Travel: Minimal | Primarily Johannesburg-based
Company: StatusNeo
StatusNeo is strengthening its Retail & Healthcare Consulting Practice and is looking for a Consulting CTO to anchor and lead our Johannesburg operations.
This role is designed for a hands-on, modern technology leader who can shape and deliver large-scale digital platforms across web, mobile, cloud, data, and AI-enabled ecosystemswhile remaining deeply embedded with local teams and programs.
This is a Johannesburg-first role.Travel is limited and exception-based, not routine. The Consulting CTO is expected to be present, accessible, and hands-on with teams and stakeholders in Johannesburg.
- What You Will DoServe as the Consulting CTO for large retail and healthcare transformation programs
- Own technology vision, architecture, and execution across digital platforms
- Lead initiatives spanning:
- Omnichannel web & mobile experiences
- Digital commerce, pharmacy, and healthcare platforms
- Enterprise modernization to cloud-native architectures
- Make architectural decisions across:
- Frontend, backend, APIs, integration, and data layers
- Build and scale high-calibre local engineering and architecture teams
- Act as a trusted technology advisor to senior business and digital leaders
- Stay hands-on where it mattersdesign reviews, critical builds, and delivery decisions
- Collaborate with StatusNeos global leadership while remaining Johannesburg-centric
- Travel & Location Expectations (Important)This role is primarily Johannesburg-based
- Very limited travelonly when strategically required
- Day-to-day leadership, delivery, and decision-making happens on the ground
- Ideal for leaders who prefer deep ownership over constant travel
This is a new-age CTO role, not a legacy IT leadership position.
- Experience1218+ years in technology leadership roles
- Background as a CTO, Head of Engineering, Principal Architect, or Consulting Technology Leader
- Strong experience delivering large-scale retail, healthcare, or consumer digital platforms
- Proven success in enterprise consulting and complex delivery environments
Web & Mobile
- Modern frontend frameworks (React, Angular, Next.js)
- Native and cross-platform mobile (iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native)
- Java / Spring Boot, Node.js, .NET Core
- Microservices, API-first and event-driven architectures
- Strong cloud experience (AWS preferred)
- Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, GitOps
- Reliability, scalability, and performance engineering
- Modern data platforms and analytics ecosystems
- Practical understanding of AI-driven use cases (personalization, forecasting, automation)
- Clear ability to distinguish real value from hype
- Strong appreciation of security, privacy, and regulatory considerations in retail and healthcare
- Leadership DNABuilder mindsetyou have designed and shipped real systems
- Comfortable being both strategic and hands-on
- Strong communicator with business and technology leaders
- Proven people leader who can mentor and scale teams
- Calm, decisive, and credible in high-impact environments
- Compensation, Relocation & SupportTop-of-market compensation aligned to Johannesburg standards
- Full relocation and visa support
- Opportunity to build and lead a strategic regional practice
- Long-term growth within a fast-scaling global consulting firm
- Why StatusNeoAI-native, product-engineering-led consulting firm
- Global enterprise impact with strong local ownership
- Focus on real transformation
- High trust, high accountability, high impact culture
If you are a hands-on technology leader who wants to build, lead, and own retail and healthcare digital platformswhile being firmly grounded in Johannesburgthis role is for you.
Apply via StatusNeo's LinkedIn or share your resume at shilpi.varma@statusneo.com
