Summary: Senior executive leading technology strategy, ensuring IT aligns with business goals, operational efficiency, security, and innovation through digital transformation and team leadership. Highlights: 1. Define and deliver organization’s technology strategy 2. Drive digital transformation and innovation initiatives 3. Build, mentor, and retain high-performing IT teams **Chief Information Officer (CIO) — Job Description** **Role summary** Senior executive responsible for defining and delivering the organization’s technology strategy, ensuring IT enables business goals, operational efficiency, security, and innovation. **Key responsibilities:** * Technology strategy: Develop and execute an enterprise technology roadmap that aligns IT investments with business strategy, scalability, and competitive advantage. * IT governance \& policy: Establish IT governance, standards, architecture principles, and lifecycle policies for software, infrastructure, data, and cloud. * Enterprise architecture: Oversee design and evolution of application, data, integration, and infrastructure architecture to ensure reliability, performance, and maintainability. * Cybersecurity \& risk management: Partner with security leaders to ensure robust information security, identity/access management, data protection, incident response, and regulatory compliance. * IT operations \& service delivery: Ensure high availability, capacity planning, disaster recovery/business continuity, and service\-level management for internal and customer\-facing systems. * Digital transformation \& innovation: Drive digital initiatives, process automation, modernization (cloud migration, APIs, microservices), and adoption of emerging technologies (AI/ML, analytics) to create business value. * Data strategy \& analytics: Lead data governance, data quality, analytics, BI, and enablement of data\-driven decision\-making across the enterprise. * Vendor \& contract management: Oversee sourcing strategy, vendor selection, contract negotiation, vendor performance, and third‑party risk for SaaS, cloud, and managed services. * Budgeting \& cost management: Manage IT budget, capital planning, cost optimization (e.g., cloud spend), and ROI for technology investments. * Team leadership \& capability building: Build, mentor, and retain high\-performing IT teams (engineering, operations, security, data) and promote DevOps/Agile practices. * Stakeholder engagement: Act as strategic partner to the CEO, business unit leaders, CFO, and board; translate business needs into technical solutions and communicate technology risks/opportunities. * Compliance \& regulatory liaison: Ensure IT meets legal, regulatory, and industry\-specific compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS) as applicable. \* **Required qualifications \& experiences:** * Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or related field; advanced degree (MBA, MSc) preferred. * 10\+ years in IT leadership with progressive responsibility; executive\-level experience preferred for large organizations. * Proven track record delivering cloud migrations, large\-scale systems, digital transformation, and enterprise architecture. * Strong knowledge of cybersecurity, data management, software development lifecycle, and modern infrastructure (cloud platforms, containers, CI/CD). * Experience managing multi\-million\-dollar budgets and vendor ecosystems. * Excellent strategic thinking, communication, stakeholder management, and change leadership skills. Job Types: Full\-time, Permanent Pay: QAR309\.80 \- QAR1,231\.29 per hour Work Location: In person