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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Virtual Chief Information Officer (vCIO) - **Company:** Veterans Inc. - **Location:** Fort Wayne, IN, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $120,000.0 - $140,000.0 - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Computer Literacy, PCI Data Security Standards, Enterprise Software Applications - **Published:** July 15, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.jofdav.com/jobs/58836092-virtual-chief-information-officer-vcio ## About the Role * 10+ years in IT or cybersecurity, including meaningful time in a leadership, management, or strategic advisory capacity. * A technical foundation combined with business or management experience; comfortable advising executive stakeholders. * Demonstrated experience building technology roadmaps and leading IT strategy and budget planning. * Working knowledge of the compliance landscape (HIPAA, PCI DSS, CJIS, CMMC, GLBA) and its business impact. Preferred * Experience in an MSP or MSSP environment. * Familiarity with security platforms and managed services sufficient to advise on them, rather than to operate them. * Industry-specific experience relevant to assigned clients. ## Description Staffing Pros, a division of VETS Inc., has an opening with our client for a Virtual Chief Information Officer (vCIO) to support our client onsite in Fort Wayne, IN. The Virtual Chief Information Officer is the technical strategist who fills the technology leadership gap in a client's environment. The vCIO owns the client's technology strategy and roadmap, sets direction, and translates technical reality into business decisions leadership will act on. Where a client has no technology leadership of its own, the vCIO is that leadership. Where a client has some, the vCIO supplements it. Responsibilities * Own the technology roadmap. Accountable for the client's technology plan and the strategic direction it represents. * Set direction. Work with the client to decide where the environment should go and in what order, aligned to their business goals. * Translate risk. Turn technical findings into business terms: what is threatened, what it costs, and why it matters now. * Lead executive engagement. Serve as the client's trusted technology advisor at the leadership level and run the strategic conversation. * Guide investment and budget planning. Provide leadership during IT budget and technology investment planning. * Shape discovery into strategy. Incorporate the technical discovery and assessment produced by the delivery team into the roadmap as priorities and direction. * Surface strategic opportunity. Identify, through the roadmap, where technology can reduce cost, reduce risk, and advance the client's business, and shape those opportunities for the account team to act on. * Keep the picture current. Maintain an understanding of the client's environment and business so the roadmap stays relevant as both change. Competencies and qualities Communication and presence * Conveys complex technical matters in clear business terms, in writing and in person. * Articulate, composed, and credible in front of an executive team. * Holds a point of view; can tell a client a direction is wrong and be believed. Business acumen * Connects technology decisions to business outcomes, risk, and cost. * Leads budget and investment conversations at the leadership level. Technical literacy * Technically grounded enough to know what to ask, judge what comes back, and earn the trust of engineers. * Not required to be the deepest specialist; depth is supplied by the technical delivery function. Leadership and collaboration * Builds trusted-advisor relationships with client leadership. * Works collaboratively across the delivery team and promotes a sense of ownership over client outcomes. 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