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It develops and sells our products, IASO and OpenHEXA, delivers custom software projects for Global Health partners, and runs the infrastructure on which Bluesquare and its clients rely, from cloud environments to national, locally hosted deployments.\nThe team currently counts 24 people: an OpenHEXA team (4), an IASO team (around 10), an operations team (2), a product, marketing and sales team (2), and engineers working on custom projects.\nThe Chief Technology Officer (CTO) leads the Tech Team and owns Bluesquare's technology vision. The role is accountable for the product strategy and roadmap, the commercial development of our SaaS offering, the performance and profitability of the product and engineering teams, the quality and security of everything we build and host, and the adoption of artificial intelligence in the way we develop software.\nThe CTO is a member of the Executive Committee and reports to the CEO. The CTO works closely with the Directors of the Service Business Unit (SBU), who rely on our products and engineering capacity to deliver country programs, and represents Bluesquare as a technology actor in the global health community.\nLocation: Brussels (preferred).\nStart date: As soon as possible.\nReporting line: CEO.\nRole and responsibilities\n1. Engineering Leadership & Development Practices\nLead and develop the product and development teams working on IASO and OpenHEXA, as well as the teams dedicated to custom projects such as GAPS, supporting polio financing.\n\nEnsure that teams have the right skills, structure and resources, and that responsibilities and accountability are clear.\n\nIn coordination with HR and team leads, anticipate recruitment needs, support performance management and career development, and identify skills development priorities.\n\nSet and monitor development practices and quality standards: code review, testing, CI/CD, documentation, release management and reliability.\n\nLead the integration of artificial intelligence into how we build software (AI-assisted development, agents, new ways of working) and help teams adapt their practices and skills accordingly.\n\nOrganize technology watch and bring relevant innovations into our products and practices.\n\n2. Product Strategy & SaaS Development\nLead the definition of Bluesquare's future products and the evolution of IASO and OpenHEXA, grounded in the needs of ministries of health, funders and implementing partners.\n\nDrive the SaaS go-to-market approach: positioning, pricing and packaging, and support to sales and partnerships.\n\nArbitrate the product roadmaps between product development, client-specific requests and technical investment.\n\nTrack product adoption, client satisfaction and the economics of each product line, with the goal of making each product financially sustainable.\n\n3. Executive & Strategic Leadership\nAs part of Bluesquare's executive management team, contribute to setting and executing the company's strategic vision and priorities, bringing a technology and product perspective to strategic, organizational and investment decisions.\n\nDefine and own Bluesquare's technology vision and translate it into clear priorities, plans and objectives for the Tech Team.\n\nOwn the Tech Team's P&L and ensure the profitability of the tech team: review financial results, arbitrate investment and resourcing decisions, and report to the Executive Committee.\n\nWith the CFO, monitor the key drivers of profitability (billable utilization, project margins, SaaS and hosting revenues, infrastructure and tooling costs) and take corrective action when needed.\n\nEnsure strong alignment between products, engineering capacity and the needs of the SBU and its country programs.\n\n4. Global Health Representation & Partnerships\nRepresent Bluesquare as a technology actor in global health forums, communities of practice and technical working groups.\n\nBuild and maintain technical relationships with funders and partners, including the Gates Foundation, and with the stakeholders of our custom projects.\n\nOver time, take on the leadership of a Bluesquare practice in a technical domain, such as interoperability, custom software development or AI for global health.\n\n5. Infrastructure, Internal Systems & Automation\nOversee Bluesquare's hosting infrastructure, on AWS as well as on local and national instances, ensuring availability, scalability and cost control.\n\nEnsure the maintenance of integrations between internal tools, including our ERP and our websites.\n\nContribute to the automation of Bluesquare's internal processes, in a management and oversight role, working with the CFO and operations teams.\n\n6. Security & Compliance\nHold overall accountability for information security, data protection and compliance across our products, infrastructure and internal systems.\n\nManage Bluesquare's security and compliance lead, and ensure that policies, audits, certifications and incident response processes are in place and effective.\n\nEnsure that our products and hosting arrangements meet the data protection and data sovereignty requirements of our clients and the countries we work in.\n\nProfil e\nWe are looking for an experienced technology leader combining product vision, engineering credibility, people management skills and a genuine interest in global health.\nRequired\n10+ years of experience in software engineering, including significant experience managing engineering or product teams.\n\nPrior experience in a CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Engineering, Head of Product or similar technology leadership role.\n\nProven experience managing multiple team leads or managers, ideally across distributed teams.\n\nExperience building and operating software products, ideally in a SaaS model, from roadmap to adoption.\n\nSolid understanding of modern development practices and hands-on experience with AI-assisted software development.\n\nExperience with security and compliance topics (e.g., data protection, ISO 27001, GDPR).\n\nExperience with budget and P&L ownership, including accountability for the profitability of a team or business unit.\n\nExcellent written and spoken communication in English; French is a strong asset.\n\nTechnical environment\nOur stack is mainly Python and Django, hosted on AWS and on Kubernetes, with many deployments on local and national infrastructure. Familiarity with these technologies is a plus.\n\nWe do not expect mastery of every element of the stack: with today's AI tools, an experienced engineer can quickly become productive on unfamiliar technologies. Breadth, judgment and the ability to learn matter more.\n\nPreferred\nExperience in global health, international development or a related technology-for-development sector.\n\nExperience with digital health systems and standards (e.g., DHIS2, health information systems, FHIR, interoperability).\n\nExperience working with ministries of health, donors such as the Gates Foundation, global health organizations and NGOs.\n\nExperience with on-premise or government-hosted deployments in low-resource settings.\n\nExperience representing an organization in technical forums, working groups or conferences.\n\nExperience leading organizational change.\n\nSoft skills\nLeadership: Ability to structure, support and develop product and engineering teams.\n\nStrategic awareness: Capacity to connect technology choices to the company's strategy and to impact.\n\nProduct sense: Ability to understand user needs and turn them into products people adopt.\n\nPragmatism: Balances ambition with simplicity, reliability and cost.\n\nCuriosity: Keeps up with technology, especially AI, and turns it into concrete improvements.\n\nCollaboration: Strong cross-team coordination with other executives, the SBU and partners.\n\nClear communication: Ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders, from developers to funders.\n\nWhat we offer\nYou will work in an impact-first company at the crossroads between global health and technology, at an exciting time in this highly dynamic field.\n\nYou will join Bluesquare's executive management team and help shape the company's direction.\n\nYou will lead a team of 24 engineers, product and operations specialists building products used by ministries of health and global health organizations in more than 30 countries.\n\nYou will shape how a mission-driven technology company adopts AI in its products and its engineering practices.\n\nYou will work in collaboration with a wide variety of actors (ministries, donors, global health organizations, 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