Chief Technical Officer

Summary

Join Moodle, the world's most popular learning platform, as a highly experienced technical leader! Reporting to the CEO, this unique, work-from-anywhere role (based anywhere in Europe) offers significant challenges and opportunities to drive technical excellence across Moodle's global internal operations. You will ensure the resilience, security, and scalability of the technical ecosystem, guide data and cybersecurity strategies, lead a high-performance team, and oversee global operations. This brand-new position allows for future growth and the chance to make a significant impact. Moodle offers a flexible, distributed role with a fantastic range of benefits focused on work-life balance and wellbeing.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in senior leadership roles within technology organisations, preferably in an open-source environment, with a proven track record of success in managing globally distributed teams
• Understanding of, and appreciation for, open source technologies and their usage in corporate environments
• Technical experience in cybersecurity, data management, cloud computing, virtualisation and hosting infrastructure
• Experience in translating strategic plans into technology strategy and roadmaps
• Advanced people leadership experience and communication skills, with the ability to develop and inspire high performance, and promote a strong workplace culture

Responsibilities

• Ensure the resilience, security and scalability of our business’s technical ecosystem, fostering innovation and aligning technical initiatives with Moodle’s goals
• Guide the future direction of our data and cybersecurity strategies
• Attract, develop and lead a high performance team
• Oversee the operations of our InfoSec, ICT DevOps and DataOps teams globally
• Participate as a member of our senior leadership team, providing input into and supporting achievement of company goals and strategic objectives

Preferred Qualifications

An understanding of Moodle and the Moodle ecosystem

Benefits

• Taking on a genuinely flexible, distributed role, working from anywhere in Spain, with access to our centrally based Barcelona office
• A fantastic range of benefits, focusing on work-life balance, wellbeing and ‘choosing your own adventure.’