Chief Technology Officer

Five Jars is looking for a Chief Technology Officer to manage the company’s technologies, engineers, IT support, and tech partners and conduct due diligence operations.

If you are an ambitious person ready to take on a new challenge and know how to manage and support software development teams, we have a great opportunity for you!

Day-to-day responsibilities

Responsibilities that candidates will have daily.

Strategy & Leadership (30%)

• Build a technological vision for the company for 1, 3, 5 years;
• Build Development/Support/QA team OKRs and strategy;
• Ensuring tech strategy is aligned with business targets;
• Build relationships with technology partners (like Platform.sh). Lead and oversee the certification process;
• Continuously research and build a roadmap for CMSs, frameworks, and technologies we use and will use;
• Verify all technological practices adhere to regulatory standards and compliance;
• Identify and implement innovative technologies that yield competitive advantage;
• Grow the technical culture in the company
• Be the product owner of the internal technical services, identify problems and create new technical decisions to solve it;
• Build a learning and education roadmap for the development team (overall and individually) to grow professionally (courses, new technologies, new approaches);
• Participate in performance reviews and help tech team members grow.

Pre-Sales (30%)

• Attend pre-sales meetings and perform clients interview for technical direction;
• Build architecture and estimates for new projects;
• Preparing proposals in collaboration with the sales team;
• Analyze the requirements and propose technical solutions;
• Estimate projects and provide estimate reviews;
• Present proposals to the client and represent the team from the technical standpoint;
• Hand over won projects to delivery teams and ensure that all findings and expectations of the pre-sales phase are captured and understood;
• Unify process of estimations;
• Improving the quality of project estimation (understanding competitors, analyzing previous results, improving tools);

Delivery (30%)

• Consult team and work closely on the architecture and approach with Tech Leads and Solutions Architect;
• Consult team and work closely on the strategy and roadmap of the QA team;
• Consult prospective and existing clients on technical solutions;
• Serve as a bridge between sales and delivery teams;
• Provide project delivery management and help in hiring proper people;
• Improving the projects’ quality (implementation of processes for technical mentoring, supervision, code review, etc.);
• Maintaining the price-quality resource balance (hiring talented juniors and helping them to grow, cooperating with the recruitment department to find high-experienced candidates for complex tasks);
• Reducing the price of the project by reusing our experience on other projects

Marketing (10%) – non-billable

• Build relationships and be an active technology community member (Drupal, WordPress, Symfony, etc.)
• Build relationships and be an active member of industry-specific communities (Tessitura, YMCA and etc.)
• Participate in marketing activities, like doing research, recording videos, and providing information for blog posts
• Represent the company from the technical standpoint on conferences and events

Professional skills.

Required professional skills for being successful with goals and responsibilities.

Hard skills

• Experience in a team lead, lead developer, or similar position that includes pre-sales, architecture, and technical delivery;
• Knowledge of PHP, Drupal, Symfony, or Laravel;
• Knowledge of JavaScript frameworks;
• Knowledge of DevOps tools and processes;
• Excellent English;
• Pre-sales/Sales experience.

Soft-skills

• Responsibility and leadership by example;
• Pro-activity and ability to find solutions to project challenges;
• Easy to communicate ;

As a plus:

• Open source contributions;
• Someone from the Drupal Ukraine Community or another country Drupal community;
• Speaking at events and conferences.

We Propose

• 100% remote work;
• Fair compensation;
• Benefits such as vacation, sick leave, a day off during official national holidays;
• Flexible schedule and 7-hour working day;
• Regular Friday Open Microphones about different tech things from other team members;
• Help with learning new things (courses, books, etc.);
• Support in participating in conferences;
• Warm and friendly working environment;
• Flexibility in making decisions, no micromanagement;
• Respect and support with all activities;
• Team building and other sorts of online/offline team activities.

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