CTO

About Us:

At apexanalytix, we're lifelong innovators! Since the date of our founding nearly four decades ago we've been consistently growing, profitable, and delivering the best procure-to-pay solutions to the world. We're the perfect balance of established company and start-up. You will find a unique home here.

And you'll recognize the names of our clients. Most of them are on The Global 2000. They trust us to give them the latest in controls, audit and analytics software every day. Industry analysts consistently rank us as a top supplier management solution, and you'll be helping build that reputation.

Read more about apexanalytix - https://www.apexanalytix.com/about/

apexanalytix is seeking an experienced Technology Leader to serve as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The CTO will set the strategic technology direction for the organization and drive multiple product development teams responsible for new and existing customer-facing software and SaaS products. The CTO, reporting to the COO, will work in close collaboration with fellow executive staff members, Product Development and Marketing to drive the organization's client facing products towards continued growth.

The CTO will lead a multi-national team of 65+ staff, including Software Engineering, Technical Product Management, Quality Assurance, Project Management, and Documentation. Past experience in a mixed environment of on-premise and Cloud based products is highly valued.

• Leverages their subject matter expertise in Microsoft stack for development and other product landscape, solutions, and strategy to address customer's needs. Partners with internal industry experts (e.g., with industry-solutions executives) to strengthen understanding of the industry. Leverages a deep understanding of their customers to drive and create deep impact, share knowledge with virtual team, and promote customer business perspectives.
• Acts as the voice of the customer and internal advocate by providing insights, feedback, and challenges from the customer to internal teams (e.g., product groups, engineers) across all levels of the organization. Drives action to ensure that internal teams understand and respond to insights. Escalates pressing issues for customers to apexanalytix internal stakeholders to facilitate the appropriate solutions and capabilities for the customer.

• Leads technical strategic planning to maximize business goals by development and deployment of all products and services.
• Leads creation of software solutions vision for the business going forward
• Defines development standards, organization, and methodologies for the company, and coordinates architecture and plans across multiple product lines.
• Collaborates closely with the business and customer segments to understand market requirements and help translate strategic and product priorities into technology roadmap plans.
• Manages prioritization of strategic objectives with operational, client facing support for multiple teams and products.
• Mentors and oversees personnel development plans for all technical staff.
• Provides clear forecasts, and technical roadmaps to the executive team and executes against those plans.
• Works within a strongly collaborative environment, negotiates challenges, identifies risks, and provide associated mitigation strategies.
• Provides budget planning, resource allocation and capital spend within the organization's overall business requirements.
• Ability to roll up their sleeves, understand code and provide guidance to the development organization to solve complex problems.

• 10 + years leadership experience in software development, including planning, build, launch, and support of multi-release complex software products sold commercially to external clients.
• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft development stack, including but not limited to C#, .NET, Visual Studio, TFS.
• Solid understanding across all latest technologies impacting software development.
• Experience with delivery of client facing products using Cloud services, particularly Microsoft Azure, with AWS or Google Cloud Platform suitable.
• Experience with Agile development processes, particularly SCRUM methodology.
• Experience in leading multi-national development organizations including in-house staff, contract positions located on-shore, off-shore and hybrid.
• Strong communication skills.
• Experience in managing a budget matching the organization's strategic business goals and timelines with product deliverables.
• Experience in customer-centric product design. Contextual Inquiry or other customer-focused development process experience a strong plus.
• Undergraduate degree or graduate degree in computer science or another technical field, and/or a graduate business degree a strong plus but not required.

At apexanalytix we know that our associates are the reason behind our successes. We truly value you as an associate and part of our professional family. Our goal is to offer the very best benefits possible to you and your loved ones. When it comes to benefits, whether for yourself or your family the most important aspect is choice. And we get that. apexanalytix offers competitive benefits for the countries that we serve, in addition to our BeWell@apex initiative that encourages employees' growth in six key wellness areas: Emotional, Physical, Community, Financial, Social, and Intelligence."

With resources such as a strong Mentor Program, Internal Training Portal, plus Education, Tuition, and Certification Assistance, we provide tools for our associates to grow and develop.