Company Overview
A Chief IT and Technical Officer (ITTO) is required for an evolving mobile phone manufacturer and telehealthcare service provider. By combining innovations in wearable phones and medical diagnostics, WatchoverMe will deliver care across a broad spectrum of young, working age, pregnant women and elderly consumers.
With our Carrier relationships, Mobile Virtual Network Operator agreements and via mobile phone retail outlets in Europe, USA and India, WatchoverMe reaches out to more than two billion individuals.
The preferred ITTO will have experience of all the IT aspects of running a global business together with knowledge of the academic and corporate environment of creating and realizing new technologies.
Responsibilities
The Chief ITT Officer will oversee the entire IT spectrum including the development and implementation of our websites, its back and front ends, the Wellness Portal and its real-time infographic GUIs; the management of our cellular communications, (supervising other parties skilled in this area), our customer relationship software, purchasing and production computer systems and compliance with European and US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) data protection and encryption systems.
The technology development aspect of the ITTO's work with be to liaise with our academic design, corporate partnership and government funding entities to bring our innovations to market ahead of the competition.
Education and experience
The Chief ITT Officer will have a PhD or MSc in computer science, have full-stack developer experience so as to direct the Front End and be skilled in HTML, CSS, JarvaScript, C C++ and C#, Bootstrap, Foundation, Backbone, AngularJS, and EmberJS software (or their alternatives) and be able to creatively develop data-driven GUIs.
For the Back End server application and database communication he will be skilled in languages such as PHP, Ruby, Python, Java, and .Net to build applications, and, with MySQL, Oracle, and SQL databases – sufficient to implement traditional cloud-based providers such as Google and Microsoft.
Experience with PHP frameworks such as Laravel and Symfony, and version control software such as SVN, CVS, or Git and with Linux as a development and deployment system is preferred. However, WatchoverMe' latest release has an Android 16, Google Mobile Services (GMS) compliant operating system where specific compliance is required. The ITTO will liaise with the current Android-GMS Chief Software Officer to achieve this.Reporting to
The Chief ITTO will report to the CEO, present to the Board and co-present to investors as WatchOverMe pursues a £12m pitch.
Benefits
Remuneration will include an appropriate start-up-Company salary, rising to a £165k performance-driven salary. This is stock option and main Board opportunity where the ITTO will qualify for options with generous annual dividends where on a 2030 exit his or her shareholding can reasonably be expected to be valued at ~£5m, subject to Company's valuation.
Location
During the current new funding pitch, the ITTO will work from home; post funding, attendance at the Company's offices in Rochester, Kent and Battle, East Sussex will be required.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £60,538.19-£157,131.49 per year
Benefits:
* Company car
* Company pension
* Employee stock ownership plan
* Private medical insurance
* Profit sharing
Work Location: In person