Field CTO

Role overview Serve as a senior technology advisor to enterprise executives, shaping multi-year modernization strategy and connecting technical direction to measurable business outcomes. The role also represents technology perspectives in external forums, guides partner strategy, and influences pursuit and delivery teams through a matrix rather than direct reporting lines.

Responsibilities - Advise CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and transformation leaders on technology vision, investment choices, risk, modernization, and the governance needed to realize business value. - Build executive relationships and help clients prioritize technical debt reduction and transformation based on outcomes, adoption needs, and operating-model implications. - Represent the practice at executive briefings, conferences, partner events, and analyst discussions; publish perspectives that clarify market direction. - Build senior relationships across platform and technology partners, shape joint solutions, and support partner-influenced opportunities. - Set technical direction and quality standards across pursuit, engineering, delivery, and partner teams; coach senior architects and help resolve strategic escalations. - Track emerging technology, including generative AI and agentic systems, and translate it into practical recommendations and phased adoption plans.

Requirements - Experience as a Field CTO, Chief Architect, Distinguished Architect, or comparable external-facing technology leader in enterprise transformation. - Significant enterprise technology leadership and C-suite advisory experience, including peer-level relationships with senior technology and transformation executives. - A demonstrated external industry voice through presentations, published perspectives, briefings, podcasts, analyst engagement, or similar forums. - Deep expertise in Azure architecture, including enterprise adoption, governance, security, integration, and modernization. - Ability to set direction across applications, cloud platforms, and data and AI, including governance and operating-model considerations. - Executive-level understanding of AI strategy, responsible adoption, security, and data foundations, plus experience explaining how Microsoft technologies work in mixed-vendor environments. - Strong communication, matrix leadership, and partner collaboration skills; able to influence large pursuits through technology strategy.

Nice to have - Experience with AWS, Google Cloud, regulated enterprises, or global organizations. - Prior CTO, CIO, VP of Engineering, or equivalent experience; experience with board-level or analyst forums is also useful. - A record of developing offerings, accelerators, or reusable intellectual property and mentoring senior technical leaders.

Benefits and work setup Travel of up to 25% may be required. Applicants must already have work authorization; visa sponsorship is unavailable.