Chief Technology Officer

About Innovas
At Innovas, we are transforming the way government innovates by delivering the mechanisms that turn ideas into action. We bring together the right people, processes, and technologies to accelerate progress where it matters most.
With a focus on impact over bureaucracy, collaboration over silos, and solutions over status quo, we we're built to act. Our team is made up of passionate problem-solvers, innovators, and experts who thrive on tackling meaningful challenges and delivering results. At Innovas, every role contributes to something bigger. Whether you’re supporting technology acquisition, improving processes, or enabling collaboration across organizations, your work helps move critical missions forward.
Join Innovas and help shape the future of government innovation.
Why Work At Innovas
Work on problems that matter.
At Innovas, your work directly supports innovation that shapes our nation’s future and delivers solutions with real-world impact.
Be part of something built differently.
Our teams are empowered to focus on solving problems, creating value, and exceeding expectations.
Bring ideas to life.
Work alongside passionate problem-solvers who thrive on tackling complex challenges and turning possibilities into progress.
Grow alongside a team of experts.
Our people bring diverse experiences from government, military, industry, technology, and entrepreneurship.
Job Description
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) sets and leads the technology strategy that powers the next generation of government innovation. This is an opportunity to build technology capabilities, products, and platforms that remove barriers between innovative ideas and critical solutions that support our clients' missions.
As Innovas grows, the CTO will advance the current internal technology environment while developing market changing external products, platforms, and capabilities that shape its future. The CTO provides executive leadership across enterprise applications, product development & engineering, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity & internal IT, infrastructure, data strategy, and systems integration. Working closely with executive leadership and business stakeholders, this role develops technology capabilities that improve organizational performance, accelerate product innovation, strengthen cybersecurity, and deliver secure, scalable solutions for government customers and employees. The CTO ensures technology investments align with business strategy, protects Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), and positions the company for long-term growth.
The successful candidate is an executive builder with a demonstrated ability to lead multiple technology disciplines and attract and develop exceptional talent. They bring strong business acumen and experience managing technology investments, budgets, and resources in support of strategic priorities and profitable growth. The ideal candidate leads with accountability and a willingness to roll up their sleeves to deliver results.
Executive Technology Leadership and Strategy
Develop and execute an enterprise-wide technology strategy that supports organizational growth, operational efficiency, and long-term scalability.
Provide executive guidance on technology investments, modernization priorities, and digital transformation initiatives.
Own technology budgeting, investment planning, and resource allocation, evaluating build, buy, partner, or acquire options through cost, ROI, capacity, risk, and long-term value analysis to determine the best use of company resources.
Build, mentor, and oversee high-performing teams across all internal and external technology functions including enterprise applications, product development & engineering, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity & internal IT.
Manage relationships with technology vendors, SaaS providers, MSPs, and system integrators, and support contract evaluation, renewal strategy, licensing optimization, and cost management.
Work with executive team to strengthen cross-functional engagement and drive organization-wide adoption of technology and security practices.
Provide coaching, development, and clear expectations to ensure operational excellence and professional growth.
The CTO Is Accountable For Building And Leading The Technology Organization, Establishing Strong Functional Leadership, And Ensuring The Performance And Success Of The Following Teams And Capabilities
Product Development & AI Strategy
Partner with Product, Innovation, Growth, and business leaders to evaluate new product opportunities, determine technical feasibility and investment requirements, and move solutions from concept through deployment.
Lead software engineering, overseeing technical architecture, application development, DevOps, QA and testing, and the release and production support lifecycle.
Establish engineering standards, development practices, release management, documentation, and technology governance across all product lines.
Define and execute the company’s AI strategy, identifying opportunities to embed AI into products, enterprise platforms, and internal operations.
Establish the architecture, data, security, governance, and development standards required to deploy AI capabilities in government environments.
Enterprise Systems, Infrastructure, & Data Governance
Lead enterprise system implementations, including CRM, ERP/finance, CLM, member platforms, and program management systems.
Establish enterprise standards for system architecture, resilience, performance, and service continuity.
Oversee integration strategy using APIs, middleware, automation frameworks, and MDM principles to maintain a single source of truth.
Partner with operations on change management, system sustainability, documentation, and operational performance across all major platforms.
Build and maintain secure and scalable data environments, including an enterprise data lake, data warehouses, and reporting ecosystems.
Define and enforce data governance standards covering taxonomy, metadata, lineage, retention, and quality.
Ensure data architecture supports analytics, forecasting, reporting, and emerging AI-enabled capabilities.
Cybersecurity, Compliance & Risk Management
Lead the company’s cybersecurity program, including policy development, identity and access controls, vulnerability management, and continuous monitoring.
Ensure compliance with federal frameworks, including NIST 800-171, CUI handling, DFARS requirements, CMMC readiness, and FedRAMP-aligned controls.
Develop systems and processes to manage classified data as required.
Own technology and cybersecurity risk management in alignment with federal and contractual requirements.
Oversee incident response, audit preparation, third-party security evaluations, and remediation planning.
Serve as the primary liaison with auditors, compliance consultants, and government technology representatives.
Internal IT & Employee Support
Lead internal IT operations and employee technology support, including help desk, service delivery, Microsoft 365 administration, cloud environments, network administration, and endpoint management.
Oversee employee technology onboarding and offboarding, account provisioning, device deployment, access management, and IT ticket escalation.
Establish service standards, SLAs, escalation procedures, and support processes that ensure responsive and reliable employee technology support.
Own endpoint and device management, including configuration, security, patching, monitoring, and ongoing administration.
Oversee IT asset management and the full asset lifecycle, including procurement, inventory, assignment, maintenance, replacement, recovery, and disposition.
Ensure business continuity, disaster recovery readiness, infrastructure reliability, and long-term modernization of the employee technology environment.
Qualifications
Must be a U.S. citizen with an ability to obtain security clearance.
Education Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
Experience And Skills
15+ years of progressive technology leadership, including experience as a CTO, CIO, or senior technology executive leading and scaling multidisciplinary technology organizations.
Proven success building technology teams and capabilities through significant organizational growth, maintaining an entrepreneurial, hands-on approach while establishing the structure required to scale.
Demonstrated ownership of enterprise technology strategy, budgets, investment priorities, workforce planning, and resource allocation.
Proven expertise evaluating and executing build, buy, partner, or acquire strategies, including technology due diligence, M&A integration, and investment analysis.
Strong business and financial acumen with the ability to connect technology investments and resource decisions to growth, profitability, customer value, and long-

Work arrangement
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