Chief Technology Officer

Certus Recruitment Group

We’re partnering with a high-growth SaaS platform business seeking a strategic and hands-on Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead engineering, architecture, platform reliability, security, quality, and AI adoption across the organisation.

Sydney CBD (3 days per week in office)

Permanent Full-Time

$260K–$300K base + super + STI

Reporting directly to the CEO

This is a rare opportunity to shape and scale a modern enterprise platform operating in regulated environments, with a strong mandate around engineering excellence, operational maturity, and practical AI/agentic AI adoption.

• Product Engineering and platform scalability

• Architecture strategy, domain design, and integration patterns

• Platform Engineering, CI/CD, DevEx and tooling

• Reliability/SRE, observability, SLOs and incident management

• Security Engineering and secure SDLC practices

• QA and non-functional quality systems

• Design systems and UX consistency across products

• AI and agentic AI enablement across SDLC and operations

Proven CTO-level ownership of SaaS/platform engineering environments across architecture, reliability, security and quality

Strong architecture and platform thinking with scalable integration and extensibility design experience

Deep production reliability capability including SLOs, observability, incident management and operational readiness

Experience embedding secure SDLC practices, vulnerability management and automated security controls

Strong quality engineering mindset with automation frameworks and non-functional quality ownership

Practical AI and agentic AI adoption experience with governance, auditability and measurable outcomes

Proven ability to lead and scale Engineering Leads, Tech Leads and Architects across growing organisations

Enterprise or regulated environment experience (insurance/financial services highly regarded)

Ability to balance Product, Delivery and Run models while protecting core platform integrity

Executive stakeholder engagement and client-facing technology leadership capability

Strong engineering metrics fluency across lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate and MTTR

This role is ideal for a modern engineering executive who combines deep technical credibility with strong operational leadership and the ability to scale teams, systems and AI-enabled delivery practices.

If interested, feel free to reach out directly or send through your profile for a confidential discussion.

Interested candidates with full Australian working rights are encouraged to apply and join a growing, forward-thinking team.

Please email me your CV to ***email_hidden*** then give Charmaine Thum a call on 0439 320 538