Deputy CTO

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🕒 September 11

🌐 South Africa, Kenya – Remote

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote 🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👨‍💼 Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

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Girls For Girls Africa Mental Health Foundation

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🌍 Social Impact

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance • Social Impact

Girls For Girls Africa Mental Health Foundation is an organization focused on improving mental health across Africa. Their work involves a global community of mental health innovators including researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, and advocates. Their mission includes promoting mental health, supporting mental health integration into general healthcare, and providing innovative resources and ideas to improve mental health services. They focus on addressing mental, neurological, and substance use disorders and provide platforms for sharing knowledge and innovations in mental health services across different parts of the world.

📋 Description

• Take end-to-end operational and strategic ownership of roughly half of Tiko’s technology organisation • Lead 50–60 engineers, architects, and data professionals across four teams • Partner with the Deputy Chief Product Officer to turn the technology vision into a resilient, scalable, high-throughput reality • Own the integrity of Tiko’s technical architecture and set cross-cutting principles and standards across engineering, data, and cloud infrastructure • Arbitrate major build-versus-buy decisions • Contribute technical initiatives to the joint product and technology roadmap • Prioritise platform health and technical-debt management alongside feature delivery • Monitor emerging technologies and industry shifts • Manage, mentor, and develop two Engineering Directors, a Data Architect, and a Software & Infrastructure Architect • Scale and nurture a high-performing 50+ person engineering organisation • Establish metrics, SLAs, and KPIs for platform health, delivery performance, and engineering effectiveness • Create organisational conditions for predictable, low-toil delivery • Champion security, privacy, regulatory compliance, and ISO 27001 alignment • Identify, monitor, and mitigate technical, operational, and vendor risks • Maintain tested business-continuity and disaster-recovery plans • Serve as the primary engineering and architecture interface for executive leadership • Translate technical debt, risk, and architectural choices into business outcomes • Lead cross-functional collaboration with product, operations, marketing, and MERL teams

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience • Track record of directly or indirectly managing multi-team organisations of 40+ people, managing through directors • Full-time, hands-on operational leadership in scaling product-led tech environments • Deep experience defining enterprise architecture standards • Experience managing complex distributed systems • Experience leading data infrastructure transformations • Direct experience driving compliance, security governance, and data privacy frameworks, specifically ISO 27001 and local data protection regulations • Exceptional verbal and written European English communication skills • Ability to act as an internal and external technical evangelist • Willingness/ability to work full-time; fractional, part-time, or pure advisory experience will not fit this requirement

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience, location and the agreed scope of the position • Benefits and allowances tailored to your location • Flexible work arrangements, including remote or hybrid options • A personal development budget to invest in your professional growth • Unlimited holiday days to use as you see fit • The opportunity to shape a growing, impactful product and leave your mark on how we work • A culture built on trust, without unnecessary rules or micromanagement