Defense Enterprise Chief Technology Officer

Defense Enterprise Chief Technology Officer

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Job Description

Everforth ECS is seeking a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to work in our Fairfax, VA office. The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Defense Enterprise Account is the senior technical architect, sales engineering leader, and technology strategist for a portfolio supporting Department of Defense Fourth Estate agencies and Combatant Commands.

Reporting to the Defense Enterprise Account Portfolio Leader, the CTO operates across growth and delivery, engaging customers, prospective customers, partners, capture teams, and program organizations. The CTO translates mission challenges into differentiated, secure, and executable solutions across:

• Cloud modernization and operations
• Data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning
• Autonomous systems and mission autonomy
• Mission Partner Environments and secure information sharing
• Enterprise IT modernization and cybersecurity

This is a highly visible, hands‑on leadership role. The CTO must be equally effective advising senior customers, shaping a strategic pursuit, developing a solution architecture, presenting at competitive orals, and helping delivery teams resolve complex technical challenges. The successful candidate will combine mission focus, commercial awareness, technical credibility, collaborative leadership, and extreme ownership.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the account technology strategy in alignment with customer missions, market priorities, growth objectives, and company capabilities.
• Maintain an informed view of Fourth Estate and Combatant Command missions, architectures, acquisition priorities, and operational challenges.
• Translate emerging technologies and customer demand signals into offerings, technical roadmaps, qualified opportunities, and investment recommendations.
• Advise the Account Portfolio Leader on technology priorities, capability gaps, partnerships, and technical talent.
• Connect corporate capabilities, intellectual property, solution accelerators, and subject‑matter experts to account needs.

Growth, Capture, and Sales Engineering

• Serve as the senior sales engineer and technical leader for strategic pursuits.
• Partner with growth, business development, capture, and proposal teams to shape opportunities before solicitation release.
• Engage customers to understand mission outcomes, constraints, technical requirements, and acquisition considerations.
• Lead solution architecture, technical volumes, staffing and estimation inputs, demonstrations, white papers, transition strategies, and oral presentations.
• Develop credible discriminators that strengthen competitive positioning and improve win probability.
• Ensure proposed solutions are secure, compliant, scalable, supportable, competitively priced, and executable.
• Evaluate technology and teaming partners based on mission value, technical fit, maturity, interoperability, and risk.
• Provide technical leadership across the account, partnering with program managers, chief engineers, architects, and delivery teams.
• Conduct reviews of strategic programs to assess architecture, security, performance, scalability, technical debt, and modernization opportunities.
• Support resolution of complex technical issues, recovery of challenged efforts, and execution of major platform transitions.
• Maintain continuity between capture and delivery by guiding technical transition from proposed solution through startup and operations.
• Promote reuse of architectures, automation, engineering patterns, data products, and lessons learned across programs.
• Ensure solutions account for classified, multi‑enclave, coalition, tactical, edge, and disconnected operating environments.
• Balance innovation with mission resilience, cybersecurity, accreditation, affordability, and operational sustainment.

Architecture, Innovation, and Solution Quality

• Establish account standards for solution architecture, technical reviews, engineering documentation, and design assurance.
• Develop reusable reference architectures across cloud, Data and AI, autonomy, Mission Partner Environments,