Group Chief Technology Officer

The Digital Modernization & Experience (DMX) Group Chief Technology Officer (CTO) plays a pivotal role in driving customer engagement, solution strategy, and growth-oriented technology leadership across the DMX portfolio. The Group CTO engages directly with government and enterprise customers toshape technology visions, guide modernization strategies, and position ICF as a trusted technology partner. Key is:

• Partnering with the DMX Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to shape DMX's technology direction;
• Setting the bar for how artificial intelligence (AI) is brought intofederal modernization delivery;
• Representing DMX's technical position to government and enterprise customers; and
• Executing the Group's technology offerings for the future.

• This is not a delivery executive or profit and loss (P&L) role.
• This is not a Chief AI Officer. AI is core, not the totality.
• The Group CTO shapes DMX's technology direction alongside the Strategy and SLT, bringing the technical-reality lens to decisions that the Strategy Lead approaches from a market and growth lens.

• Set and own DMX's technology direction, with a clear point of view on how AI and emerging technologies reshape federal modernization delivery and what that means for our customers.
• Serve as a senior, client-facing technology executive engaging CXOs and federal mission leaders to shape transformation roadmaps and trusted-advisor relationships.
• Shape solution strategy on the highest-stakes pursuits and captures, including early customer engagement, solution architecture, technical differentiation, and pricing input.
• Develop scalable, repeatable delivery patterns across cloud, data, cybersecurity, digital modernization, and AI, with particular emphasis on where AI accelerates or changes the business model of the others.
• Lead technology evaluations, proofs of concept, executive briefings, and client demonstrations to drive adoption and customer buy-in.
• Provide architecture and engineering judgment across DMX programs, grounded in current, practical technical depth, including the standing to challenge initiatives that are not on a credible path to value.
• Stay current on emerging technology and applied AI research and translate the relevant signal into specific DMX bets and customer recommendations.
• Develop and mentor senior technologists and architects across DMX, strengthening the technical bench and communities of practice.
• Partner with the enterprise CTO function, other ICF Group and Field CTOs, business leaders, and partners to align technology investments with growth priorities.
• Support technical and commercial diligence on acquisition targets, including valuation model review, and assessment of whether a target's technical claims support its projected growth.

• Built or scaled AI-first technology in production within the last 5 years, with direct involvement in technical decisions. Breadth to operate at the enterprise level. Years of tenure are not a primary screen.
• Defensible, experience-grounded point of view on what AI can and cannot do in regulated mission environments, with the judgment and standing to call out vendor and internal hype when it appears.
• Operated as a hands-on technical leader at a high-velocity AI or software product company or led the integration of modern AI capability into enterprise delivery at scale. Led it - not governed or reviewed it. Comparators include Palantir, Anthropic, OpenAI, Scale, Cohere, and similar.
• Demonstrated success shaping captures and proposals in regulated environments, including solution architecture and executive-level technical narratives. Federal experience preferred but not required if AI conviction and adjacent regulated-market experience are strong.
• Working depth in cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), modern data engineering, and AI-augmented software delivery. Sufficient ground in cybersecurity and compliance to navigate ATO, NIST, and FISMA.
• Experience guiding architectural standards, governance models, and technical guardrails across multiple programs or portfolios.
• Strong leadership, communication, and mentoring skills, with a track record of influencing senior peers and customer executives without org chart authority.
• Strong technical foundation, evidenced by a Bachelor's degree in a technical field, advanced research training, or equivalent demonstrated technical depth.

• Ability to influence behavior, with both implicit and explicit authority.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to convey complex and highly technical concepts in understandable ways to clients and internal partners.
• Strong commitment to working collaboratively in a team, with a passion for excellence.
• Flexible approach to managing multiple priorities and adapting to changing demands.
• Sound business ethics, including the protection of proprietary and confidential information.
• Ability to work effectively with all levels of internal staff, including executive management.
• Results-driven and self-motivated, while keeping others informed on progress toward goals.

• Establishes a clear technology direction for DMX that the SLT, customers, and partners recognize as differentiated, with a credible point of view on how AI reshapes our delivery.
• Visibly engaged with priority customers and accounts, supporting executive conversations, solution shaping, and capture efforts.
• Influences priority pursuits through differentiated solution strategies and technical leadership.
• Recognized by DMX's senior architects and engineers - across cloud, cyber, AI, software engineering, and data programs - as a credible technical peer.
• Demonstrates AI-augmented delivery on existing DMX engagements as replicable patterns, with measurable improvements in delivery velocity, quality, and margin.
• Strengthens the DMX technology leadership bench through mentoring, recruiting, role clarity, and community building.
• Builds strong working partnerships with the enterprise CTO function, other ICF group CTOs, business leadership, and delivery executives.