The Investigo Group
CTO (Chief Technology Officer)
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Role: Chief Technology Officer
Location: Hybrid - Liverpool, Merseyside (3-4 days a month on-site)
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Competitive, based on experience + benefits + package
Security Clearance Requirements
Please note that holding a current Security Clearance is not essential at the time of application, but eligibility is required.
This role requires the successful candidate to be eligible for Security Check (SC) clearance. To meet this requirement, applicants must:
- Have the right to work in the UK
- Have lived in the UK continuously for the past 5 years
- Not have spent more than 6 months outside the UK in total during that period
- Be willing to undergo security vetting as part of the onboarding process
About Us
Come and be a part of The Investigo Group (TIG), a dynamic coalition of cutting-edge tech firms specialising in Platform, Software, Data, AI and other bleeding-edge technology solutions. Our innovative prowess spans the globe while proudly hailing from the United Kingdom.
The group is multi-functional with a large portfolio of B2B products and services.
Our ecosystem is made up of:
- Voixtel: Secure communications and voice platforms for regulated and critical environments.
- IIS: Providing secure internet access in both the public and private sectors. Its mission? To deliver world-class secure internet capabilities enhancing productivity across diverse skillsets and organisations.
- Vestigo Consulting: Our training and consultancy company, tailored around specialist sector-specific knowledge, and provides regular courses and CPD for our community. The Consultancy side concentrates on expert support of our customers as well as specifically assigned individual deployments.
- Collaboraite: A bleeding-edge company that provides our Data and AI capability. A collaborative partner for designing user-centred secure data solutions to overcome operational hurdles, delivered through design thinking and agile coaching.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are at the heart of The Investigo Group (TIG). We're dedicated to creating a workplace where people from all backgrounds are not only welcome but empowered to excel. We actively seek diverse talent, promote fairness, and foster an inclusive environment where every voice matters, driving innovation and progress in our dynamic tech community.
The group provides bespoke, secure, user-centric products fuelled by deep technical knowledge advanced data and analytical skills.
We proudly stand as a global leader in this space, partnering with esteemed entities that require these advanced forward-thinking capabilities. These partnerships have been forged from our understanding of customer challenges, as well as our expertise in developing world-leading enterprise product sets.
Join us at TIG, where innovation knows no bounds, and together, we'll shape the future of technology solutions for a safer, more efficient world.
About You
You're a proven technology owner, leader, and team builder with the credibility, judgement, and presence to operate confidently at Executive and Board level. You have significant senior leadership experience in technology roles, with progressive responsibility at CTO, Group, Executive, or equivalent level.
You have ideally evolved with an SME or scale-up business through meaningful growth, helping an organisation move from a similar size or stage of maturity to TIG into a more scalable, structured, and resilient technology operation. You understand what it takes to mature technology, teams, governance, delivery, and operating models without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
You've led multiple technology functions across software engineering, platform and infrastructure, security, architecture, and programme delivery. You bring a strong technical foundation, whether from software engineering, cloud, infrastructure, architecture, security, or a combination of these areas. We are particularly interested in leaders with breadth across diverse systems, including experience of on-premise environments, pre-cloud technology estates, cloud transformation, and modern platform models.
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You've operated in high-uptime, customer-critical environments where reliability, resilience, security, and customer impact are central to decision-making. You can clearly articulate what was broken or immature when you arrived, the decisions you made, how you balanced risk and pace, and the measurable outcomes you delivered.
You're commercially aware and experienced in managing technology budgets, cost optimisation, vendors, and strategic partners. You're comfortable working directly with Finance and CFO-level stakeholders to align technology investment to targeted commercial outcomes, ROI, risk reduction, operational efficiency, and business growth.
As a leader, you build trust quickly with technical and non-technical stakeholders. You know how to lead technology teams directly, but also how to create effective cross-collaboration between different technology functions. You are comfortable leading in complex environments where the subject matter expert may sit within the team, while still providing clear direction, accountability, challenge, and decision-making at leadership level.
About The Role
We're looking for a Group-level Chief Technology Officer to define, lead, and deliver the technology strategy across The Investigo Group.
