CTO Guide, Advisor and Auditor for SaaS platform - PHP/Laravel skills

Looking for a CTO advisor and guide to mentor and audit SaaS platform. Needs to be extremely sophisticated resource. This can be a full time of part-time role depending on your availability.

About SimplifyVMS

SimplifyVMS

North America, EMEA, and APAC

CTO Advisor/Auditor and Guide for our Engineering team

Position Overview

CTO Advisor/Auditor and Guide of Engineering

high-performing, secure, and compliant global SaaS products

strategic and hands-on technical leadership role

Key Responsibilities

1. Technical Strategy & Architecture

• Define and own the

  technical vision and roadmap

  for the SimplifyVMS platform.
• Architect and guide the evolution of a

  PHP/Laravel-based global SaaS solution

  , ensuring scalability, modularity, and maintainability.
• Lead architectural modernization efforts including

  containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

  , microservices adoption, and API-first design.
• Oversee multi-region

  data residency, GDPR compliance

  , and

  data partitioning strategies

  across EMEA, APAC, and North America.
• Design and manage

  multi-currency, multi-language, and localization frameworks

  across organizational hierarchies and workflows.
• Define

  best practices for performance optimization, caching, load balancing, and distributed systems management

  .

2. Engineering Leadership & Delivery

• Lead, mentor, and scale a

  high-performing global engineering team

  (developers, architects, QA, DevOps, data engineers).
• Establish

  engineering excellence frameworks

  — coding standards, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and release governance.
• Oversee

  end-to-end delivery

  of platform enhancements, ensuring on-time and high-quality releases aligned with product roadmap goals.
• Implement

  DevSecOps practices

  ensuring security, compliance, and continuous monitoring throughout the SDLC.
• Collaborate with product leadership to translate business goals into scalable and sustainable engineering solutions.

3. Data Engineering, Reporting & Analytics

• Oversee

  data architecture design

  , data flow management, and high-performance data pipelines across multi-tenant environments.
• Drive development of

  real-time reporting, analytics, and business intelligence capabilities

  within the VMS platform.
• Ensure accuracy, performance, and compliance in handling sensitive workforce, financial, and supplier data.
• Implement

  data retention, encryption, and anonymization policies

  aligned with GDPR and regional compliance standards.

4. Global Platform Management

• Manage and optimize

  multi-region deployments

  , ensuring uptime, reliability, and performance SLAs.
• Oversee

  cloud infrastructure strategy

  (AWS / Azure / GCP) including load balancing, redundancy, and cost optimization.
• Establish standards for

  disaster recovery, monitoring, and incident management

  .
• Lead initiatives for

  workflow localization

  — ensuring process, currency, and language variations function seamlessly across regions and organizational hierarchies.

5. Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Collaborate with

  Product, UX, and Customer Success

  teams to align technology with customer outcomes.
• Partner with executive leadership on product vision, innovation strategy, and technology investment planning.
• Represent Engineering in customer-facing discussions for enterprise clients and strategic partners.
• Build a culture of

  ownership, transparency, and continuous learning

  across engineering teams.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Technical Expertise

• 15+ years

  of software engineering experience, with 8

  + years in a senior engineering leadership or VP role

  .
• Deep hands-on experience in

  PHP, Laravel, MySQL/PostgreSQL

  , and modern

  web application architectures

  .
• Proven experience building and scaling

  complex B2B SaaS platforms

  supporting global enterprise customers.
• Strong expertise in:

• Microservices and containerization

  (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Multi-tenant architectures

  with role- and hierarchy-based access.

• Multi-region data storage and GDPR compliance frameworks

  .

• Multi-currency, multi-language, and localization management.

• API-first integration frameworks

  with HRIS, ERP, and third-party SaaS platforms.
• Strong background in

  data engineering, ETL pipelines, and reporting frameworks

  .
• Solid understanding of

  cloud infrastructure (AWS)

  , DevOps automation, and CI/CD.
• Experience with

  performance engineering

  ,

  load testing

  , and

  high availability

  systems.

Leadership & Management

• Proven ability to

  build, scale, and mentor large engineering teams

  across multiple time zones.
• Experience managing

  agile delivery organizations

  with rapid iteration and continuous deployment.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills — able to collaborate effectively with product, business, and client executives.
• Track record of

  transforming legacy systems into modern, cloud-native architectures

  .

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in

  Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline

  .
• Advanced degree (MBA, M.Tech) preferred but not required.

Preferred Experience

• Prior experience in

  HR Tech, Procurement Tech, or Workforce Management platforms

  .
• Exposure to

  AI/ML integration

  for analytics and intelligent automation.
• Experience with

  SOC 2 / ISO 27001 compliance

  , and secure data handling practices.
• Thought leadership in

  modern PHP/Laravel architectures

  , open-source contributions, or technical publications.

Why Join SimplifyVMS

• Lead technology innovation for a

  global SaaS company

  revolutionizing workforce management.
• Architect and scale

  a modern PHP/Laravel-based enterprise platform

  serving multinational clients.
• Build and mentor a world-class engineering team with cutting-edge technologies (containerization, DevSecOps, AI-driven reporting).
• Competitive executive compensation, performance incentives, and leadership visibility.