Fractional CTO & Architecture Direction
Set target technical direction across enterprise, solution, cloud, integration and SaaS architecture with accountable Design Authority.
Technical leadership · Fractional CTO-CISO
Senior CTO & CISO leadership.
Applied where it matters.
MAITS provides fractional CTO, fractional CISO, interim and programme technical leadership for organisations that need clear executive ownership of architecture, cyber security risk, and technical decisions.
Leadership with delivery context
The role can be advisory, part-time embedded, programme-wide or targeted at a transformation that needs independent technical direction.
Capability
Own the decisions that shape delivery.
Technical leadership connects executive intent, architecture, engineering standards, supplier delivery and operational reality.
Fractional CISO & Security Governance
Establish cyber security posture, board risk reporting, NZISM/PSR/ISO 27001 compliance, and pragmatic Zero Trust controls.
Technical decision governance
Establish principles, decision records, design authority, exceptions and accountable approval.
Programme technical leadership
Coordinate dependencies, resolve design conflict and keep multiple teams aligned to the intended outcome.
Delivery and architecture assurance
Review designs, implementation evidence, testing, production readiness and material technical risk.
Executive and vendor advice
Give leaders an independent technical view of proposals, suppliers, trade-offs, risk and escalation options.
Engagement outcomes
Make the next decision and delivery step clearer.
Part-time embedded leadership
Add senior ownership while retaining the organisation’s existing delivery team.
Interim technical leadership
Maintain direction and governance between permanent appointments.
Programme technical lead
Lead architecture and technical delivery across a major programme.
Transformation leadership
Own a bounded uplift, recovery or high-risk technical initiative.
Expected outputs
Useful artefacts for the people who must act.
Outputs are agreed for the engagement scope and written for the leaders, architects, engineers, operators and assurance teams who will use them.
Technical roadmapArchitecture principlesDecision governanceDelivery risk viewVendor reviewTechnical debt prioritiesMentoring plan
From advice through implementation
Enter at the stage where support is needed.
MAITS can provide one bounded stage or remain involved across design, delivery, validation and capability transfer.
Understand the decision
Clarify the people, systems, obligations, constraints, ownership and outcome involved.
Establish current state
Review evidence, architecture, controls, risk, capability and delivery readiness.
Define the target
Set principles, architecture, policy, operating ownership and a practical change sequence.
Implement the change
Configure, integrate, automate, migrate and roll out alongside accountable teams.
Test the outcome
Review behaviour, evidence, exceptions, recovery, readiness and residual risk.
Transfer capability
Embed knowledge, governance, runbooks, measures and an owned improvement path.
Related capability
Continue with the service that matches the next decision.
Start a conversation
Start with the requirement, risk or decision.
Tell us what needs senior attention and what outcome the organisation needs. We’ll agree an engagement shape around the work.