Director de tecnología

Also searched as: CTO · Gerente de tecnología · Director de TI

Code 1330.3

This role has no official English translation yet; it is shown in Spanish.

What does a Director de tecnología do?

The technology director / CTO (CTO o gerente de tecnología) sets technology strategy: architecture, engineering team and business alignment. Use this Job Dictionary profile to profile tech leadership as distinct from a squad tech lead.

How critical is this role

Critical roleReference time to hire: 75140 days

Its vacancy stalls revenue or decisions immediately.

The CTO holds product architecture, build budget and technical vendors. The vacancy does not shut systems down: it freezes the roadmap and each squad starts solving on its own.

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Essential skills

Knowledge

  • CI Continuous Integration
  • Cloud Computing
  • Cloud providers (SaaS)
  • Monitoreo y evaluación continua de los resultados de las decisiones
  • Normativas y estándares de calidad en atención médica
  • Software Development Lifecycle SDLC
  • Software code repositories
  • Technical stack
  • Windows
  • systems development life-cycle
  • product comprehension
  • communication
  • iterative development
  • cost management
  • Agile project management
  • ICT project management
  • ICT infrastructure
  • Agile development
  • ICT project management methodologies
  • Waterfall development
  • incremental development
  • software architecture models
  • engineering processes
  • computer programming
  • attack vectors

Skills and competences

  • administer ICT system
  • analyse ICT system
  • implement ICT coding conventions
  • implement ICT risk management
  • consult information sources
  • create solutions to problems
  • define technology strategy
  • deploy ICT systems
  • establish an ICT customer support process
  • manage human resources
  • implement ICT security policies
  • interact with users to gather requirements
  • optimise choice of ICT solution
  • carry out strategic research
  • use different communication channels
  • utilise decision support system

Transversal competences

  • coordinate technological activities
  • meet deadlines
  • manage schedule of tasks
  • manage budgets
  • think analytically
  • review development process of an organisation

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What to assess for this role

Assess technical vision, portfolio prioritisation and leadership of leaders.

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What does a CTO do?
Sets the tech roadmap, standards and team capacity to sustain product and operations.
CTO vs CIO?
CTO often owns product/engineering; CIO internal information systems and IT ops. They overlap in mid-size firms.
What to assess when hiring?
Architecture decisions with trade-offs and a track record of teams that ship.

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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences