(Immediate Start) 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 is a next-generation Vendor Management System (VMS) and Contingent Workforce Management Platform designed for global enterprises and Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Our multi-tenant, cloud-native SaaS platform helps organizations manage contingent labor, SOW engagements, and service procurement with agility, compliance, and intelligence.

With customers across North America, EMEA, and APAC, SimplifyVMS is building a scalable, secure, and globally compliant platform that supports multi-region data storage, GDPR compliance, multi-currency transactions, and localization across multiple hierarchies and organizational levels.

We are seeking a visionary CTO Advisor / Auditor and Guide for our Engineering team with extensive experience in PHP / Laravel-based SaaS architectures, global-scale system design, and hands-on leadership across architecture, data engineering, performance, and delivery management.

Position Overview

The CTO Advisor / Auditor and Guide of Engineering will lead all aspects of software engineering and platform architecture for SimplifyVMS, overseeing product development, data architecture, scalability, and technology excellence.

This executive will guide a distributed engineering team to deliver high-performing, secure, and compliant global SaaS products, while ensuring strong collaboration with Product Management, Customer Success, and Operations.

This is both a strategic and hands-on technical leadership role — ideal for a leader who combines deep architectural experience with a passion for building enterprise-grade SaaS platforms that scale globally.

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

3. Data Engineering, Reporting & Analytics

4. Global Platform Management

5. Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Leadership

Required Skills & Qualifications

Technical Expertise

Leadership & Management

Education

Preferred Experience

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