Chief Technology Officer

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

🌍 Strong European Market Experience Required

📍 Dubai, UAE

🏢 Hybrid Working

📈 Hospitality / Travel Sector

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The Opportunity

We are partnering exclusively with a fast-growing hospitality business in Dubai that is entering a period of significant hyper-growth in 2026, with plans to increase overall headcount by 85%.

As part of this next phase, the business is looking to appoint a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead the technology vision, scale platforms and teams, and ensure technology becomes a true growth enabler across the organisation.

This is a senior leadership role with real influence at board and executive level.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and define the technology strategy and roadmap, aligned to business growth and expansion plans
• Lead, build, and scale high-performing engineering and technology teams
• Oversee architecture, platform scalability, reliability, and security
• Drive modernisation of systems, integrations, and data platforms where required
• Partner closely with the executive team on commercial, operational, and customer-experience initiatives
• Ensure best practices across engineering, DevOps, data, and cloud infrastructure
• Manage technology budgets, vendors, and long-term technical decisions

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience as a CTO, VP of Engineering, or Head of Technology in a scaling business
• Extensive experience operating in European markets
• Strong background in hospitality or travel technology (MUST)
• Experience leading technology through rapid growth and organisational change
• Comfortable operating at both strategic and hands-on levels
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
• Experience building technology for customer-facing, high-availability platforms

Why Join

• Executive-level role with ownership and autonomy
• Join a business at a genuine inflection point of growth
• Opportunity to shape technology from a leadership and cultural perspective
• Dubai-based role with hybrid working
• Long-term growth and impact opportunity