Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Job Description – Chief Technology Officer

Connected Freight Pte Ltd is a fast-growing digital company expanding rapidly as a result of continued success is now seeking an experienced CTO to join the high-calibre, dynamic team.

Based in Singapore, this hands-on role will see you act as part of the 4-member senior management team and take full responsibility for all aspects of tech development. The role is autonomous in nature and candidates must be comfortable working within an environment that is both dynamic and ever changing.

To succeed in this role as CTO the individual need to bring strong design and architecture fundamentals and have completed full SDLC of both web and mobile application to be able to advise and provide innovative solutions to the business. The job holder should also be natural with people, stakeholder management to work with global stakeholders in Singapore and Europe in offering insights to industry best practices in order to bring the technical team and applications to the next level.

Scope & Deliverables

Leading, coaching, and managing a distributed software team with locations locally

Managing application software development and architecture of complete solutions around high quality portable instruments for non-destructive testing (NDT)

Ensure compliance with project delivery and IT compliance frameworks

Implementation of Information Risk Management and Data Privacy Standards

Collaborate and managing external business partners, software providers and external vendors

Point of contact for technical guidance and support in the complete range of application software development including UX/UI, iOS/Android apps, Web applications, Cloud Data Storage/Computing, QA/Testing, Version control and Release management

Planning, coordination and resource management of the complete software team according to priorities and competences

Close collaboration with cross-functional teams in both hardware and embedded software teams alongside Product Management

The Tech Lead will be leading all coding and backend development of the Connected Freight interfaces as per direction of the Product and Strategy Manager and CEO

The candidate will lead the daily stand-ups with development team from features ideation to go live

Thorough understanding of user stories and feature requests and turning them into concrete, actionable tasks for individual developers

Maintain current knowledge of technology landscape and developments

Track, analyse and monitor technology performance metrics

Oversee all system design and changes in system architecture

Allocating tasks and managing workload of the dev team, provide transparency and clear accountability of progress to the CEO and Product & Strategy Manager

Ensure agile working style within the dev team and products team

Recruitment and assessment of new dev team members

Performance review and people management of the dev team

Requirements

• University degree in Computer Science or equivalent (PhD / M. Sc.)

• A total of more than eight years of experience with minimum five years' experience in leading distributed teams globally, with global management skills

• Proficient in JavaScript (Angular or React) and PHP (Laravel Framework)

• Understanding of Data Science Technologies, Data Modelling and Algorithms (Traveling Salesman Problem)

• Well versed with strong architectural and design thinking, system partitioning, scaling, industry best methods/algorithms, code re-use, and strong priority and emphasis in documentation, AGILE, CI/CD, automated and manual (unit and regression) testing

• At least 7 years of experience of being a CTO/ Tech Lead in digital SaaS companies, logistics industry preferred

• Knowledge of existing and emerging technologies

• Experience in leading Data science/ optimization-based technologies

• Commercial acumen and ability to quickly grasp commercial objectives and requirements

• Highly logical and superior critical-thinking and problem-solving skills

• Experience managing and leading teams in an Agile/Scrum development process

• Proven track record in building effective and positive workplace culture

• Proven track record in project management

• Experience in managing multiple complex projects simultaneously

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills

• Experience working with high-availability, high-performance, scalable enterprise level systems

• Job type: Direct Placement Reference: 19-00031