138 Chief Technology Officer jobs in South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa – Full-time

At Sourcefin, we make purchase order funding and invoice discounting easy for South Africa’s forgotten SMMEs. As CTO, you’ll shape the technology strategy that powers this mission — leading innovation, scalability, and security across our fintech platforms. You’ll build and mentor a high-performing team while steering Sourcefin’s transformation into an AI-native, data-driven organisation.

• Define and execute Sourcefin’s technology vision and roadmap to align with business growth.
• Drive innovation in fintech solutions and ensure Sourcefin remains a digital lending leader.
• Oversee the design, architecture, and delivery of scalable, high-performance platforms.
• Identify emerging technologies to enhance Sourcefin’s competitive edge.

• Lead full product lifecycle from ideation to deployment, using Agile and DevSecOps practices.
• Ensure secure, modular, and efficient financial systems that integrate via APIs and cloud services.
• Oversee product scalability and reliability as Sourcefin expands across South Africa.

• Maintain compliance with POPIA, ISO27001, GDPR, and PCI-DSS standards.
• Implement cybersecurity frameworks and risk management policies.
• Oversee data governance, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.

• Build, mentor, and inspire the Tech & Data team — software engineers, analysts, and IT leads.
• Partner with EXCO and business leads to ensure alignment of technology and strategy.
• Communicate Sourcefin’s technology vision to stakeholders, investors, and regulators.

• Oversee IT infrastructure, cloud solutions, and enterprise architecture for scalability.
• Lead adoption of AI, data analytics, and automation to unlock efficiency.
• Drive continuous improvement in system reliability, data management, and user experience.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of technology leadership experience, ideally in fintech or financial services.
• Proven experience leading digital transformation and large-scale software development.
• Strong knowledge of cloud computing (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Background in cybersecurity, data governance, and compliance.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on approach to solving complex technical challenges.

Impact: Build the systems that empower South Africa’s forgotten SMMEs.

Autonomy: Lead with trust, ownership, and creative freedom.

Collaboration: Work closely with a high-performing EXCO and cross-functional teams.

Growth: Join a company investing heavily in technology, innovation, and people.

Care: Enjoy health and wellness benefits, including October Health and subsidised Olive & Plate meals.

Ready to shape the future of fintech and empower South Africa’s small businesses? Apply now and help us build technology that drives impact at scale.

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Johannesburg, South Africa – Full-time

We're looking for a visionary Chief Technology Officer to lead the next phase of Sourcefin's digital evolution. At Sourcefin, we make purchase order funding and invoice discounting easy for South Africa's forgotten SMMEs. As CTO, you'll shape the technology strategy that powers this mission — leading innovation, scalability, and security across our fintech platforms. You'll build and mentor a high-performing team while steering Sourcefin's transformation into an AI-native, data-driven organisation.

• Technology Strategy & Leadership: Define and execute Sourcefin's technology vision and roadmap to align with business growth. Drive innovation in fintech solutions and ensure Sourcefin remains a digital lending leader. Oversee the design, architecture, and delivery of scalable, high-performance platforms. Identify emerging technologies to enhance Sourcefin's competitive edge.
• Technical Execution & Product Development: Lead full product lifecycle from ideation to deployment, using Agile and DevSecOps practices. Ensure secure, modular, and efficient financial systems that integrate via APIs and cloud services. Oversee product scalability and reliability as Sourcefin expands across South Africa.
• Governance, Security & Compliance: Maintain compliance with POPIA, ISO27001, GDPR, and PCI-DSS standards. Implement cybersecurity frameworks and risk management policies. Oversee data governance, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
• Leadership & Collaboration: Build, mentor, and inspire the Tech & Data team — software engineers, analysts, and IT leads. Partner with EXCO and business leads to ensure alignment of technology and strategy. Communicate Sourcefin's technology vision to stakeholders, investors, and regulators.
• Infrastructure & Optimisation: Oversee IT infrastructure, cloud solutions, and enterprise architecture for scalability. Lead adoption of AI, data analytics, and automation to unlock efficiency. Drive continuous improvement in system reliability, data management, and user experience.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of technology leadership experience, ideally in fintech or financial services.
• Proven experience leading digital transformation and large-scale software development.
• Strong knowledge of cloud computing (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Background in cybersecurity, data governance, and compliance.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on approach to solving complex technical challenges.

