Chief Technology Officer
First seen by Alion on Sep 5, 2026.
About the Role :
We are a leading global market research and insights firm embarking on an exciting transformation from a services-led organization to an AI-native SaaS product company.
We are looking for a visionary Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead this transformation by modernizing our engineering organization, building scalable AI-powered products, and driving our product strategy from concept to commercial success.
This is a unique opportunity to lead a well-funded product transformation within an established business, working directly with executive leadership to shape the company's technology future.
Key Responsibilities :
- Define and lead the overall technology vision, architecture, and engineering strategy.
- Build and scale secure, cloud-native, AI-powered SaaS products.
- Transform the existing engineering organization into a high-performing product engineering team.
- Drive architecture decisions across cloud infrastructure, APIs, data platforms, AI/ML, security, and scalability.
- Partner closely with the CEO and leadership team to align technology with business strategy and product roadmap.
- Recruit, mentor, and develop world-class engineering leaders and technical talent.
- Establish engineering best practices for product delivery, DevOps, quality, security, and operational excellence.
- Lead AI adoption across the product lifecycle, including LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), agentic workflows, and automation.
- Deliver high-quality products that create measurable business value and accelerate SaaS growth.
Required Experience :
- 10+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise B2B SaaS products.
- Proven experience leading engineering organizations of 25+ engineers.
- Strong background in cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML technologies, including Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, vector databases, and AI-driven product development.
- Experience driving engineering transformation and scaling high-performing product teams.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, security, DevOps, CI/CD, and engineering best practices.
- Ability to balance technical excellence with business priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications :
- Previous experience as a CTO, VP Engineering, or Head of Engineering.
- Experience leading a services-to-product transformation.
- Background in market research, analytics, data platforms, or insights technology.
- Experience building AI-native SaaS platforms from concept through commercialization.
Skills
CTO, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Native Cloud, Cloud Infrastructure, LLM, RAG, Distributed Systems, Generative AI, DevOps, CI/CD Pipeline