About the job

Chief Technology Officer / VP Technology

Enterprise SaaS | AI Delivery | Platform Scale | Executive Leadership

Salient is partnering with a high-growth software business operating in the enterprise SaaS market. The company provides mission-critical software to large, complex customers and is entering an important phase of product, platform, and technology evolution.

With AI, automation, data, and workflow transformation becoming increasingly important across enterprise environments, the business is looking for a senior technology leader who can help shape and deliver the next stage of growth.

This is a broad executive technology role suited to someone who can combine strong technical depth, commercial thinking, enterprise customer awareness, and modern AI delivery capability.

The right person will be responsible for leading technology strategy, improving engineering execution, scaling platform capability, and helping the business identify where AI and automation can create meaningful customer and operational impact.

The Role

The CTO / VP Technology will work closely with the CEO, executive team, product leadership, and commercial stakeholders to ensure technology is a core driver of business growth.

This is a role for a pragmatic technology leader who understands how to build and scale SaaS platforms, lead engineering teams, modernise delivery practices, and bring structure to complex product and technology environments.

The successful candidate will help the business move faster, improve technical decision-making, strengthen delivery capability, and build a clear roadmap for AI-enabled product and operational transformation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead overall technology strategy across engineering, platform, architecture, infrastructure, security, data, and AI delivery.
• Partner with the CEO, executive team, product, and commercial stakeholders to turn business priorities into clear technology roadmaps and delivery plans.
• Own the evolution of a complex enterprise SaaS platform, improving scalability, reliability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Identify and deliver practical AI, automation, data, and workflow intelligence initiatives that create measurable business and customer value.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing technology function across engineering, architecture, DevOps, QA, data, and security.
• Improve delivery cadence, engineering standards, accountability, quality practices, and cross-functional ways of working.
• Strengthen enterprise readiness across security, compliance, governance, privacy, data management, incident response, and operational resilience.
• Act as the senior technology voice across leadership, customers, partners, and internal teams.

What We’re Looking For / Ideal Background

• Proven experience leading technology, engineering, or product technology teams within Enterprise SaaS, B2B software, fintech, regtech, healthtech, insurtech, data platforms, workflow automation, or similarly complex software environments.
• Strong technical credibility across modern cloud architecture, scalable platforms, APIs, integrations, DevOps, security, data, and software delivery.
• Track record of improving engineering maturity, delivery performance, platform reliability, technical decision-making, and team accountability.
• Experience working with enterprise customers, complex stakeholders, implementation requirements, and security / compliance-conscious environments.
• Clear understanding of AI, automation, data platforms, machine learning, LLMs, workflow intelligence, or AI-enabled product delivery, with the ability to separate practical business value from hype.

This is an opportunity to join an enterprise SaaS business at an important stage of growth and technology evolution. The role offers a broad mandate across platform strategy, engineering leadership, AI delivery, enterprise readiness, and commercial impact.

For a senior technology leader who enjoys building scalable software platforms, improving engineering capability, and helping businesses use AI in practical, valuable ways, this is a highly compelling opportunity.

Confidential Search: This is a confidential leadership search being managed by Salient Group. Further details will be shared with relevant candidates following an initial conversation.