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# Portfolio Chief Technology Officer

- **Company:** The Carlyle Group
- **Location:** Paris, France
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Engineering, Technical Debt, Data Management
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c282801e403ac999

## About the Role

* At least 15 years of senior technology leadership (CTO / VP Engineering / equivalent), ideally scaling B2B SaaS businesses in the mid-market.

 * Track record delivering measurable value in a private-equity, portfolio or operating-partner context is preferred.

 * Deep, current expertise across modern SaaS architecture, cloud, data platforms, applied AI, and AI within the SDLC process.

 * Demonstrated ability to deliver through partners and lean teams - and comfort operating with a leveraged operating model.

Comfortable operating across multiple companies, geographies and cultures within a European B2B context.
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Competencies and Attributes

 * Investor mindset - can translate technology into P&L, valuation and investor outcomes.

 * Influence without authority; credible with founders, CEOs, deal teams and boards alike.

 * A strong, active external network and the instinct to build and leverage relationships.

 * Bias to action, comfort with ambiguity, and a collaborative fit within a team of functional experts.

 * Aspires to breadth over depth, relishes novel problems.

 * Comfortable operating through others, influencing decision makers, keeping executors honest.

 * Investor mindset. Maturity to discern what matters to create value, and discipline to focus on it, ignoring the noise.

 * Commercial. Articulates incisively impact achieved, can talk concisely to financial professionals.

Ability to work in other European languages (beyond English) preferred.
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## Description

* Value creation. Define and drive technology value-creation agendas across portfolio companies - product architecture, scalability, technical debt, cloud and cost efficiency, security, data and AI enablement.

 * Diligence & assessment. Support technical diligence on new investments; assess engineering organisations, tech stacks, and product readiness, and translate findings into actionable value creation plans.

 * Partner network. Build, curate and manage a network of trusted third-party technology partners - implementation firms, specialist advisors, fractional leaders and vendors - to deliver execution at portfolio companies without carrying large internal headcount.

 * Leadership & talent. Coach and mentor portfolio-company CTOs and engineering leaders; help assess, recruit and upgrade technology leadership where needed.

 * Standards & sharing. Establish reusable playbooks, benchmarks and best practices; drive cross-portfolio knowledge sharing