Chief Technology Officer

About ZentavorZentavor is a specialized engineering partner bringing AI/ML and big data solutions into production within complex enterprise environments. We design, build, and integrate custom systems tailored to our clients’ data, business logic, and operational needs, measuring success strictly against agreed business KPIs.We build custom AI for production, measured by business results. Whether delivering complex greenfield platforms end-to-end or deploying elite engineering squads to augment enterprise teams, we bridge business strategy with mission-critical technical execution.Position DescriptionAs Chief Technology Officer, you will define and own Zentavor’s technical vision, engineering standards, and platform delivery. You will put AI and agentic systems at the heart of our technical capabilities – not as an R&D experiment, but as production-grade solutions delivering quantifiable business ROI for top-tier global clients.You will conceive the strategy and drive execution. You are an architect and a builder who solves problems directly in the code, harnesses, and pipelines. You will lead client solution architectures, deploy autonomous multi-agent workflows into production, and hold the engineering bar across distributed elite teams (Data, ML, GenAI, and Backend).You will collaborate closely with executive leadership and client stakeholders, ensuring Zentavor’s delivery is fast, resilient, and enterprise-grade.ResponsibilitiesAI & Agentic Systems Architecture: Own end-to-end technical strategy across LLMs, agentic orchestration, tool-calling (MCP), retrieval (RAG), evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and enterprise context engineering.Production Delivery & Enterprise Integration: Lead the design and integration of custom AI/ML and data platforms into complex client legacy architectures, ensuring SLA compliance, fault tolerance, data governance, and scalable throughput.Engineering Standard & Team Ownership: Directly own technical hiring, workforce planning, and the engineering bar for top-tier talent. Coach tech leads, conduct deep code and architecture reviews, and maintain an uncompromising culture of excellence.AI-Native Engineering Acceleration: Embed AI-assisted development, automated testing, and agentic workflows into Zentavor’s internal operations to 10x engineering throughput.Economics & System Performance: Own build-versus-buy trade-offs, compute optimization, latency/cost budgets, model routing, and token spend governance across client workloads.What We Are Looking For10+ years of progressive engineering leadership (CTO, VP of Engineering, or Principal/Staff Architect) leading high-performance distributed teams.Deep, hands-on command of modern AI/ML systems: foundation models, multi-agent frameworks, fine-tuning, context engineering, vector stores, and automated eval suites.Proven track record of shipping and maintaining distributed, data-intensive systems and high-throughput pipelines in production enterprise environments.Strong grasp of AI economics: hosted vs. self-hosted inference, model routing, cost-per-query optimization, and latency management.High autonomy and ownership: you bring solutions and working prototypes, not open-ended questions.Outstanding client-facing communication: ability to deconstruct complex technical architectures for C-level executives.