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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

  1. Provide users with technical support for computer problems.
  2. Consult with users, management, vendors, and technicians to assess computing needs and system requirements.
  3. Direct daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines.
  4. Assign and review the work of systems analysts, programmers, and other computer-related workers.
  5. Stay abreast of advances in technology.
  6. Develop computer information resources, providing for data security and control, strategic computing, and disaster recovery.
  7. Review and approve all systems charts and programs prior to their implementation.
  8. Evaluate the organization's technology use and needs and recommend improvements, such as hardware and software upgrades.

How to use this skill

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.*