Chief Technology Officer

Nexigen is seeking a Chief Technology Officer to own the technical direction, delivery discipline, and long-term coherence of the company's platform. This role assumes that automation and cybersecurity are foundational infrastructure, inseparable from reliability, scale, and trust.

The CTO is responsible for ensuring that Nexigen's architecture, processes, and people mature together. This includes designing systems where automation governs lifecycle operations; developing technical leaders and delivery capacity; establishing repeatable processes; and advising customers at an executive level through structured vCTO engagement. The CTO will also be responsible for ensuring alignment to Nexigen's technical policies from a compliance standpoint.

This is a senior, hands-on leadership role for someone who can operate simultaneously as architect, executive advisor, organizational builder, and external technical authority.

Core Responsibilities

Technology Strategy, Architecture & Automation

• Define and execute Nexigen's technical strategy across infrastructure, cloud, security, and automation with Nexigen technical team.
• Establish automation as a first-order design principle, governing identity, security response, monitoring, remediation, backup, and change management.
• Own architectural standards that integrate with security team leveraging security controls, automation, observability, and resilience.
• Ensure systems are designed for repeatability, auditability, and controlled evolution.
• Translate emerging technologies into offerings that are operationally sustainable and commercially defensible.

Delivery Leadership & Execution

• Client facing, authority working on revenue generation problems and capabilities.
• Lead the Solution Architecture Group and implementation specialists across Microsoft, networking, security, firewall, cloud, and systems initiatives.
• Oversee system moves, adds, changes, and transformation projects with automation embedded throughout the lifecycle.
• Ensure work is properly scoped, architected, documented, and executed.
• Maintain disciplined standards for diagrams, runbooks, configuration baselines, and handoffs.
• Participate in technical policy design and implementation, ensuring Nexigen maintains the highest degree of compliance for our customers.

Resource Development & Organizational Maturity

• Build and develop technical leadership capacity across architecture and implementation teams.
• Identify skill gaps and create structured development paths for engineers and architects.
• Establish role clarity, expectations, and accountability within technical teams.
• Mentor senior staff and actively develop successors for critical roles.
• Ensure Nexigen's technical bench scales with business growth.
• Help educate internal teams with technology and tooling gaps

Process Development & Operational Rigor

• Design and continuously refine technical and delivery processes that reduce friction and failure.
• Establish repeatable frameworks for:

o Architecture review and approval

o Automation design and governance

o Security and technical risk assessment

o Change management and escalation

o Post-implementation validation

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Pulled from the full job description

• Referral program
• Professional development assistance
• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance, * 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Vision insurance