CTO with DevSecOps for Health Tech Industry
Job Location: Ahmedabad
Reported by: Team of 70 - (Software & Design, Product team and R&D (4)
Reporting to: Promoter /Director
JOB DETAILS :
Domain & Experience Requirements:
- 12+ years engineering; 5+ years Senior Technology Leadership (CTO, VP Engg, CIO).
- Demonstrated success in healthcare / wellness / fitness SaaS or medical-device Integration
Role & Responsibilities:
Role Summary:
- Own the end-to-end technology and information stack for our cloud-native HMIS / Tele-health SaaS platform.
- Provide visionary architectural leadership (system, application, cloud, and data), harden security & compliance.
- Create a hands-on, jovial, ownership-driven engineering culture, and deliver new AI-powered products at startup velocity-while scaling to the level of a nationwide public-health utility.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architecture Leadership - Define & evolve System, Application, Cloud and Database architectures for a multi-tenant, high-availability SaaS platform; maintain direct involvement in the product roadmap.
- Cloud & Infrastructure - Own cloud cost, performance and DR across two GCP regions; manage internal IT (laptops, SASE, MDM) with zero-trust controls.
- AI / ML Enablement - Embed AI/ML capabilities (ASR + RAG summarisation, anomaly detection) into HMIS modules; evaluate and productionise new models.
- Security, Risk & Compliance - Lead ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, NABH compliance; enforce DevSecOps, threat-modelling, pen-testing and vulnerability management.
- Product Documentation & SDLC - Set up and enforce a seamless SDLC establish and audit SOPs; ensure every service, run-book and recovery plan is documented.
- People & Culture - Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement; keep teams motivated and jovial; coach by example on the dev floor.
- Pre-Sales & Client Engagement - Partner with the sales team to design solution demos, proofs of-concept and technical bid responses; engage directly with C-suite stakeholders at prospective hospitals to gather requirements and position the platform's value proposition.
- Stakeholder & Vendor Management - Translate clinical requirements into epics; present tech OKRs to the Board; manage cloud, AI
Technical Expertise & Expectations:
- Holistic Architecture Leadership - Shape system, application, cloud, and data architectures that stay performant, maintainable, and cost-eIicient as the platform scales.
- SaaS Platform Stewardship - Guide the evolution of a multi-tenant, always-on health-technology product, balancing feature delivery with platform reliability.
- Hands-On Engineering - Stay close to the code: review pull requests, troubleshoot production issues, and mentor engineers through practical example.
- Product Partnership - Convert business and clinical requirements into clear technical roadmaps and measurable engineering objectives.
- AI / ML Awareness - Identify pragmatic opportunities to embed data-driven and AI capabilities that enhance clinical workflows and user experience.
- Process & SDLC Ownership - Establish robust DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and documentation practices that keep releases predictable and secure.
- Security, Risk & Compliance Oversight - Maintain a proactive security posture, comprehensive SOPs, and continuous compliance with relevant healthcare and data-protection standards.
- Health Interoperability Standards - Knowledge of FHIR, DICOM, SNOMED CT, HL7, and related standards is highly desirable.
- Technology Foresight - Monitor emerging trends, assess their relevance, and pilot new tools or patterns that can strengthen the platform.
- Embedded Systems & Hardware Insight - Knowledge of firmware, IoT, or medical-device hardware development is seen as a distinguishing factor.
Personal Qualities:
- Ownership mentality - treats uptime, cost and code quality as personal responsibilities.
- Methodical planner - works to clear quarterly and sprint plans; avoids scope drift.
- Visible, hands-on leader - is present on the dev floor; white-boards solutions, joins incident calls.
- Jovial motivator - energises stand-ups, celebrates wins, runs hack-days.
Qualification :
- Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. MBA or advanced healthcare-related qualification is a plus.
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