Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Reports to: President
Location: Remote, U.S.*
Type: Full-Time, Exempt
Compensation: Commensurate with experience
Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package including generous PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life, HSA/FSA accounts, and 401(k) with 4% employer match.

About the Role

Through a combination of internal development and acquisitions, Sentact has grown to offer a broad, high-value product portfolio - much of it designed to serve distinct clinical operations needs: rounding, safety huddles, event reporting, grievance management, analytics and benchmarking. That breadth is a competitive strength, but opportunity exists to further combine these assets for customers to gain additional benefits.

The CTO will be a member of the executive leadership team and be a key contributor and stakeholder in the company's overall strategy. Importantly, we are looking for an organized, practical, results-driven candidate that takes a hands-on approach, while being able to see the big picture and effectively communicate with the company's Board of Directors.

What You'll Do

High-level objectives include: the harmonization of the technology portfolio, deploying A.I. to improve efficiency, and the management of a short and long-term roadmap designed to bring differentiated product and analytics offerings to market.

Specifically, the role will own the technology and engineering strategy, architecture, and roadmap across Sentact's full product suite.

• Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing engineering, data, and A.I. organization; add talent and best practices where needed.
• Establish (or mature) engineering standards: cloud architecture, security, data governance, QA/testing, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery, and uptime/reliability practices appropriate for a healthcare SaaS company handling sensitive clinical and provider data.
• Lead build-vs-buy-vs-partner decisions, including evaluation of platform consolidation, legacy system migration/sunset, and selective use of third-party or acquired technology.
• Serve as a technical thought partner to the CEO and executive team on M&A technical due diligence, integration planning, and long-range platform strategy.
• Support information security, data privacy, and compliance posture (HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST, and similar frameworks relevant to healthcare data) in partnership with legal/compliance.
• Represent technology strategy externally with key health system clients, prospects, and at industry forums as needed.
• Manage technology budget, vendor relationships, and working with CFO, build the business case for platform and A.I. investment in a way the CEO and board will find credible.

What We're Looking For / Preferred Qualifications

• Experience. 10+ years of progressive technology leadership experience, including 4+ years as a CTO, VP Engineering, or equivalent senior technology executive, ideally in healthcare IT, health tech SaaS, or another data-intensive B2B software environment.
• Platform unification track record. Demonstrated, hands-on success consolidating or re-platforming a multi-product portfolio (through M&A integration, technical debt reduction, or platform unification) into a coherent architecture - not just greenfield product-building.
• AI fluency. Real, practical experience deploying AI/ML or generative AI into production products and/or internal operations, with a clear point of view on where AI creates genuine value versus hype, and how to govern it responsibly in a healthcare context.
• Product and commercial instinct. A track record of shipping products or analytics capabilities that created measurable competitive differentiation and drove revenue, retention, or win rate.
• Technical Requirements. Working knowledge of healthcare data, interoperability standards (e.g. HL7/FHIR), clinical workflows, and the compliance/regulatory environment (HIPAA, CMS conditions of participation, Joint Commission, etc.), React, Python, Tableau, Ruby on Rails, AWS, PHP, MySQL, Epic Clarity, and PostgreSQL.
• Security and compliance. Experience with security and compliance programs (SOC 2, HITRUST, HIPAA) for a SaaS company serving hospitals or health systems.
• Leadership / People Management. Proven ability to recruit, develop, and retain strong engineering and data talent, and to reset culture and standards where needed.
• Executive presence. A collaborative, low-ego operating style; comfort operating in a company backed by private equity, with the discipline and communication skills that entails; ability to translate technical strategy into a business case for non-technical executives and stakeholders.

Why This Role

This is a rare opportunity to take a well-established, trusted healthcare technology company - one already serving a large share of the country's leading health systems - and shape its next chapter as a unified, AI-enabled platform. You'll be a member of the executive team, have a genuine mandate for change, and the chance to build products that materially improve patient safety and quality at scale.

*Note: We are unable to employ applicants located in the State of Hawaii at this time.