• Impact: Build the systems that empower South Africa's forgotten SMMEs.
• Autonomy: Lead with trust, ownership, and creative freedom.
• Collaboration: Work closely with a high-performing EXCO and cross-functional teams.
• Growth: Join a company investing heavily in technology, innovation, and people.
• Care: Enjoy health and wellness benefits, including October Health and subsidised Olive & Plate meals.

Ready to shape the future of fintech and empower South Africa's small businesses? Apply now and help us build technology that drives impact at scale.

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Johannesburg, South Africa – Full-time

At Sourcefin, we make purchase order funding and invoice discounting easy for South Africa’s forgotten SMMEs. As CTO, you’ll shape the technology strategy that powers this mission — leading innovation, scalability, and security across our fintech platforms. You’ll build and mentor a high-performing team while steering Sourcefin’s transformation into an AI-native, data-driven organisation.

• Define and execute Sourcefin’s technology vision and roadmap to align with business growth.
• Drive innovation in fintech solutions and ensure Sourcefin remains a digital lending leader.
• Oversee the design, architecture, and delivery of scalable, high-performance platforms.
• Identify emerging technologies to enhance Sourcefin’s competitive edge.

• Lead full product lifecycle from ideation to deployment, using Agile and DevSecOps practices.
• Ensure secure, modular, and efficient financial systems that integrate via APIs and cloud services.
• Oversee product scalability and reliability as Sourcefin expands across South Africa.

• Maintain compliance with POPIA, ISO27001, GDPR, and PCI-DSS standards.
• Implement cybersecurity frameworks and risk management policies.
• Oversee data governance, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.

• Build, mentor, and inspire the Tech & Data team — software engineers, analysts, and IT leads.
• Partner with EXCO and business leads to ensure alignment of technology and strategy.
• Communicate Sourcefin’s technology vision to stakeholders, investors, and regulators.

• Oversee IT infrastructure, cloud solutions, and enterprise architecture for scalability.
• Lead adoption of AI, data analytics, and automation to unlock efficiency.
• Drive continuous improvement in system reliability, data management, and user experience.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of technology leadership experience, ideally in fintech or financial services.
• Proven experience leading digital transformation and large-scale software development.
• Strong knowledge of cloud computing (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Background in cybersecurity, data governance, and compliance.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on approach to solving complex technical challenges.

Impact: Build the systems that empower South Africa’s forgotten SMMEs.

Autonomy: Lead with trust, ownership, and creative freedom.

Collaboration: Work closely with a high-performing EXCO and cross-functional teams.

Growth: Join a company investing heavily in technology, innovation, and people.

Care: Enjoy health and wellness benefits, including October Health and subsidised Olive & Plate meals.

Ready to shape the future of fintech and empower South Africa’s small businesses? Apply now and help us build technology that drives impact at scale.

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We're not fussy – if the price is right and the quality checks out, we're selling it. That's what makes us the go-to for both the smart buyer and the eager seller. Toss in the urgency of our deals, and boom, success happens quicker than you can blink. So, jump in, where FOMO meets killer deals, and let's turn every day into a retail party!

CTO Vision

After 15 years of strong growth, we’re at a pivotal moment. Our business was built on grit, sharp execution, and home-grown systems—but the next chapter demands more. As our roadmap grows more complex and our ambitions more bold, we’re looking for a CTO who can help us scale into the future.

We need a system strategist who can assess our legacy tech, lead us toward a modern, AI-first architecture, and build the structures, tools, and teams that power innovation. A leader who thrives at the intersection of “code” and “commerce,” who can drive speed, resilience, and growth, and who plays a strategic role across the entire business—not just tech.

We’ve built something special—a uniquely South African platform that created its own market for deal-based savings. We have a fantastic development team who continue to achieve great things. But the space is shifting. New players are entering with agility, playfulness, and scale. To stay ahead, we need to evolve faster, think bolder, and lead smarter. This role isn’t only about keeping things running — it’s about reimagining what comes next.

About You

We're seeking a visionary, hands-on CTO who will architect our future. This is not a maintenance role - this is for someone who thinks like a founder, codes like a craftsman, and builds like a systems engineer. Your job is to define and deliver a technology strategy that sets our e-commerce business up for a decade of scale, speed, and intelligence.

