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name, description
| name | description |
|---|---|
| chief-technology-officer | Occupational skill for the role 'chief technology officer' (also: chief technology officers, IT director, chief digital officer, information technology director, CTO). Use when the user asks for typical chief technology officer work such as: Provide users with technical support for computer problems.; Consult with users, management, vendors, and technicians to assess computing needs and system requirements.; Direct daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines. |
Chief Technology Officer
Chief technology officers contribute to a company's technical vision and lead all aspects of technology development, according to its strategic direction and growth objectives. They match technology with business needs.
Core workflow
- Provide users with technical support for computer problems.
- Consult with users, management, vendors, and technicians to assess computing needs and system requirements.
- Direct daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines.
- Assign and review the work of systems analysts, programmers, and other computer-related workers.
- Stay abreast of advances in technology.
- Develop computer information resources, providing for data security and control, strategic computing, and disaster recovery.
- Review and approve all systems charts and programs prior to their implementation.
- Evaluate the organization's technology use and needs and recommend improvements, such as hardware and software upgrades.
How to use this skill
- Read references/profile.md for the occupation profile and scope.
- Consult references/tasks.md for the full task and activity inventory.
- Check references/skills.md for essential vs. optional competences.
- Check references/tools.md for the software commonly used in this role.
- See references/ai-skills.md โ matched external AI agent skills (per-source attribution).
Key competences (essential)
- administer ICT system
- analyse ICT system
- attack vectors
- carry out strategic research
- coordinate technological activities
- decision support systems
- define technology strategy
- ensure adherence to organisational ICT standards
- establish an ICT customer support process
- ICT project management
- ICT project management methodologies
- implement corporate governance
- implement ICT coding conventions
- industrial research and development
- lead technology development of an organisation
Hot technologies
- IBM SPSS Statistics
- SAS
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Microsoft Windows Server
- Tableau
- Splunk Enterprise
- Puppet
- Atlassian JIRA
- Apache Cassandra
- Apache Hadoop
Hot technologies
Top tools from 53 gated job ads (see references/market.md, as of 2026-07-10):
- Azure โ 11 %
- AWS โ 8 %
Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/7b1b5da8-573a-49bb-a38e-68725a949f4f), ONET 30.3 (11-3021.00). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*