Chief Technology Officer

Chief Technology Officer - ( 230000N8 )

**Description**

Grow with the best. Join a smart, innovative, and inspired team that strives for thought leadership, growth, technical and operational excellence. Bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and expertise, our 26,000 team members in over 400 locations worldwide are vital to making our company stronger.

**Your Opportunity**

Stantec is a publicly traded multi-sector firm of architects, engineers, and scientists, that has been partnering with our clients for more than 60 years to improve the quality of life around the world. We operate with the strength of a $4B per year company paired with the agility of an established practice that has delivered some of the most iconic and cutting-edge projects around the world. This proud legacy has fostered a culture of innovation and safety, leading our team to design some of the world’s most impactful projects—projects vital to both local and global communities.

Stantec’s digital and technology teams have over 200 staff dispersed geographically and functionally across the company. These teams have grown organically in recent years, achieving great success in supporting our digital transformation. In response to our continued growth, we are looking for a **Chief Technology Officer** who wants to be part of a purpose-driven organization focused on helping our clients, colleagues and communities thrive. Reporting into Stantec’s Chief Growth and Innovation Officer (CGIO), this newly established position will provide direct leadership to our digital and technology teams and will play an integral role in continuing to add technology value to clients and communities, while driving delivery effectiveness and shareholder value.

People are Stantec’s most valuable resource, and in joining our team you will be able to leverage your experience in the commercialization and monetization of digital products, tools, and emerging technology to lead Stantec’s digital evolution geographically and organizationally, in a way that meaningfully grows Stantec’s gross revenue.

**Your Responsibilities**
- Our **Externally** facing team focused on developing and delivering digital products and services for commercialization, and
- Our **Internally** facing team that provide digital and emerging technology support to our core businesses (that is, to win and execute our traditional work) and to develop tools for internal use to drive efficiency and to create monetizable value.

Across both groups, the Chief Technology Officer will undertake activities that:

- Work closely with the key stakeholders Stantec’s five Business Operating Units (BOUs), our Innovation Office and our sales channel partners, to support the commercialization of digital products and services and new technologies for Stantec’s go-to-mass-market strategies
- Work collaboratively with Stantec’s digital practice groups across Stantec’s BOUs, Global Operations and our Innovation Office, to maintain capabilities across our digital practice areas which include data analytics, design/delivery and automation, geospatial analytics, project and program information management systems, visualization, and digital development
- Minimize risk to Stantec’s digital brand, create and adopt common product development principles, processes, tools, platforms, and governance by providing a consistent approach to integrating commercial digital products into each of Stantec’s BOUs and Business Lines
- Develop a roadmap for achieving material revenue and EBITDA growth from Stantec’s commercially offered emergent technology and digital products and services
- Create dedicated technical, development, and support teams that are scalable and lead those teams towards the success of the products that will be brought to market
- Drive organizational maturity by providing clarity of roles and career pathing for various disciplines
- Work closely with Stantec IT partners to achieve greater agility, consistency reliability, scalability, sustainability, and security
- Ensure these digital practice areas remain agile and responsible to the need of their clients, while also achieving efficiency of standardization through a central depository of talent and capability
- Research and deploy emergent promising technologies that can help increase the company’s competitive advantage and avoid disruptive threats
- Assist Stantec’s various sectors to use technology effectively to increase margin by lowering overhead costs
- Identify strategic partnerships to help enable organizational growth
- Set the direction for the programming languages, frameworks and methodologies in use and ensure consistent standards are applied across the entire company
- Build networks of people, technologies, and ideas far outside of Stantec, constantly scanning the landscape to identify possible acquisitions or partners that can provide complementary capabilities.

**Qualifications*