CTO Architect: Cloud Modernization & AI Leader

Insight Global

Phoenix (AZ)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a highly technical Chief Technology Officer to lead enterprise technology modernization initiatives while building and mentoring a high-performing engineering organization. This leader will serve as the technical anchor for the organization, balancing strategic technology leadership with hands-on engineering expertise.

The CTO will drive cloud adoption, mainframe modernization, automation initiatives, operational excellence, and technical innovation while enabling the

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of progressive technical experience across cloud, infrastructure, networking, systems engineering, architecture, or software engineering.
  • 4+ years of technical leadership experience.
  • Strong expertise with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering practices.
  • Strong networking, automation, observability, and enterprise architecture experience.
  • Experience leading large-scale modernization initiatives.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Proven track record developing and mentoring technical teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead enterprise architecture, cloud modernization, and infrastructure strategy
  • Serve as the highest-level technical escalation point for critical architecture and engineering decisions
  • Design and maintain secure, scalable cloud-native and hybrid environments
  • Drive modernization efforts across legacy applications, infrastructure, and operational processes
  • Establish and mature engineering, DevOps, SRE, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices
  • Build, mentor, and develop engineers, architects, and technical leaders
  • Partner with executive leadership to align technology investments with business priorities
  • Support STARS modernization, mainframe migration, and AI initiatives
  • Manage relationships with implementation partners and vendors while maintaining strong internal ownership
  • Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve organizational efficiency
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and innovation

Skills

Cloud architectures
Technical leadership
DevOps / SRE
Networking / Observability
Automation / IaC
Stakeholder mgmt
Mentoring teams

Tools

CI/CD pipelines
DevOps practices
SRE practices
Terraform
Kubernetes

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a highly technical Chief Technology Officer to lead enterprise technology modernization initiatives while building and mentoring a high-performing engineering organization. This leader will serve as the technical anchor for the organization, balancing strategic technology leadership with hands-on engineering expertise.

The CTO will drive cloud adoption, mainframe modernization, automation initiatives, operational excellence, and technical innovation while enabling the

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