Salaire annuel médian en 2025
175 140 $US
Médiane de toute la profession, tous niveaux d'expérience confondus. Elle ne concerne ni un niveau précis ni le Brésil.
Métier en 2026 et 2027
The Chief Technology Officer decides what technology the company bets on and builds the organization that can deliver it. The job sits between architecture, people and the business case for both.
Contenu revu le 21 octobre 2026
Senior
Accountable for technology strategy at company level, including AI, innovation and how it is explained to executives and the board.
Your calendar fills with executive meetings, build-versus-buy calls and questions about where AI fits. You still shape architecture, but your main output is now decisions the other executives and the board can follow and trust.
Score moyen exigé : 71 %
Parcours d'étude de ce niveau : Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Technology Vision Setting
Pourquoi : You tie the technology vision to the company's growth plan, so that the CEO can see which bets support revenue and which are engineering preference.
Strategic Technology Roadmap
Pourquoi : You defend multi-year platform investment against short-term feature pressure and show what the company loses by deferring it.
Microservices Architecture
Pourquoi : You set architectural principles that dozens of engineers follow, so services stay resilient and independent as the organization grows.
Cloud Strategy & Architecture
Pourquoi : You decide on single cloud, multi-cloud or a mix and weigh resilience, cost and negotiating leverage, then own the consequences.
Engineering Hiring & Recruitment
Pourquoi : You design hiring across several teams and leaders, and decide when to hire senior people versus grow juniors given the roadmap.
Engineering Culture & Psychology
Pourquoi : You shape culture through managers, promotions and how you react to a major failure, since your behavior sets the norm for everyone.
Technology Roadmap Planning
Pourquoi : You coordinate roadmaps across teams, with shared milestones and KPIs, so dependencies between teams stop being surprises at release time.
Execution Excellence & Delivery
Pourquoi : You look at delivery across the whole organization and intervene where a team is repeatedly late, before the business loses trust in engineering.
AI/ML Strategy & Adoption
Pourquoi : You decide which business problems justify AI or ML, whether to build or buy models, and what data and governance must exist first.
Innovation Culture & Experimentation
Pourquoi : You set aside room for experiments and define when one is stopped, so the company takes calculated risks without derailing the roadmap.
Vendor Evaluation & Selection
Pourquoi : You judge strategic vendor choices, such as a data platform or core system, by total cost, exit options and risk to the business.
Technical Partnerships & Vendors
Pourquoi : You negotiate partnerships that give the company access to capability or distribution it cannot build alone, and protect it from dependency.
Executive Communication & Influence
Pourquoi : You explain a technical trade-off, such as paying down debt versus shipping a feature, in terms the CFO and CEO can decide on.
Board Reporting & Governance
Pourquoi : You present technology risk, such as security exposure or key-person dependency, and performance to the board in a form it can act on.
Chaque niveau de ce métier correspond à un parcours d'étude. Lisez gratuitement la carte complète des sujets, puis mesurez votre niveau.
Salaire annuel médian en 2025
Médiane de toute la profession, tous niveaux d'expérience confondus. Elle ne concerne ni un niveau précis ni le Brésil.
Croissance prévue de l'emploi, 2025–2035
Bien plus rapide que la moyenne
Profession américaine utilisée : Computer and Information Systems Managers. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, mis à jour le 27 août 2026
12 semaines · intensif
Environ 8 heures par semaine, en 1 cycle centrés sur les écarts qui pèsent le plus.
40 semaines · régulier
Environ 4 heures par semaine, en 3 cycles. Chaque cycle reprend ce qui reste du précédent.
The Chief Technology Officer decides what technology the company bets on and builds the organization that can deliver it. The job sits between architecture, people and the business case for both.
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) est cartographié en 3 niveaux : Mid-level, Senior et Expert. Ouvrez chaque niveau ci-dessus pour voir les compétences à prouver.
Le plan propose 2 rythmes : 12 semaines par niveau, à raison d'environ 8 heures par semaine (intensif) et 40 semaines par niveau, à raison d'environ 4 heures par semaine (régulier).
Une séance d'étude pour chaque nouveau sujet, à votre niveau.
Des leçons pratiques sur l'usage de l'IA au quotidien dans votre métier.
Chaque exigence est prouvée par la mesure, pas par une case cochée.
À la fin de chaque cycle, vous voyez ce qui a progressé et ce qui est reporté.
Un court diagnostic mesure les compétences que vous avez déjà. Le parcours commence là.