Chief Technology Officer

CTO
Direct Hire
Location Pittsburgh PA
Compensation (Comensurate with skill level)

Our client is seeking an exceptional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to drive our next growth phase.
As CTO, you will operate as both a business strategist and technology executive, responsible for scaling our cloud-native, AI-enabled Operations IQ platform while ensuring security, reliability, and compliance in highly regulated healthcare environments.
This role is central to the Company's evolution into a real-time, intelligence-driven healthcare operations platform-leveraging advanced data integration, analytics, AI/ML, and decision-support capabilities to improve patient access, throughput, capacity, and operational performance across the largest health systems in the U.S. and globally.
The CTO owns enterprise technology vision, execution, governance, and investment strategy, leading a large-scale engineering, data, platform, and product organization while serving as a key voice externally with customers, partners, and the broader healthcare ecosystem.

What you'll do
The CTO will own the full technology agenda: platform architecture, engineering delivery, product-engineering alignment, and team development. Critically, this leader must operate as a player-coach - someone who builds today while strategizing for tomorrow. We are not looking for a visionary who manages from a distance.
Core Responsibilities

• Lead platform architecture decisions and manage ongoing re-platforming initiatives with rigour and pragmatism
• Close the product-engineering gap - bridging go-to-market priorities with technical execution
• Drive adoption of AI tooling and modern product development practices across the engineering organization
• Build bench strength: develop internal talent, shape team composition, and establish new ways of working
• Represent technology credibly in customer, investor, and board conversations
• Maintain business continuity while leading the organization through a meaningful transformation

What we look for

• Deep architectural expertise with a track record managing large-scale re-platforming programs.
• 15+ years of progressive technology leadership experience, including executive-level roles in enterprise SaaS, healthcare, or other regulated industries.
• Demonstrated experience that is strong on both technical rigour and engineering process.
• Experience leading a technology organization through a significant reset: new architecture, new ways of working, new team composition - while maintaining business continuity.
• Strong change management and communication skills.
• Has operated at the intersection of product and engineering and understands go-to-market capabilities and architecture requirements.
• Strong on AI and modern product development practices.
• Financial acumen with experience managing large budgets, vendors, and strategic partnerships.
• Record of translating customer and market needs into scalable, differentiated products.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information system or information technology or other related discipline. (required)
• Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, information system or information technology or other related discipline. (preferred)