Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
2026-02-02T11:12:11+00:00
M-Forte
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FULL_TIME
Kampala
Kampala
00256
Uganda
Professional Services
Management, Computer & IT, Science & Engineering, Business Operations
2026-02-20T17:00:00+00:00
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Background
Our client in the fintech industry is a fast-growing, innovation-driven organization operating at the intersection of technology, financial inclusion, and digital transformation. The organization seeks to strengthen its core technology leadership and delivery capability by filling the following key role: Chief Technology Officer (CTO), This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the design, scaling, and resilience of mission-critical fintech platforms in a dynamic and high-impact environment.
Role Summary
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) will be in charge of all company technology and technological resources. As CTO, you will establish company technology vision, strategies, and plans for growth. You will supervise the system and quality assurance processes and focus on maintaining and improving all technological issues in the company.
The CTO will also manage the research and development team to find innovative ways to improve offerings. Once a new solution is identified, the CTO will work with the engineers and developers to expand product and/or service offerings.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Setting the company’s technical vision and leading technological development
- Developing strategic plans and setting timelines for evaluation, development, and deployment of all technical, web, and mobile services
- Identifying opportunities for web and mobile services as well as Identifying company web user needs
- Ensuring technology standards and best practices are met
- Monitoring web analytics and making recommendations that align with business goals
- Supervising quality assurance processes, integration, and system tests
- Establishing software development process and setting objectives for the process
- Monitoring performance profiling tools and procedures
- Maintaining network security with the IT team
- Developing and implementing disaster and emergency recovery plans
- Defining company standards for systems, equipment, and software
- Sharing technological visions, opportunities, and risks company-wide
- Studying current and new industry trends, technologies, and software development
Managing and Leading Team
- Work as the Team Lead
- Lead in software architecture and design and supervise the workflow of the IT department
- Lead the software development team in software quality assurance and analysis.
- Lead the systems security by ensuring that systems and applications are kept secure (Ensure security of data, network access and backup systems)
- Lead project manager for IT projects
- Manage IT team by recruiting, training and coaching employees, communicating job expectations and appraising their performance. Develop and use KPI’s for all IT staff
- Communicate business needs to the IT team and the reverse
Processes
- Plan, organize, control and evaluate IT and electronic data operations
- Design, develop, implement and coordinate systems, policies and procedures
- Identify problematic areas and implement strategic solutions in time
- Audit systems and assess their outcomes
- Ensure that the company’s technological needs are met both in the short and long term
- Work with the systems admin and ensuring systems uptime
- Ensure Security of the Company’s infrastructure
- Align the company’s technology resources with the organization’s short- and long-term goals
- Serve on the executive committee to align technology goals to other departmental and organizational objectives
- Collaborate with department heads, marketing, production, and operations as an advisor of all technologies involved with the company
- Ensure the company’s technological processes and service comply with all requirements, laws, and regulations
Budget
- Manage IT budget and ensure cost effectiveness
- Ensuring deadlines are met and within proposed budget
Customer Engagement and support
- Evaluate client needs and recommend software solutions
- Act in alignment with user needs and system functionality to contribute to organizational policy
- Identify Customer needs
- Setting the company’s technical vision and leading technological development
- Developing strategic plans and setting timelines for evaluation, development, and deployment of all technical, web, and mobile services
- Identifying opportunities for web and mobile services as well as Identifying company web user needs
- Ensuring technology standards and best practices are met
- Monitoring web analytics and making recommendations that align with business goals
- Supervising quality assurance processes, integration, and system tests
- Establishing software development process and setting objectives for the process
- Monitoring performance profiling tools and procedures
- Maintaining network security with the IT team
- Developing and implementing disaster and emergency recovery plans
- Defining company standards for systems, equipment, and software
- Sharing technological visions, opportunities, and risks company-wide
- Studying current and new industry trends, technologies, and software development
- Work as the Team Lead
- Lead in software architecture and design and supervise the workflow of the IT department
- Lead the software development team in software quality assurance and analysis.
