Chief Technological Officer

Lagos
February 9, 2026
₦1,500,000 - ₦2,000,000 / month
Full Time
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Job Description

An Infotech organisation is seeking an experienced Chief Technological Officer to lead technology strategy, pre-sales architecture, and enterprise solution design across Communication & Connectivity, Data Centre Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Managed Services. This is a senior leadership role focused on driving competitive technical solutions, strengthening OEM partnerships, and ensuring successful project delivery.

Key Responsibilities
Technology Strategy & Solution Leadership

  • Define solution strategy and technology roadmap across networking, data centre, cybersecurity, and managed services.
  • Develop and maintain reusable solution architectures, reference designs, and standardised bills of materials.
  • Ensure solutions align with OEM best practices, industry standards, and customer requirements.
  • Guide adoption of cloud, hybrid architectures, automation, SASE, and modern security frameworks.

Sales Engineering & Pre-Sales Leadership

  • Lead the pre-sales function to deliver high-quality technical proposals, solution designs, and statements of work.
  • Partner with Sales to qualify opportunities, shape customer requirements, and position solutions competitively.
  • Provide senior technical representation in customer meetings, workshops, and executive briefings.
  • Oversee technical bid responses, RFP submissions, and solution costing.

OEM & Partner Management

  • Own strategic relationships with key OEMs including Cisco, Fortinet, VMware, Ribbon, and similar partners.
  • Drive partner competency attainment, joint go-to-market initiatives, and technical enablement.
  • Manage escalation paths with OEMs for solution design, support, and certification requirements.

Delivery Alignment & Solution Assurance

  • Collaborate with Delivery Leads to ensure solutions are implementable, scalable, and cost-effective.
  • Provide solution assurance during project kick-off and major milestones.
  • Support resolution of complex technical issues impacting customer satisfaction or project outcomes.
  • Ensure smooth handover from pre-sales to delivery teams.

People Leadership & Capability Development

  • Lead and develop Solutions Architecture and Pre-Sales Engineering teams.
  • Build technical capability through structured learning paths, certifications, and OEM training.
  • Set performance goals, coach team members, and build succession pipelines.
  • Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and customer-centricity.

Governance, Documentation & Quality

  • Maintain solution documentation, architecture standards, and technical governance processes.
  • Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and OEM requirements.
  • Improve the quality of proposals, designs, and customer-facing technical materials.

Required Experience & Qualifications

  • 12+ years of experience in enterprise technology including networking, data centre, and cybersecurity.
  • 5+ years in pre-sales, solutions architecture, or technical leadership roles.
  • Proven experience leading technical teams such as solutions architects, pre-sales engineers, or practice leads.
  • Strong background designing enterprise network, data centre, and security solutions.
  • Demonstrated success engaging C-level stakeholders and supporting complex sales cycles.
  • Experience working with major OEMs including Cisco, Fortinet, VMware, and similar partners.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Relevant certifications strongly preferred: CCNP/CCIE, NSE, VCP, AWS/Azure, ITIL, CISSP.

Preferred Experience

  • Experience in managed services solutioning and ITSM frameworks.
  • Exposure to automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible, observability platforms, and cloud-native architectures.
  • Experience developing repeatable offerings or productised solutions.
  • Familiarity with telco, large enterprise, or data centre transformation projects.

Core Competencies

  • Strong commercial and customer-facing presence.
  • Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
  • Strategic thinking with strong execution discipline.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Team-building and coaching mindset.
  • Calm, structured, and analytical under pressure.

Salary
N1,500,000 – N2,000,000 monthly

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV using Chief Technological Officer as the subject of the email.

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