You're a builder, strategist, and coach. You think in systems. You thrive under pressure and are as comfortable debugging an issue as you are whiteboarding the next 12-60 month tech roadmap. You're ready to make a measurable impact and love driving innovation, speed, and reliability through technology.

• A strategic thinker with deep technical expertise and strong commercial acumen.
• Comfortable operating across board-level strategy and hands-on technical leadership.
• Driven by innovation, optimisation, and creating measurable business impact.
• Adept at building and mentoring high-performing, multidisciplinary teams.
• Excited by scale, complexity, and transformation in a fast-moving e-commerce environment.

Responsibilities:

• Define and own the long-term technical strategy and system architecture.
• Rebuild or replatform legacy systems into scalable, modular, API-first architectures.
• Lead front-end, back-end, and data platform direction with modern stacks and tooling.
• Partner with the Directors and potentially serve on the board as a technology advisor and visionary.
• Mentor the Head of Development and establish clear development processes, engineering culture, and performance expectations.
• Drive innovation — from AI personalisation to big data platforms — to serve customer experience and business insights.
• Make build vs buy vs partner decisions with commercial ROI in mind.

What you’ll do:

• Define and execute a modern, AI-first technical strategy that scales with growth and enhances the customer experience.
• Assess and re-architect systems for modular, API-first scalability while managing risk and technical debt.
• Lead front-end, back-end, data, and DevOps teams—ensuring performance, security, and rapid iteration.

Customer & Commerce Experience

• Set the strategic direction for all user-facing systems, ensuring a fast, beautiful, and consistent UI across mobile and desktop.
• Drive UX/UI initiatives and align with product and design teams.
• Implement features like intelligent search, recommendation engines, and personalisation.
• Champion a culture of experimentation (A/B testing, conversion funnel optimisation).

Infrastructure, Security & Scalability

• Architect scalable, secure back-end services for high transaction volumes.
• Oversee all cloud, server, and deployment strategies for performance and reliability.
• Lead DevOps best practices to enable rapid deployment and rollback.
• Integrate robust fintech and third-party systems including ERP, WMS, CRM, and payment platforms.

Data & AI

• Define the company’s data strategy—from pipelines to dashboards to real-time insights.
• Guide predictive modelling, AI-driven personalisation, and forecasting initiatives.
• Empower all teams with self-serve analytics and foster data literacy organisation-wide.

Core competencies and skills:

• Architectural knowledge across modern cloud platforms, microservices, containerisation, and event-driven systems.
• Deep understanding of large-scale e-commerce platforms (multi-tenant, multi-country, high concurrency).
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives with product, marketing, finance and ops.
• Hands-on coding ability — still writes and reviews code in modern frameworks.
• Business-minded: Thinks in cost-to-scale, margin impact, data ROI.
• Inspires technical teams, earns the respect of senior developers.

Technical Skills

• Front-End: React, ReactNative
• Back-End: PHP, Laravel, Next JS, NodeJS
• Architecture: MySQL, Redis, CloudFlare

Data & Reporting

• BigQuery, Snowflake, MySQL
• BI tools (PowerBI, Tableau)
• Analytics tools (GA4, Firebase)
• Proven leadership of technical teams (engineering, DevOps, data)
• Strategic alignment of tech to commercial OKRs
• Board-level communication and planning
• Deep experience in platform innovation and AI integration

Experience and Qualifications:

• BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of technical experience, with 5+ years at senior leadership level
• Proven track record scaling high-traffic e-commerce or tech platforms
• Knowledge of the South African market is preferred but not essential

What success looks like:

• Secure, scalable systems with 99.95% uptime and rapid feature delivery
• Real-time, actionable insights across business units
• Clear alignment between tech roadmaps and company strategy
• A high-performance engineering culture built on speed, learning, and excellence

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates.

About OneDayOnly

OneDayOnly.co.za is a fast-paced, high-volume e-commerce business at the forefront of daily deals and flash sales in South Africa. We delight millions of customers with compelling offers, and we're now entering an era of scaled innovation. This role is critical to unlocking the next wave of customer experience, data sophistication, and platform growth.

CTO Vision

After 15 years of strong growth, we’re at a pivotal moment. Our business was built on grit, sharp execution, and home-grown systems—but the next chapter demands more. As our roadmap grows more complex and our ambitions more bold, we’re looking for a CTO who can help us scale into the future.

