Field CTO

Roles and Responsibilities

• Understand and articulate AHEAD's value and vision to our clients, partners, and teammates
• Assist strategic sales teams in qualifying sales opportunities and aligning AHEAD's portfolio to client technical challenges, decision making process and investment approaches
• Drive account team efforts to become more strategic within current clients
• Assist account teams with identifying high-value, strategic activities and relationship building in support of acquiring new strategic clients
• Work with our partner ecosystem to demonstrate thought leadership and solution alignment
• Facilitate Executive and Visioning Experiences with clients and partners
• Qualify and help position consulting engagements and multi-practice programs and services
• Provide coaching and mentoring to team resources to enhance their solution knowledge, technical acumen, and presales skill sets
• Prioritize opportunities and efforts assigned to the geography based on maximizing total impact on team productivity and profit
• Provide feedback to improve internal efficiencies
• Collaborate with Core Practice areas to provide input and suggestions for new solutions, offerings, and innovation roadmap
• Present regularly at AHEAD events, user groups, technical and industry conferences, and forums
• Support and participate in technical and Financial Services industry communities
• Attend strategic war room sessions to align with "big deal" and strategic account planning to provide an additional perspective

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent
• Master's degree in technical domain or MBA is preferred
• 15+ years Presales or IT Leadership experience is required
• Previous practical experience leading digital transformation efforts in Financial Services is preferred
• Strong industry expertise in banking, capital markets, payments is a plus
• Extensive knowledge/experience in multiple areas across: Digital Strategy, DevOps, Cloud, Data/AI, Infrastructure, Service Management, Automation, Security, and IT Operations
• Professional communication, presentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Experience working as a technical lead in a sales campaign
• Tenaciously customer-focused and outcome-driven
• Ability to work under critical conditions and influence others to achieve results
• Strong interpersonal skills with excellent presentation skills
• Must be independent, self-motivated, a self-starter and possess a good working attitude
• Able to work well within a team and partner environment
• Demonstrated social and self-awareness
• Advanced content creation and demonstrated thought leadership skills are a plus
• Existing relationships and personal brand in the geography aligned to the position are desirable and considered valuable