- Lead the systems security by ensuring that systems and applications are kept secure (Ensure security of data, network access and backup systems)
- Lead project manager for IT projects
- Manage IT team by recruiting, training and coaching employees, communicating job expectations and appraising their performance. Develop and use KPI’s for all IT staff
- Communicate business needs to the IT team and the reverse
- Plan, organize, control and evaluate IT and electronic data operations
- Design, develop, implement and coordinate systems, policies and procedures
- Identify problematic areas and implement strategic solutions in time
- Audit systems and assess their outcomes
- Ensure that the company’s technological needs are met both in the short and long term
- Work with the systems admin and ensuring systems uptime
- Ensure Security of the Company’s infrastructure
- Align the company’s technology resources with the organization’s short- and long-term goals
- Serve on the executive committee to align technology goals to other departmental and organizational objectives
- Collaborate with department heads, marketing, production, and operations as an advisor of all technologies involved with the company
- Ensure the company’s technological processes and service comply with all requirements, laws, and regulations
- Manage IT budget and ensure cost effectiveness
- Ensuring deadlines are met and within proposed budget
- Evaluate client needs and recommend software solutions
- Act in alignment with user needs and system functionality to contribute to organizational policy
- Identify Customer needs
- Software architecture and design
- Software quality assurance and analysis
- Systems security
- Project management
- Team management (recruiting, training, coaching, performance appraisal)
- KPI development
- IT budget management
- Cost effectiveness
- Client needs evaluation
- Software solution recommendation
- System functionality alignment
- Customer needs identification
- Network security
- Disaster and emergency recovery planning
- Web analytics monitoring
- Performance profiling
- Experience in leading technology development and strategy
- Experience in developing strategic plans for technical services
- Experience in identifying opportunities for web and mobile services
- Experience in ensuring technology standards and best practices
- Experience in monitoring web analytics
- Experience in supervising quality assurance, integration, and system tests
- Experience in establishing software development processes
- Experience in monitoring performance profiling tools
- Experience in maintaining network security
- Experience in developing and implementing disaster and emergency recovery plans
- Experience in defining company standards for systems, equipment, and software
- Experience in studying industry trends, technologies, and software development
- Experience in leading software architecture and design
- Experience in managing IT teams
- Experience in IT project management
- Experience in managing IT budgets
- Experience in evaluating client needs and recommending software solutions
JOB-6980868b3d100
Vacancy title:
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Professional Services, Category: Management, Computer & IT, Science & Engineering, Business Operations]
Jobs at:
M-Forte
Deadline of this Job:
Friday, February 20 2026
Duty Station:
Kampala | Kampala
Summary
Date Posted: Monday, February 2 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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JOB DETAILS:
Background
Our client in the fintech industry is a fast-growing, innovation-driven organization operating at the intersection of technology, financial inclusion, and digital transformation. The organization seeks to strengthen its core technology leadership and delivery capability by filling the following key role: Chief Technology Officer (CTO), This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the design, scaling, and resilience of mission-critical fintech platforms in a dynamic and high-impact environment.
Role Summary
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) will be in charge of all company technology and technological resources. As CTO, you will establish company technology vision, strategies, and plans for growth. You will supervise the system and quality assurance processes and focus on maintaining and improving all technological issues in the company.
The CTO will also manage the research and development team to find innovative ways to improve offerings. Once a new solution is identified, the CTO will work with the engineers and developers to expand product and/or service offerings.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Setting the company’s technical vision and leading technological development
- Developing strategic plans and setting timelines for evaluation, development, and deployment of all technical, web, and mobile services
- Identifying opportunities for web and mobile services as well as Identifying company web user needs
- Ensuring technology standards and best practices are met
- Monitoring web analytics and making recommendations that align with business goals
- Supervising quality assurance processes, integration, and system tests
- Establishing software development process and setting objectives for the process
- Monitoring performance profiling tools and procedures
- Maintaining network security with the IT team
- Developing and implementing disaster and emergency recovery plans
- Defining company standards for systems, equipment, and software
- Sharing technological visions, opportunities, and risks company-wide
- Studying current and new industry trends, technologies, and software development
Managing and Leading Team
- Work as the Team Lead
- Lead in software architecture and design and supervise the workflow of the IT department
- Lead the software development team in software quality assurance and analysis.
- Lead the systems security by ensuring that systems and applications are kept secure (Ensure security of data, network access and backup systems)
- Lead project manager for IT projects
- Manage IT team by recruiting, training and coaching employees, communicating job expectations and appraising their performance. Develop and use KPI’s for all IT staff
- Communicate business needs to the IT team and the reverse
Processes
- Plan, organize, control and evaluate IT and electronic data operations
- Design, develop, implement and coordinate systems, policies and procedures
- Identify problematic areas and implement strategic solutions in time
- Audit systems and assess their outcomes
- Ensure that the company’s technological needs are met both in the short and long term
- Work with the systems admin and ensuring systems uptime
- Ensure Security of the Company’s infrastructure
- Align the company’s technology resources with the organization’s short- and long-term goals
- Serve on the executive committee to align technology goals to other departmental and organizational objectives
- Collaborate with department heads, marketing, production, and operations as an advisor of all technologies involved with the company
- Ensure the company’s technological processes and service comply with all requirements, laws, and regulations
Budget
- Manage IT budget and ensure cost effectiveness
- Ensuring deadlines are met and within proposed budget
Customer Engagement and support
- Evaluate client needs and recommend software solutions
- Act in alignment with user needs and system functionality to contribute to organizational policy
- Identify Customer needs
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 36
Level of Education: postgraduate degree
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