We need a system strategist who can assess our legacy tech, lead us toward a modern, AI-first architecture, and build the structures, tools, and teams that power innovation. A leader who thrives at the intersection of “code” and “commerce,” who can drive speed, resilience, and growth, and who plays a strategic role across the entire business—not just tech.

We’ve built something special—a uniquely South African platform that created its own market for deal-based savings. We have a fantastic development team who continue to achieve great things. But the space is shifting. New players are entering with agility, playfulness, and scale. To stay ahead, we need to evolve faster, think bolder, and lead smarter. This role isn’t only about keeping things running — it’s about reimagining what comes next.

Who you are

We're seeking a visionary, hands-on CTO who will architect our future. This is not a maintenance role - this is for someone who thinks like a founder, codes like a craftsman, and builds like a systems engineer. Your job is to define and deliver a technology strategy that sets our e-commerce business up for a decade of scale, speed, and intelligence.

You're a builder, strategist, and coach. You think in systems. You thrive under pressure and are as comfortable debugging an issue as you are whiteboarding the next 12-60 month tech roadmap. You're ready to make a measurable impact and love driving innovation, speed, and reliability through technology.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the long-term technical strategy and system architecture.
• Rebuild or replatform legacy systems into scalable, modular, API-first architectures.
• Lead front-end, back-end, and data platform direction with modern stacks and tooling.
• Partner with the Directors and potentially serve on the board as a technology advisor and visionary.
• Mentor the Head of Development and establish clear development processes, engineering culture, and performance expectations.
• Drive innovation — from AI personalisation to big data platforms — to serve customer experience and business insights.
• Make build vs buy vs partner decisions with commercial ROI in mind.

What You’ll Do

Technology & Platform Strategy

• Define and execute a modern, AI-first technical strategy that scales with growth and enhances the customer experience.
• Assess and re-architect systems for modular, API-first scalability while managing risk and technical debt.
• Lead front-end, back-end, data, and DevOps teams—ensuring performance, security, and rapid iteration.

Customer & Commerce Experience

• Set the strategic direction for all user-facing systems, ensuring a fast, beautiful, and consistent UI across mobile and desktop.
• Drive UX/UI initiatives and align with product and design teams.
• Implement features like intelligent search, recommendation engines, and personalisation.
• Champion a culture of experimentation (A/B testing, conversion funnel optimisation).

Infrastructure, Security & Scalability

• Architect scalable, secure back-end services for high transaction volumes.
• Oversee all cloud, server, and deployment strategies for performance and reliability.
• Lead DevOps best practices to enable rapid deployment and rollback.
• Integrate robust fintech and third-party systems including ERP, WMS, CRM, and payment platforms.

Data & AI

• Define the company’s data strategy—from pipelines to dashboards to real-time insights.
• Guide predictive modelling, AI-driven personalisation, and forecasting initiatives.
• Empower all teams with self-serve analytics and foster data literacy organisation-wide.

Key Skills

Core Competencies & Skills

• Architectural knowledge across modern cloud platforms, microservices, containerisation, and event-driven systems.
• Deep understanding of large-scale e-commerce platforms (multi-tenant, multi-country, high concurrency).
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives with product, marketing, finance and ops.
• Hands-on coding ability — still writes and reviews code in modern frameworks.
• Business-minded: Thinks in cost-to-scale, margin impact, data ROI.
• Inspires technical teams, earns the respect of senior developers.

Technical Skills

• Front-End: React, ReactNative
• Back-End: PHP, Laravel, Next JS, NodeJS
• Infrastructure: AWS/GCP/Azure
• Architecture: MySQL, Redis, CloudFlare
• DevOps: Azure Devops, BitBucket, GitHub, CI Pipelines

Data & Reporting

• BigQuery, Snowflake, MySQL
• BI tools (PowerBI, Tableau)
• Analytics tools (GA4, Firebase)

Leadership & Strategy

• Proven leadership of technical teams (engineering, DevOps, data)
• Strategic alignment of tech to commercial OKRs
• Board-level communication and planning
• Deep experience in platform innovation and AI integration

Requirements

• BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of technical experience, with 5+ years at senior leadership level
• Proven track record scaling high-traffic e-commerce or tech platforms
• Knowledge of the South African market is preferred but not essential

What Success Looks Like

• Secure, scalable systems with 99.95% uptime and rapid feature delivery
• Real-time, actionable insights across business units
• Clear alignment between tech roadmaps and company strategy
• A high-performance engineering culture built on speed, learning, and excellence

About OneDayOnly

OneDayOnly.co.za is a fast-paced, high-volume e-commerce business at the forefront of daily deals and flash sales in South Africa. We delight millions of customers with compelling offers, and we're now entering an era of scaled innovation. This role is critical to unlocking the next wave of customer experience, data sophistication, and platform growth.

