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Proven experience holding a senior strategic technology leadership role (Divisional CTO, VP Solutions Architect) within a major global enterprise or a leading technology company. * Advisory Experience: Proven experience in a customer-facing technical role (e.g., Field CTO, Solutions Architect or Technical Advisory) from a major cloud provider or a major global technology institution * Deep Domain Authority: Deep expertise and thought leadership on the SDLC, AI, large-scale application security, and modern engineering practices. * Communication & Presence: Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex, multi-domain technical topics into strategic business implications for C-level audiences. * Cultural Fit & Velocity: A strong customer-centric mindset coupled with proven experience thriving in a fast-paced, high-growth technology or SaaS environment. Alignment with Sonar's culture of high standards, urgency, and efficiency. This role requires a global mindset and a willingness to be both externally facing and internally consultative. ## Description As a Field CTO, you will serve as a critical strategic conduit between Sonar's leadership and the world's most sophisticated enterprise technology leaders. Your focus will be a mix of strategic market evangelism and deep technical advisory. You will enhance Sonar's brand reputation and credibility as the definitive thought leader on the future of the SDLC in the age of AI, and your engagements with high-profile customers will directly inform and shape our product roadmap and GTM strategy, ensuring Sonar remains indispensable at the highest levels of global technology organizations. This is a global role that will require frequent travel to customer sites as well as to our many offices. What You Will Do Daily: * Executive Advisory & Engagement: Engage in deep, strategic advisory conversations with CTOs, Chief Architects, and VP-level technology leaders at our largest global accounts and partners, helping them rationalize the technical path to achieving measurable business impact and value with Sonar's platform. * External Thought Leadership & Brand Building: Serve as a highly credible, senior spokesperson for Sonar, representing the company at major industry conferences, webinars, and executive briefings, and engaging with press and industry analysts. * Executive Enablement & Partnerships: Leverage your professional network and credibility to facilitate strategic engagements for Sonar's leadership team, while simultaneously identifying, developing, and supporting strategic technology partnerships and acting as an Ecosystem Orchestrator for complex client initiatives. * Technical Content Creation: Lead the creation of high-impact technical content (e.g., whitepapers, reference architectures, advanced blog posts) that showcases Sonar's expertise across the SDLC * GTM Strategy & Product Feedback: Identify and analyze industry-specific trends and their impact on software development, co-creating industry solutions, and feeding executive insights directly into Product Management, GTM, and Architecture teams, helping shape product roadmaps. * Strategic Sales Support & Technical Validation: Support the most complex and strategic sales cycles by providing unmatched technical credibility and executive-level context. This includes delivering validated evidence and building tailored architectural walkthroughs and proofs-of-concept that demonstrate Sonar's behavior and value in the customer's real-world environment. * Internal Multiplier & Mentorship: Act as a technical multiplier across the organization, providing specialized mentorship and high-level architectural guidance to the TA and SE teams, and assist with top-tier technical recruiting., * Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!). * Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains. * We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai, India, Japan and Australia operate fully remotely. * We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're happy to help our team acquire them. * As the leader in our field, our products and services are as strong as our internal team members. * We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization. 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