Chief Technology Officer

Barrington James

Netherlands

Hybrid

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

25+ days holiday

Long-term incentives

Job summary

An innovative healthcare technology firm is seeking an experienced Chief Technology Officer to lead the technical strategy of a global healthcare data platform. The role involves modernizing architecture, integrating AI capabilities, and overseeing a high-performing engineering team. Applicants should have deep expertise in healthcare data, cloud-native engineering, and strong strategic judgment. This position offers a full-time contract with long-term incentives and a comprehensive benefits package, including 25+ days holiday.

Qualifications

Proven CTO or senior technology leadership experience in Healthcare SaaS.
Expertise in XDS/XCA, FHIR, CDR/openEHR/OMOP.
Experience delivering globally compliant health platforms.
Mastery of cloud-native engineering and modern observability tools.
Ability to mentor and represent the organization externally.

Responsibilities

Define and execute a multi-year technical strategy.
Lead and mentor engineering teams across multiple locations.
Drive the evolution of the global healthcare data platform.
Ensure scalability, security, and reliability in architecture.
Champion best data security and regulatory compliance practices.

Skills

Cloud-native engineering

Regulatory and compliance expertise

Strong strategic judgment

Inspirational leadership

Deep healthcare data expertise

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Direct message the job poster from Barrington James

Recruitment Manager - Artificial Intelligence at Barrington James

Are you a visionary technology leader passionate about transforming healthcare? I am seeking a Chief Technology Officer to lead a high-performing engineering organization and shape the future of global healthcare data exchange.

My client are building a global platform for healthcare data availability. Their mission is to simplify and secure access to health data across the entire ecosystem—empowering better, faster, and more connected care.

As CTO, you will define and execute the technical strategy for this global platform. You’ll modernize the architecture, embed AI at scale, and take on complex challenges involving diverse healthcare processes, heterogeneous EHR implementations, and fragmented data standards and regulations. You will lead, mentor, and grow a world‑class engineering team, fostering innovation while ensuring the platform remains robust, scalable, and secure. You will also serve as the organization’s external technology representative.

Responsibilities

Define and deliver a multi‑year technical strategy aligned with the organization’s mission.
Lead, mentor, and expand engineering teams across multiple locations (including the Netherlands and India).
Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence.
Drive the design and evolution of a layered global healthcare data availability platform.
Ensure simplicity, scalability, security, and reliability in all architectural decisions.
Bring expertise in XDS, FHIR, openEHR/OMOP/CDR, and prepare the platform for EHDS and global regulatory compliance.
Integrate AI capabilities such as automated data mapping, semantic normalization, and real‑time inference.
Balance fast‑paced AI experimentation with enterprise‑grade reliability and compliance.
Partner closely with Product leadership to align technical decisions with market priorities.
Represent the organization at industry conferences and standards bodies (e.g., HL7, IHE).
Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, ensuring high quality and rapid delivery.
Champion best practices in data security, privacy, and global regulatory compliance.
Stay ahead of emerging healthcare standards and technologies, including ML/AI, FHIR, HL7, DICOM, and SNOMED.
Drive continuous innovation that advances the platform’s global leadership.

About you

Proven CTO or senior technology leadership experience within a Healthcare SaaS or platform organization.
Deep healthcare data expertise, including XDS/XCA, FHIR (v4+), CDR/openEHR/OMOP, and multi‑modal clinical data domains.
Regulatory and compliance insight, with a track record of delivering globally compliant health platforms (EHDS experience is a plus).
Cloud‑native engineering mastery, including Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/GCP/Azure, and modern observability tools.
Strong strategic judgment, especially around build vs. partner vs. buy decisions.
Inspirational leadership, with the ability to mentor teams, drive alignment, and represent the organization externally with credibility and clarity.
Long‑term incentives.
25+ days holiday.

Following your application, Joe Templeman, a specialist AI Recruiter will discuss the opportunity with you in detail.

He will be more than happy to answer any questions relating to the industry and the potential for your career growth. The conversation can also progress further to discussing other opportunities, which are also available right now or will be imminently becoming available.

This position has been highly popular, and it is likely that it will close prematurely. We recommend applying as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Please click ‘apply’ or contact Joe Templeman for any further information.

Joe Templeman
Recruitment Manager – Barrington James

Seniority level