Chief Technology Officer – Pega ANZ

Job Category: Pre-Sales Consulting

Location: Australia – Melbourne – Remote | Australia – Sydney

Meet Our Team:

Join our disruptive evolution of the software industry as a Client Technology Officer for our Enterprise accounts. Pega is changing the way the world builds software and you will be instrumental in partnering and collaborating directly with our clients to help crush complexity in their organizations.

Picture Yourself at Pega:

As a Client Technology Officer (CTO) reporting directly into the VP for ANZ, you will be responsible for earning trusted advisor status with technology executives at our largest ANZ clients, supporting their efforts on digital innovation, technology transformation, and delivering strategic value. As the technology leader of our client sales team, you will design client roadmaps against business strategies, utilizing knowledge and experience from within a specific industry and across enterprise technology. Financial Services plays a key part so experience with FSI would be great.

What You’ll Do at Pega:

• Partner and collaborate with the extended sales and solution consulting team at a premier client account where Pega is striving to deliver large business transformation.

• Engage with and assist CxOs in transforming their organisations and providing strategic counsel to CxOs and executives within the digital landscape.

• Utilise personal credibility to gain sponsorship and develop long-term relationships at the C-Level in the target organisation, removing blockers and delivering outcome-based transformation while ensuring that Pega’s value proposition is fully understood. Leverage your knowledge of the industry, market, enterprise technology and strategy, and Pega solutions to be a thought leader and trusted advisor by clients, prospects, and partners, providing perspective and guidance on long-term business/technology strategy, investments, and innovation.

• Develop business and transformation strategies for selected accounts, inclusive of business alignment (the WHY), future state definition and measurements (the WHAT), transformation execution (the HOW) and consistent value realisation (the FOR).

• Advise on strategies for customer-experience transformation; market-entry, marketing growth, industry trends. competitive positioning, and digital innovation in a compelling and engaging fashion.

• Create and promote industry whitepapers, thought leadership assets, peer-to-peer exchanges, and best practices at C-Level.

• Establish Pega labs at the client to seed and nurture continuous innovation.

• Improve client sales team’s effectiveness through leadership and coaching. Challenge status-quo and develop the team’s assertiveness against potential blockers.

• Support account-based marketing initiatives in collaboration with the sales and marketing teams.

• Partner and collaborate directly with Pega’s own Office of the CTO and other global Client Technical Officers at Pega.

Who You Are:

You have developed C-level connections and gained deep insight into the business dynamics of large complex enterprises. You are confident in helping clients to shape their change agendas and guide them to address organisational impacts brought on by technology. You thrive on leveraging your breadth and depth of experience in technology and IT operations and you possess a passion to understand and evangelize current and emerging digital transformation, cloud, and customer engagement-related technology trends. You possess the ability to develop and strengthen relationships with decision makers and influencers in the client organization and to drive technology adoption within the CTO/CIO/CDO technology functions of a client organization.

What You’ve Accomplished:

• Prior experience in a CTO or Chief Architect role (essential)

• Proven experience in driving digital change agendas, including demonstrable experience with Pega technologies and being an expert in accountability and delivery of extremely complex and agile digital transformations.

• ANZ Financial Services industry experience is beneficial for this role

• Breadth and depth of experience in technology and IT Operations with a deep understanding at an executive level of organisational structures, systems, architectures, and a clear understanding of how the industry operates, including regulatory, competitive and market influences that drive decision making.

• Success in an advisory role, advising senior leaders in complex business, operations, and technology topics.

• Success in leading (or major role in) complex, large-scale enterprise implementations and digital transformations.

Pega Offers You:

• Gartner and Forrester Analyst acclaimed technology leadership in a massive emerging market

• The world’s most innovative organizations as referenceable clients.

• Analyst acclaimed technology leadership in a massive emerging market.

• A fast-paced, exciting, collaborative, and rewarding sales environment within innovative industries.

• Competitive salary, bonuses, Pega equity, and Health, TPD and Life insurance

• Hybrid role – Can be Sydney or Melbourne based #LI-CS5

Job ID: 22028

Inclusion and Diversity – Inclusive is one of our values at Pega. Pegasystems is committed to inclusion and diversity and strives to foster a fair and inclusive environment for all. We believe Pega can achieve more when we create a culture that inspires each of us to fully contribute each and every day. We encourage diverse thinking and collaboration for better outcomes for all..

We encourage candidates of all backgrounds and skillsets to consider opportunities at Pega. At Pega, we focus on the skills needed to be successful and we know that our employees can thrive even if they don’t possess a traditional background. If you like the sound of this role, but are not sure if you are the right person, please consider applying. We would love to hear from you!

As anand Affirmative Action employer, Pegasystems will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran or disability status, or any other category protected by law.

Export Compliance – For positions requiring access to technical data subject to export control regulations such as this, Pegasystems may need to obtain export license approval from the U.S. Government and EU Authorities for certain individuals.

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