Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Sector: Femtech

About the Role

Our client, an innovative and scaling organisation within the digital health and Femtech ecosystem, is seeking a strategically minded Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead and elevate their technology function. This is a pivotal executive role responsible for shaping the long-term technology vision, driving product innovation, and ensuring world-class technical delivery across cloud, mobile, data, and platform engineering.

The ideal candidate is an experienced technology leader with deep hands-on engineering credibility, a strong track record in cloud-native architectures, and proven experience building scalable SaaS platforms in regulated healthcare or digital health environments.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Leadership & Strategy

• Define and execute the overall technology strategy, aligned with the company’s product roadmap and commercial vision.
• Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing engineering and technical organisation across backend, mobile, data, DevOps, and security.
• Partner closely with Product, Clinical, Commercial, and Operations to drive innovation and rapid iteration.

Architecture & Platform Ownership

• Lead the design and implementation of cloud-native infrastructure (AWS and/or GCP), ensuring high availability, reliability, and scalability.
• Oversee a microservices-based architecture and modern API-first framework to support platform modularity and interoperability with partners and enterprise clients.
• Own the technical standards, system architecture, engineering best practices, and overall technical roadmap.

Mobile-First Product Leadership

• Drive excellence in building and scaling iOS and Android mobile applications, ensuring best-in-class performance, privacy, UX, and security.
• Ensure mobile engineering teams adopt modern frameworks, tooling, CI/CD, and testing methodologies.

Security, Compliance & Data Governance

• Ensure platforms are secure, compliant, and robust, with strong practices around data governance, privacy (GDPR, HIPAA where relevant), and cybersecurity.
• Oversee technical aspects of regulatory and quality frameworks relevant to digital health/Femtech.

Execution & Delivery

• Lead end-to-end delivery, from architecture and development to deployment and ongoing operations.
• Implement effective engineering processes, OKRs, SLAs, and output-driven team performance metrics.
• Develop scalable DevOps and automation practices, including CI/CD, observability, telemetry, and incident response.

Experience & Qualifications

Essential

• Proven leadership experience as a CTO, VP Engineering, or equivalent senior technical leader in digital health, Femtech, SaaS, or regulated health tech.
• Deep experience building cloud-native systems on AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong background in microservices architectures, API frameworks (REST/GraphQL), and distributed systems.
• Demonstrable success scaling mobile-first products across iOS and Android.
• Experience building and growing high-performing engineering teams in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
• Strong understanding of security, privacy, and compliance within healthcare or sensitive data environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred

• Experience with enterprise integrations (HRIS, benefits platforms, payers, etc.).
• Background working in global or multi-market technology environments.
• Experience supporting commercial functions with technical expertise during enterprise sales cycles

What You Bring

• A founder-like mindset: hands-on, pragmatic, and comfortable working in a fast-scaling, mission-driven environment.
• A passion for women’s health, digital health innovation, and building technology that improves access, equity, and outcomes.
• The ability to balance strategic vision with tactical delivery.