This is a senior executive role with accountability for the direction, execution, performance, and outcomes of the Group's technology estate, spanning software engineering, AI and data-driven products, platform and infrastructure, security, architecture, and programme delivery.
The CTO will be responsible for stabilising, de-risking, and maturing a complex, customer-critical environment while shaping a modern, scalable operating model that supports future growth. This includes improving reliability, resilience, delivery predictability, governance, security, and customer confidence across the Group.
Reporting directly to the CEO, you'll work closely with the Board, Executive Team, and CFO to translate business strategy into clear technology roadmaps, make sound investment decisions, manage budgets and commercial trade-offs, and ensure technology initiatives deliver measurable business value.
This role requires a leader who can balance strategic vision with pragmatic execution. You'll bring clarity to priorities, strengthen governance and risk management, improve cross-functional delivery, and build strong senior leadership capability across technology.
The successful candidate will have experience leading through technology or operating model transformation, with a track record of delivering high-impact, cross-business technology programmes. You'll be equally comfortable setting direction, challenging assumptions, holding teams to account, and supporting subject matter experts to deliver complex technical outcomes.
While this is a senior and influential role, you'll be joining at the right point in TIG's growth journey, with the opportunity to shape the next stage of technology maturity without having to start from scratch. You'll be supported by an established, experienced, and highly collaborative leadership team, with strong technical capability already in place across the business, including a technically strong Programme Director and our Development & AI Director, both sitting within the Technical Authority and ready to work with and support you. This is not a role where you'll be expected to operate in isolation or solve everything alone. Our current CTO will remain within the Group in a more technically focused CTA role, providing continuity, technical context, and structured knowledge transfer. You'll have a strong team around you to lean on and rely on, giving you the support and insight needed to understand the environment, make informed decisions, and focus your energy on shaping strategy, improving delivery, and helping the business scale with confidence.
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Key Objectives
- Define and execute a clear, credible Group technology strategy aligned to business priorities, customer needs, security requirements, and long-term growth
- Stabilise, de-risk, and mature the Group's technology estate, improving uptime, resilience, reliability, security, and operational confidence
- Lead and evolve the technology operating model, organisation design, governance, and ways of working to support scale, consistency, and accountability across the Group
- Build, lead, and develop strong senior technology teams across software engineering, platform and infrastructure, security, architecture, AI/data, and programme delivery
- Improve cross-collaboration between technology functions, ensuring teams operate with shared priorities, clear ownership, and effective delivery governance
- Improve delivery predictability, quality, pace, and customer impact across critical technology programmes
- Ensure secure-by-design principles, compliant delivery, and regulated-environment thinking are embedded across platforms, products, services, and engineering practices
- Own technology investment decisions, budgets, cost optimisation, vendor relationships, and strategic partners, demonstrating clear ROI and measurable commercial value
- Work closely with the CEO, CFO, Board, and Executive Team to translate technology strategy, risk, investment, and delivery into clear business outcomes
- Support the scaling of PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, and customer-facing digital products in a way that balances growth, reliability, customer experience, security, and sustainability
- Provide clear, transparent reporting to the CEO and Board on technology roadmap, delivery performance, operational resilience, risk, investment, and progress against business outcomes
Success in This Role Looks Like
- A clear, trusted technology strategy that is well understood by the Executive Team and Board, and demonstrably aligned to business priorities
- A stabilised, resilient, and well-governed technology estate with improved reliability, reduced operational risk, and stronger customer confidence
- Strong senior leadership capability across all technology functions, with clear ownership, accountability, succession, and improved capability depth
- Improved collaboration between software engineering, platform, infrastructure, security, AI/data, architecture, and programme delivery teams
- Increased confidence in technology delivery, with greater predictability, improved quality, fewer surprises, and clearer commercial outcomes
- Technology investments that deliver measurable value through improved customer experience, operational efficiency, risk reduction, cost optimisation, or growth enablement
- Improved governance, standards, secure-by-design practices, and risk management that enable delivery rather than slow it down
- A mature, pragmatic, and scalable operating model that supports TIG's continued growth from its current SME/group stage into a more structured and resilient technology organisation
- A culture of collaboration, pragmatism, accountability
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