge of enterprise platforms, databases, APIs, and scalable application design.

• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure modernization efforts.

• Experience leading AI, automation, machine learning, or generative AI initiatives.

• Ability to convert emerging technologies into measurable business value.

• Exceptional executive presence and stakeholder management capabilities.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to influence leaders at all organizational levels.

• In-depth expertise in Java, TypeScript, Node.js, SQL, and React.

• Background in software engineering and technical leadership.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field is required.

• Must be legally authorized to work in India at the time of application and throughout employment.

• Visa sponsorship and immigration sponsorship are not available unless expressly stated otherwise.

🏝️ Benefits

• Statutory benefits required under applicable Indian law.

• Paid time off and holidays.

• Health and wellness benefits (where offered).

• Additional company-sponsored programs, subject to eligibility.

• Performance-based incentives and other company-sponsored programs, where applicable.