Deputy Chief Technology Officer

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

📋 Description

• Act as the second-in-command to the CTO and represent the CTO when necessary.

• Propel the execution of enterprise technology priorities.

• Create and implement multi-year technology roadmaps, investment priorities, operating plans, and transformation initiatives.

• Offer executive leadership across global technology functions.

• Participate in business planning, board-level discussions, due diligence, and technology assessments for M&A.

• Represent the technology strategy and delivery to senior customers, partners, regulators, auditors, analysts, and investors.

• Oversee engineering effectiveness and the maturity of the software development lifecycle across modern software practices.

• Serve as the senior architectural authority for enterprise, solution, application, cloud, security, data, integration, and AI architecture.

• Guide the evolution of large-scale, multi-tenant, cloud-native, and hybrid platforms.

• Lead responsible adoption of generative and agentic AI, machine learning, MLOps/LLMOps, retrieval architectures, evaluation, security, and governance.

• Own the strategy for enterprise data and analytics.

• Define and implement the cloud and platform strategy across public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

• Provide executive oversight for CloudOps, DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, automation, observability, incident management, and service reliability.

• Drive enhancements in availability, performance, scalability, recovery, engineering productivity, and operational efficiency.

• Integrate security and privacy into architecture, engineering, cloud operations, identity and access management, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and incident response.

• Ensure compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other relevant regulatory requirements.

• Supervise engineering governance, validation, software quality, technical risk, and audit support.

• Lead and develop a globally distributed technology organization spanning North America, the UK and Europe, APAC, and India.

• Align engineering, architecture, AI, data, analytics, cloud, security, UX/UI, validation, and low-code capabilities with shared priorities.

• Collaborate with Product, Commercial, Professional Services, Customer Support, Finance, Legal, and Compliance teams.

• Engage in strategic customer conversations, escalations, technology reviews, and industry forums.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• A minimum of 15 years of progressive technology leadership experience.

• At least 10 years of experience leading global engineering or technology organizations.

• Proven experience managing large, distributed teams and senior leaders across North America, Europe/UK, APAC, and India.

• Broad accountability across software engineering, architecture, cloud/platform operations, cybersecurity, AI, data/analytics, quality, and technology operations.

• Extensive experience in designing, modernizing, and operating enterprise software platforms in highly regulated environments.

• In-depth experience in healthcare, laboratory informatics, diagnostics, life sciences, public health, or the scientific laboratory market.

• Strong executive presence and communication skills appropriate for interaction with customers, boards, partners, regulators, auditors, analysts, and investors.

• Experience with enterprise and solution architecture, including cloud-native, hybrid, distributed, event-driven, microservices, domain-driven, and multi-tenant SaaS patterns.

• Familiarity with Agile at scale, DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, SRE, Kubernetes, automation, observability, and performance engineering.

• Knowledge of generative AI, LLMs, agentic systems, RAG/GraphRAG, knowledge graphs, vector databases, MLOps/LLMOps, AI evaluation, governance, and security.

• Experience with enterprise data platforms, transactional databases, data modeling, integration, analytics, and business intelligence.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure and related data/AI services is highly regarded.

• Working knowledge of HL7, FHIR, ASTM, LOINC, SNOMED, and ICD.

• Ability to work primarily in an office or remote environment, involving prolonged sitting and computer use.

• Capability to lift up to 10 pounds with assistance.

• Compliance with site-specific health and safety requirements while traveling.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health and wellness benefits.

• 401(k) Savings Plan.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plans.

• Paid time off.

• Parental leave.

• Tuition assistance.

• Up to 50% domestic and international travel may be required.