After 15 years of strong growth, we’re at a pivotal moment. Our business was built on grit, sharp execution, and home-grown systems—but the next chapter demands more. As our roadmap grows more complex and our ambitions more bold, we’re looking for a CTO who can help us scale into the future.

We need a system strategist who can assess our legacy tech, lead us toward a modern, AI-first architecture, and build the structures, tools, and teams that power innovation. A leader who thrives at the intersection of “code” and “commerce,” who can drive speed, resilience, and growth, and who plays a strategic role across the entire business—not just tech.

We’ve built something special—a uniquely South African platform that created its own market for deal-based savings. We have a fantastic development team who continue to achieve great things. But the space is shifting. New players are entering with agility, playfulness, and scale. To stay ahead, we need to evolve faster, think bolder, and lead smarter. This role isn’t only about keeping things running — it’s about reimagining what comes next.

We're seeking a visionary, hands-on CTO who will architect our future. This is not a maintenance role - this is for someone who thinks like a founder, codes like a craftsman, and builds like a systems engineer. Your job is to define and deliver a technology strategy that sets our e-commerce business up for a decade of scale, speed, and intelligence.

You're a builder, strategist, and coach. You think in systems. You thrive under pressure and are as comfortable debugging an issue as you are whiteboarding the next 12-60 month tech roadmap. You're ready to make a measurable impact and love driving innovation, speed, and reliability through technology.

• A strategic thinker with deep technical expertise and strong commercial acumen.
• Comfortable operating across board-level strategy and hands-on technical leadership.
• Driven by innovation, optimisation, and creating measurable business impact.
• Adept at building and mentoring high-performing, multidisciplinary teams.
• Excited by scale, complexity, and transformation in a fast-moving e-commerce environment.

• Define and own the long-term technical strategy and system architecture.
• Rebuild or replatform legacy systems into scalable, modular, API-first architectures.
• Lead front-end, back-end, and data platform direction with modern stacks and tooling.
• Partner with the Directors and potentially serve on the board as a technology advisor and visionary.
• Mentor the Head of Development and establish clear development processes, engineering culture, and performance expectations.
• Drive innovation — from AI personalisation to big data platforms — to serve customer experience and business insights.
• Make build vs buy vs partner decisions with commercial ROI in mind.

Technology & Platform Strategy

• Define and execute a modern, AI-first technical strategy that scales with growth and enhances the customer experience.
• Assess and re-architect systems for modular, API-first scalability while managing risk and technical debt.
• Lead front-end, back-end, data, and DevOps teams—ensuring performance, security, and rapid iteration.
  

Customer & Commerce Experience

• Set the strategic direction for all user-facing systems, ensuring a fast, beautiful, and consistent UI across mobile and desktop.
• Drive UX/UI initiatives and align with product and design teams.
• Implement features like intelligent search, recommendation engines, and personalisation.
• Champion a culture of experimentation (A/B testing, conversion funnel optimisation).

Infrastructure, Security & Scalability

• Architect scalable, secure back-end services for high transaction volumes.
• Oversee all cloud, server, and deployment strategies for performance and reliability.
• Lead DevOps best practices to enable rapid deployment and rollback.
• Integrate robust fintech and third-party systems including ERP, WMS, CRM, and payment platforms.

Data & AI

• Define the company’s data strategy—from pipelines to dashboards to real-time insights.
• Guide predictive modelling, AI-driven personalisation, and forecasting initiatives.
• Empower all teams with self-serve analytics and foster data literacy organisation-wide.

Key SKills

• Architectural knowledge across modern cloud platforms, microservices, containerisation, and event-driven systems.
• Deep understanding of large-scale e-commerce platforms (multi-tenant, multi-country, high concurrency).
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives with product, marketing, finance and ops.
• Hands-on coding ability — still writes and reviews code in modern frameworks.
• Business-minded: Thinks in cost-to-scale, margin impact, data ROI.
• Inspires technical teams, earns the respect of senior developers.

