Chief Technology Officer

AO1 Holdings, Inc. (d/b/a Player’s Health) has an opening for a Chief Technology Officer in Edina, MN (Remote Working/Teleworking Benefits Available - can work from anywhere in the U.S.)

Duties are to be responsible for high performance, fine grained micro service development. Responsibilities include designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical business systems/application services and modules. Delivering high-availability and performance. Must contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including writing well designed, testable, efficient code.

Responsibilities (are inclusive of but not limited to):

• Architecting, designing, and developing highly scalable systems.
• Responsible for working with business and technology organizations to align business requirements,architect solutions that will integrate across Players Health technology organizations.

• Lead development team in all aspects of the software development lifecycle using test drivendevelopment methodology including detail design and development, unit testing, supporting QA, UATand regression testing.

• Lead solutions that will be deployed in hybrid cloud environment with Azure first strategy.
• Lead development team of employees and contractors with detail design, development and implementation of technology solutions using microservices to modify existing architecture orimplement new architecture.

• Lead team in creating and providing system and user documents in support of this deliverable to include updated versions of design, process flow diagram, API specification, and error description.
• Develop technical aspects of the PlayersHealth strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals.
• Discover and implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage.
• Help departments use technology profitably.
• Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors.
• Work with the leadership team to set clear priorities and goals for IT management and production, balancing the long-term and immediate needs.
• Manage strategic vendor and technology partner relationships.
• Define the company’s overall technology strategy to support business objectives.
• Develop the Target state architecture as well as the Business architecture.
• Make infrastructure decisions, ensuring technical excellence, versatility, safety and soundness, resiliency and scalability in the architecting and engineering of product solutions, as well as
• managing all technical delivery.
• Ensure tight collaboration across departments to drive strategic initiatives, including understanding of the alignment between technology strategy and various technology road maps.
• Ensure strong department leadership with skills in strategic planning, goal setting, processes development, budgeting, and creating opportunities for professional development within
• technology teams.
• Ensure excellent communication, leadership, and strategic thinking abilities with a problem-solving aptitude.
• Ensure Solid understanding of broad technology trends and the ability to align innovation with business goals.
• Ensure Strong communication with ability to convey technical topics in easy-to-understand business terms and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and external partners.
• Ensure Strategic smarts acumen, including the ability to identify new opportunities, drive clarity, create focus, and make tough decisions in complex and dynamic contexts.
• Ensure Ability to track and identify new technologies to solve complex business issues.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field. Will accept higher degree in Comp. Science, Software Engg, or related field but not a min requirement. Foreign equivalent degree accepted. Plus 5 years experience as a Software Engineer/Software Developer, Systems Architect, or related position building complex consumer facing web based applications.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• 6 months of experience in a supervisory/lead role.
• 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer/Microservices Engineer etc. in a consumer-facing applications.
• 4 years of Java development experience with Java-based Micro-services
• 2 years of experience in Service Oriented Architecture/ Micro services-based applications
• 3 years of experience in RESTful web services.
• 2 years of experience working in Cloud Engineering or Infrastructure like AWS/Azure, SQL, and RDBMS database design.
• 4 years of experience with code versioning tools (Example: git/bitbucket etc.).
• 4 years of experience with frameworks and implementation like Spring framework/ SpringBoot framework.
• 2 years of experience with front-end technologies like Angular, and JavaScript.
• 4 years of experience with logging/ monitoring/ debugging and testing.
• 5 years performing Object Oriented analysis/design using common design patterns.
• 2 years of experience in software architecture.
• 2 years of managing projects.

Comprehensive benefits package, including PTO, Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, STD, LTD, Vol/Basic Life Insurance. HSA, Parental Leave, EAP and 401K is offered. Annual Salary Scale: $ 206,398-255000. 5% to 10% short-term Domestic Travel is Required. Apply through our career site: https://playershealth.bamboohr.com/careers: