CTO- Digital Transformation

Boston, MA

Job Summary:

Our prestigious higher education Client is looking for a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead, direct, plan, and manage Digital Transformation for their university. He/she will lead the design of the Cloud infrastructure, data management, and data governance for all school-wide systems. The CTO will Identify changes and trends in technology, and communicate impacts and consequences to the leaders in the University. The CTO will determine long-term, enterprise-wide information technology needs and contribute to setting the strategic direction of the Client's technology organization.

Responsibilities:

Key responsibilities of the CTO include:
• Digital Strategy and Digital Transformation leadership.
• rchitectural guidance.
• Process Management.
• Planning
• Innovation
• Staff Development

Competencies:
• track record of attracting, hiring, managing, and retaining top-quality staff and management.
• Highly skilled with AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud.
• Strong change management and leadership skills, plus the ability to implement new systems and redesign work processes.
• Financial and operational management experience.
• Demonstrated experience directing and managing people within a challenging environment
• bility to work exclusively through people to achieve shared objectives.
• Energy, tact, conviction, flexibility, and excellent communication skills, plus the other intangible attributes necessary to succeed in a complex, fast-moving, top-tier University.
• Strategic Agility: can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future-oriented; can articulate a vision of the future state of enterprise systems in a way that engages business partners and IT staff; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Business Acumen: knowledgeable about current and possible future policies, practices, trends, technology and information affecting his/her business and organization; understands or can quickly learn the key activities, risks, and performance objectives of the business activities of the School.
• Decision Quality: makes good decisions based on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment; is sought out by others for advice and solutions; includes others in the process of defining the problem and identifying the solution.
• Process Management and Prioritization: knows how to organize people and activities to get work done; understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient work flow; knows how and what to measure; can see opportunities for synergy and integration where others may not; can simplify complex processes and achieve results efficiently.
• Planning and Project Management: accurately scopes out the length and difficulty of tasks and projects; breaks down work into process steps; develops schedules and task/people assignments; anticipates and adjusts for problems and roadblocks; measures performance and evaluates results; engages stakeholders and staff in a collaborative process of planning and execution.
• Customer Focus: dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of customers; solicits first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Peer Relationships: can quickly find common ground and solve problems for the good of all; is seen as a collaborator and a team player; easily secures trust and support of peers