Virtual Chief Information Officer (vCIO)

Staffing Pros, a division of VETS Inc., has an opening with our client for a Virtual Chief Information Officer (vCIO) to support our client onsite in Scottsdale, AZ.

The Virtual Chief Information Officer is the technical strategist who fills the technology leadership gap in a client's environment. The vCIO owns the client's technology strategy and roadmap, sets direction, and translates technical reality into business decisions leadership will act on. Where a client has no technology leadership of its own, the vCIO is that leadership. Where a client has some, the vCIO supplements it.

Responsibilities

• Own the technology roadmap. Accountable for the client's technology plan and the strategic direction it represents.
• Set direction. Work with the client to decide where the environment should go and in what order, aligned to their business goals.
• Translate risk. Turn technical findings into business terms: what is threatened, what it costs, and why it matters now.
• Lead executive engagement. Serve as the client's trusted technology advisor at the leadership level and run the strategic conversation.
• Guide investment and budget planning. Provide leadership during IT budget and technology investment planning.
• Shape discovery into strategy. Incorporate the technical discovery and assessment produced by the delivery team into the roadmap as priorities and direction.
• Surface strategic opportunity. Identify, through the roadmap, where technology can reduce cost, reduce risk, and advance the client's business, and shape those opportunities for the account team to act on.
• Keep the picture current. Maintain an understanding of the client's environment and business so the roadmap stays relevant as both change.

Competencies and qualities

Communication and presence

• Conveys complex technical matters in clear business terms, in writing and in person.
• Articulate, composed, and credible in front of an executive team.
• Holds a point of view; can tell a client a direction is wrong and be believed.

Business acumen

• Connects technology decisions to business outcomes, risk, and cost.
• Leads budget and investment conversations at the leadership level.

Technical literacy

• Technically grounded enough to know what to ask, judge what comes back, and earn the trust of engineers.
• Not required to be the deepest specialist; depth is supplied by the technical delivery function.

Leadership and collaboration

• Builds trusted-advisor relationships with client leadership.
• Works collaboratively across the delivery team and promotes a sense of ownership over client outcomes.

Organization

• Prioritizes effectively, manages time well, and drives roadmaps to completion.

Education, experience, and certifications

• 10+ years in IT or cybersecurity, including meaningful time in a leadership, management, or strategic advisory capacity.
• A technical foundation combined with business or management experience; comfortable advising executive stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience building technology roadmaps and leading IT strategy and budget planning.
• Working knowledge of the compliance landscape (HIPAA, PCI DSS, CJIS, CMMC, GLBA) and its business impact.

Preferred

• Experience in an MSP or MSSP environment.
• Familiarity with security platforms and managed services sufficient to advise on them, rather than to operate them.
• Industry-specific experience relevant to assigned clients.

EEO Statement

Staffing Pros a division of VETS-inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.