Technical Director / Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

• 23 September 2026
• 100%
• Indefinite duration
• 1024 Waadt, Ecublens
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Meanquest is an ESN created in 1995 that today has more than one hundred female and male employees.

Based in Ecublens, Meyrin and Givisiez, it deploys its expertise in five key areas: infrastructure, support, Cloud solutions, security and recruitment.

An IT company like ours relies on the commitment and know-how of its talents to offer quality customer service.

We accompany our teams in their evolution by offering great career prospects and we offer them a pleasant working environment based on autonomy.

We regularly look for profiles eager to get involved in the development of our company.

It is in this dynamic and to carry our ambitions that we wish today to strengthen our management team with a position of high responsibility, at the crossroads of our teams, our activities and our strategy:

a Technical Director / Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

A full member of the Management Committee (Codir), the technical director breathes technological vision and carries the development as well as the industrialization of the company's service offerings. A unifying, visionary leader and a source of proposals, you participate in the design of high-performance and profitable offers, aligned with the technologies of tomorrow and the business needs of clients. You manage, structure and motivate the engineering teams (Network & Security, Infrastructure, Cloud Solutions) with the objective of achieving operational excellence and guaranteeing the highest level of client satisfaction.

Governance & contribution to the Management Committee:

• Source of proposals and business development: Being the engine of innovation within management: identifying new levers for growth, internal transformation, automation and profitability.
• High-level representation: Carrying the technological credibility of Meanquest to strategic clients (C-Level, CIO, CISO) and developing strategic alliances with key partners (manufacturers, publishers, hyperscalers).
• Strategic orientation: Participating in the definition and implementation of Meanquest's strategy.
• Economic steering & performance: Supervising the technical P&L, the activity rate (TACE), the profitability of fixed-price projects, the allocation of skills as well as the management of certifications.

Key responsibilities:

• Development & industrialization of offerings
• Catalog design: Create, structure and evolve service offerings (fixed-price, integration, outsourcing, audits, service centers, managed services).
• Commercial support and development: Produce the technical materials necessary for the marketing of offerings (offer sheets, arguments, battle cards, proposal templates) and accompany the skill development of sales teams.
• Competitive differentiation: Position Meanquest on innovative, industrialized and scalable offers against the competition.
• Innovation & technologies of tomorrow
• Active technological monitoring: Identify and anticipate major trends (AI applied to infrastructures / AIOps, hybrid & sovereign Cloud, advanced automation, Edge Computing, next-generation Zero Trust architectures).
• Laboratory & POCs: Supervise the realization of internal Proof of Concept (POC) to test, validate and incubate disruptive technological building blocks before commercialization.
• Technological vision and anticipation: Define the technological directions of Meanquest by anticipating market evolutions and evaluating innovations likely to strengthen the relevance, competitiveness and value of the offers proposed to clients.
• Leadership, cohesion & management
• Network & security team: WAN/LAN architectures, SD-WAN, enterprise Wi-Fi, next-gen firewalls, access security (ZTNA, NAC), vulnerability audits and compliance.
• Infrastructure team: On-premise systems, virtualization, hyperconvergence, SAN/NAS storage, backup, DRP/BCP, maintenance of operational conditions (MCO) and outsourcing.
• Cloud solutions team: Migrations & public/hybrid Cloud architectures (Azure, AWS, GCP), containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) and FinOps.
• Cohesion & emulation: Uniting the three teams around a common culture of sharing, technical pride and self-improvement; establishing an atmosphere conducive to inter-team collaboration.
• Talent management: Leading recruitment, internal evolution paths, annual objective reviews and publisher accreditation/certification programs.
• Pre-sales, presentations & delivery
• Challenger & advisor: Being a source of proposals during complex pre-sales phases, challenging clients' master plans and designing high-value-added target architectures.
• Client presentations: Carrying the technical credibility of Meanquest and leading decisive presentations to client management committees and CIOs.

Profile sought:

• Education: Higher education in computer science, telecommunications, networks or related field, ideally at Master's level or equivalent.
• Experience: 10 to 15 years of experience in IT, with a confirmed background in ESN or at an integrator, including at least 5 years of experience in team management.
• Technical expertise: Proven transversal vision of system and storage infrastructures, enterprise networks and cybersecurity.
• Managerial qualities & leadership: Natural ability to unite, inspire and grow employees; pronounced taste for