Technical Skills

• Front-End: React, ReactNative
• Back-End: PHP, Laravel, Next JS, NodeJS
• Infrastructure: AWS/GCP/Azure
• Architecture: MySQL, Redis, CloudFlare
• DevOps: Azure Devops, BitBucket, GitHub, CI Pipelines

Data & Reporting

• BigQuery, Snowflake, MySQL
• BI tools (PowerBI, Tableau)
• Analytics tools (GA4, Firebase)

Leadership & Strategy

• Proven leadership of technical teams (engineering, DevOps, data)
• Strategic alignment of tech to commercial OKRs
• Board-level communication and planning
• Deep experience in platform innovation and AI integration

• BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of technical experience, with 5+ years at senior leadership level
• Proven track record scaling high-traffic e-commerce or tech platforms
• Knowledge of the South African market is preferred but not essential

• Secure, scalable systems with 99.95% uptime and rapid feature delivery
• Real-time, actionable insights across business units
• Clear alignment between tech roadmaps and company strategy
• A high-performance engineering culture built on speed, learning, and excellence

Reference: BIT -TAP-1

A company that works in management and communication systems is looking for a Chief Technology Officer. As the CTO, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the company's technological direction and driving innovation in their products and services. Reporting directly to the CEO, you will lead and manage the software development, product management, and technical installation teams.

Centurion
Salary: R 1mil – R1.4mil per annum

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree

• 10+ years in Software Development
• 6+ years leading strong Development teams
• Strong Technical Background
• Cloud Architecture and SaaS experience
• Hands-on with mobile and web technologies
• RESTful APIs and 3rd party integrations
• Excellent leadership and communication skills
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment
• Strategic mindset
• Strong problem-solving skills
• DevOps
• Agile Processes

• Manage a team of Developers, Product Managers, and Technicians
• Engage with employees, stakeholders, and customers
• Ensure appropriate development and utilization of the company's technologies
• Oversee the entire product development life cycle
• Manage Agile processes and tools for various features/modules
• Leading DevOps and Technical activities
• Offering problem-solving and 3rd line support
• Enhancing the platform and technology stack
• Strategy and Innovation
• Performance efficiency
• Process management
• Technical delivery
• Team leadership and Management
• Technical architecture and infrastructure
• Cybersecurity and risk Management
• Manage and cultivate strategic partnerships

Apply now!

Reference: JHB -MM1-2

Our client, a non-profit conservation organisation that takes on the complete responsibility for the rehabilitation and long-term management of national parks and wildlife reserves in partnership with governments and local communities is urgently looking for a Chief Technology Officer to be responsible for:

• Bringing together and coordinating the functional experts and activities of the IT and Support, Technology and Networks and Systems departments into an integrated Technology Department and formulate a unified strategy to address the organisation's various needs (both at the park level and the institutional platform)
• Establishing a single source of truth (SSOT) within the organisation, to allow for a central and reliable data and reporting system
• Establishing and ensuring the maintenance of AP IT and Technology standards across all parks and Head Office, particularly in terms of security and connectivity
• Maximising automation and systems integration to allow managers to focus on strategic issues, with the applicable systems allowing teams to "manage by exception"

In order to be considered the following is required:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as computer science, information technology, or engineering
• Advanced degrees or certifications in technology management or business administration are a plus – or equivalent work experience
• 15 years of professional experience, with 5 years minimum in technology leadership roles
• Deep understanding of a broad range of technologies, including information systems, software development, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies relevant to the conservation sector
• Abreast of technological trends and opportunities to foster innovation and operational efficiency in the conservation sector
• Ability to develop and articulate a strategic vision
• Ability to effectively manage projects, teams and budgets
• Experience in driving organisational change
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage with diverse stakeholders (Exco, Board members, program managers, and external partners)
• Ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical language and build consensus around technology strategies
• Capacity to thrive in a dynamic and resource-constrained environment
• Fluent in English – spoken and written (Proficiency in French or Portuguese is an advantage)
• A passion for conservation and Africa, its wildlife and its people

Responsibilities:

• Strategy and planning
• IT and support
• Security and risk management
• Technology and networks
• System integration and architecture
• Data Management
• Leadership and management
• Budget management

If you would like to email your CV directly – please send it to

Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application.