Field CTO

About this role

This is a full-time, permanent opportunity for candidates based in the United States and authorised to work without sponsorship , with a preference for those located on the East Coast .

About Nearform

Nearform is an independent team of data & AI experts, engineers, and designers who build intelligent digital solutions and capability at pace. We create AI-enabled solutions that enhance digital experiences, empower developers, and deliver measurable results. In these ways, we partner with ambitious enterprises to deliver enduring impact.

Our deep expertise in solving the world’s most complex digital problems, along with our collaborative, people-first approach, enables enterprises to build breakthrough products and modernise legacy systems by unleashing the power of AI.

Today, our team of 500 experts in 20+ countries is trusted by leading enterprises including Lululemon, Puma, Sun Life, Starbucks, Travelex, Virgin Media 02, and Walmart.

About the Field CTO role

The Field CTO plays a critical role in helping enterprise organisations define and execute modern transformation strategies centred around AI, modern software engineering and digital product innovation.

This is a highly strategic, client-facing leadership role focused on executive advisory, solution shaping and market development. The successful candidate will work closely with senior business and technology stakeholders to identify where AI can create measurable business value, modernise enterprise technology landscapes, and reshape customer and operational experiences.

You will combine commercial acumen, strategic thinking and deep engineering credibility to help clients evolve from traditional digital transformation programmes toward intelligent, AI-enabled enterprises.

The ideal candidate is naturally curious, commercially minded and deeply customer-focused. They are equally comfortable leading executive discussions on AI strategy and organisational change as they are engaging deeply with architects, engineers and delivery teams on implementation approaches.

Core Responsibilities

AI Strategy

• Advise enterprise customers on how to adopt and operationalise AI in ways that create measurable business impact

• Lead executive workshops and discovery engagements focused on new digital products, AI strategy, AI use case identification & prioritisation

• Help organisations identify high-value AI opportunities across customer experience, operations, software delivery, modernization and internal platforms

• Tailor AI conversations and narratives based on the enterprise's current AI maturity curve.

Strategic Advisory & Executive Engagement

• Build trusted relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and senior business stakeholders, serving as their technical advisor.

• Facilitate strategic conversations around innovation, modernisation and emerging technology adoption

• Translate complex business and technology challenges into actionable solution roadmaps, working closely with experts in data, AI, design, and engineering

• Help clients define measurable business outcomes and success metrics, and build a business case for investment in strategic initiatives

Solution Strategy & Modern Engineering

• Collaborate with engineering, product, design and delivery teams to define differentiated, scalable and commercially viable solutions

• Show deep expertise in the techniques and methodologies of agentic engineering

• Drive modernisation approaches that improve agility, resilience, speed to market and customer outcomes

• Ensure solution strategies align to modern engineering principles, platform thinking and scalable delivery models

Growth & Commercial Leadership

• Support the growth of strategic customer accounts by acting as a trusted, vendor-agnostic technology advisor to the C-suite, identifying expansion and long-term growth strategies in collaboration with sales leadership

• Shape strategic pursuits, proposals and large-scale opportunities across AI, modernisation and digital transformation

• Develop compelling business cases and outcome narratives that clearly articulate ROI, operational impact and strategic value

Market Development & Thought Leadership

• Contribute to Nearform’s market propositions, strategic partnerships and thought leadership across AI and modern engineering

• Help shape new offerings and go-to-market strategies based on evolving enterprise customer needs

• Represent Nearform externally through workshops, events, industry conversations and strategic customer engagements

Experience & Capabilities

Consulting & Executive Advisory

• Significant experience in consulting technology leadership or enterprise technology services

• Proven ability to engage and influence senior technology and business leaders

• Experience shaping strategic transformation initiatives and complex services engagements

• Strong commercial instincts with the ability to connect technology strategy to business value

• Comfortable operating in fast-moving, ambiguous and high-growth environments

AI & Modern Technology

• Strong understanding of the practical application of AI within enterprise environments

• Hands-on experience with solution architecture, software architecture, cloud platforms, and AI native software engineering practices.

• Expertise in cloud-native architecture on one of AWS, Azure, or GCP

• Strong foundation in software engineering, with working proficiency in at least one programming language

• Ability to explain complex concepts to less or non-technical audiences

• Experience rapidly developing proof-of-concepts, prototypes and reference architectures during a sales cycle

Experience across areas such as:

• AI-enabled software delivery and developer productivity

• Enterprise AI adoption

• Cloud-native engineering and platform modernisation

• Digital product development and customer experience

• DevOps, platform engineering and SRE

• Data platforms, analytics

• Open-source technologies

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