Chief Technology Officer CTO - Financial Services

  • CERES Group
  • Boston, Massachusetts
  • 04/02/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications Management Software Engineer

Job Description

Internal Responsibilities
  • Technology Leadership: Oversee Software Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Architecture teams with full delivery accountability, while delegating day-to-day operations.
  • Platform Transformation: Lead the evolution of the technology and delivery infrastructure toward a cloud-native future state, emphasizing time-to-market, operational excellence, performance, resiliency, and security.
  • Portfolio Alignment: Drive a unified technology portfolio across Engineering, our front to back solution, SaaS, and other business units to ensure consistency and strategic alignment.
  • Architectural Vision: Define and champion a long range architecture that enables the company to deliver industry leading F2B solutions.
  • DevOps Enablement: Establish streamlined processes for continuous integration and deployment, accelerating code to production cycles through DevOps methodologies.
  • Financial Partnership: Collaborate with Finance and the Executive team to optimize technology spend, reduce client costs, and maximize customer success.
  • Security Oversight: Own and manage all software security concerns across the product suite, ensuring compliance and proactive risk mitigation.
  • AI Adoption: Spearhead the adoption of Artificial Intelligence across internal platforms and processes to enhance automation, decision making, and operational efficiency.
  • Growth Strategy: Drive the technology roadmap to support the company's ambition of becoming a billion dollar, technology led enterprise.
  • One: Partner with leadership to drive the collective strategy and vision to life. Promote collaboration within the different business lines. There will be a dual reporting line into CIO to help ensure alignment.
External Responsibilities
  • Client Engagement: Articulate the company's technology roadmap and philosophy to clients and prospects, linking innovation to business value.
  • Sales Enablement: Support the sales process by positioning the company's platform as the premier solution in the marketplace.
  • Market Intelligence: Contribute to business development by researching emerging technologies and market trends that influence technology and operations strategy.
  • Strategic Evaluation: Lead technical and organizational assessments of potential acquisitions and partnerships to support growth and innovation.
  • Brand Advocacy: Partner with Marketing to strengthen the company's digital presence and represent the brand at conferences, media events, and industry forums.
  • AI-Driven Client Solutions: Champion the use of Artificial Intelligence in client facing products and services to deliver differentiated value and competitive advantage.