Job Description

Areas of Critical Importance:

Leadership

• Mentor and develop incumbent members of the Digital Teams.
• Guide the technology strategy through careful consideration of deliverables up and down the business.
• Identify talent to drive the predetermined technology strategy.
• Quickly build a strong rapport with stakeholders across the business, both internal and external.
• Spearhead the technology strategy with guidance from other senior tech influencers.
• Direct guidance across outlined areas in the proposed strategy i.e. SDLC, timelines, sprints etc.

Outline our Technology Strategy

• Define the Technology Strategy to ALL members of our digital offering.
• Work closely with C-Level and board members at our Partners and Clients to justify and substantiate the chosen Technology Strategy.
• Recognise and understand opportunities in emerging technologies and how they could help drive our digital offering forward in the future - always looking ahead at how we could improve.

Incumbent Technology Operations

• Assess the current tech landscape and identify where changes can be made to maximise productivity and efficiency.
• Ensure all tech decisions are financially viable and have the overall tech strategy in mind.
• Make the organisation a more attractive proposition from a technical standpoint - to both prospective Clients and internal hires.
• Identify common platform patterns and encourage the "recycling" of existing technologies.
• Find an intuitive way of implementing and monitoring Agile environments, speed and quality of delivery and specified tech tooling.

Our Ideal Candidate

• A proven ability to not only drive the technology strategy but the business strategy as well.
• Natural ability to communicate, motivate and inspire.
• Despite the position of seniority, still demonstrate a keen willingness to learn and develop your knowledge.
• Must be passionate about promoting the best possible technology landscape.
• Considerable experience in building and managing high-performance software development teams.
• Advocate of Agile development environment.
• Broad knowledge of the enterprise world and understanding of different stakeholder needs.
• Prior experience developing a successful, enterprise multi-tenant SaaS or information services products.
• Experience with up-skilling, nurturing and succession planning with internal talent.
• Improving capability, processes and maturity in a multi-discipline IT department.
• Cool head under pressure with the ability to analyse real-world situations and make educated decisions in a short space of time, whether it be technological, economical or business strategy critical.
• A proven track record of driving commercial success through the continued development of product architecture and infrastructure providing industry leading technology and business solutions.