Chief Technology Officer

3 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Aes Global Full time

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Cape Town, Western Cape (On-site) Overview An established, high-volume e-commerce company is seeking a visionary Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead its next stage of growth and transformation. After more than a decade of strong performance, the business is ready to evolve its home‑grown technology into a modern, scalable, and AI‑first architecture. The Role As CTO, you'll play a strategic and hands‑on leadership role—balancing vision, architecture, and execution. You'll assess legacy systems, build new scalable platforms, and lead cross‑functional teams across engineering, data, and DevOps. You'll also partner closely with the executive team to align technology with commercial goals and ensure the business continues to deliver speed, stability, and customer delight at scale. Key Focus Areas Technology & Platform Strategy Define and execute a forward‑looking, AI‑first technology roadmap. Lead replatforming efforts, transforming legacy systems into modular, API‑driven environments. Oversee architecture and development across front‑end, back‑end, data, and infrastructure. Customer & Product Experience Champion world‑class UX / UI across web and mobile platforms. Drive initiatives such as personalisation, recommendation engines, and intelligent search. Foster a culture of experimentation, A/B testing, and conversion optimisation. Infrastructure, Security & Scalability Architect secure, scalable, and resilient systems to support rapid growth. Oversee cloud strategy, performance monitoring, and deployment pipelines. Integrate critical enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, payments, WMS, etc.) for operational excellence. Data, AI & Analytics Establish an organisation‑wide data strategy, from pipelines to real‑time dashboards. Lead initiatives in predictive modelling, AI‑driven personalisation, and data intelligence. Promote data literacy and empower teams with self‑serve analytics. Key Requirements BSc / MSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. 10+ years of technical experience, including 5+ years in senior leadership. Proven success scaling complex, high‑traffic platforms (ideally e‑commerce or digital). Deep technical expertise in: Architecture: Cloud platforms, microservices, event‑driven systems, containerisation. Front‑End: React, React Native. Back‑End: PHP, Laravel. Data: MySQL, Redis, BigQuery, Snowflake, Power BI, Tableau. DevOps: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, AWS/GCP/Azure. Strong commercial understanding — comfortable making build vs buy vs partner decisions. Excellent people leadership and mentorship experience across engineering teams. What Success Looks Like Highly scalable, resilient systems with exceptional uptime and performance. AI and data intelligence driving real‑time insights and customer engagement. Clear alignment between technology strategy and business growth objectives. A high‑performance engineering culture built on speed, learning, and innovation. Why Apply This is a rare opportunity to lead the end‑to‑end technology transformation of a household-name digital brand. You'll set the pace for innovation, modernisation, and scale—directly shaping the company's technology and growth trajectory for the decade ahead. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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