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?
If you are hiring a technology director / CTO (gerente de tecnología), the mandate is technology strategy: architecture, engineering capacity and business alignment — not a squad tech lead. Use this profile to write the job descriptor, separate CTO from CIO, and decide whether the active market is enough or you need headhunting.
How critical is this role
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
Ask for an architecture decision with trade-offs (cost, risk, time-to-market) and a case of leading leaders: how they prioritised the portfolio, what they stopped, and what the team shipped. A modern stack on a CV is not executive judgment.
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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does a CTO do?
- Sets the tech roadmap, standards and team capacity to sustain product and operations. Reports to CEO/board; does not only run one sprint.
- CTO vs tech lead vs CIO?
- A tech lead owns a squad and delivery. A CTO leads leaders and the business technology bet. A CIO stresses internal information systems and IT ops. They overlap in mid-size firms — the descriptor must say which.
- Typical hiring mistake?
- Promoting the best developer, hiring a «hands-on» who never owned a portfolio, or demanding a CTO+CIO+PO unicorn. Failure shows up as no credible roadmap and poor EM retention.
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