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Director of Technology Strategy and Transformation
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Director, Technology Strategy & Transformation
Salary: £95,000–£105,000
Working pattern: Remote - international candidates considered
Contract: Permanent
Travel: Approximately 5–10% international
Remit: Global
The Opportunity
This is a senior technology leadership role within a complex international organisation undergoing significant evolution across its global technology platforms.
The Director of Technology Strategy & Transformation will sit at the centre of technology decision-making, combining architecture, transformation, data platforms, and practical technology roadmapping.
The role is suited to someone who can operate strategically without becoming detached from delivery.
You will need to understand complex technology environments, make credible architecture decisions, challenge constructively, prioritise within financial constraints, and lead a large, distributed technical function.
This is not a traditional programme-management role and it is not a purely back-office enterprise architecture position.
The Role
You will provide leadership across four connected areas:
Technology Strategy and Roadmaps
You will help shape practical 1–3 year roadmaps for major platforms and technology capabilities.
This will include:
- Identifying future requirements
- Prioritising investment
- Sequencing technology change
- Working with business and technology stakeholders
- Understanding vendor direction
- Balancing longer-term goals with immediate delivery priorities
Architecture and Solutioning
You will provide senior ownership of technology solutioning and architecture.
You will:
- Assess technical options
- Define appropriate architecture direction
- Encourage standardisation
- Protect core platforms from unnecessary bespoke change
- Identify where compromise is appropriate
- Ensure short-term delivery decisions do not undermine longer-term technology goals
The environment values pragmatic architecture rather than bureaucracy or methodology for its own sake.
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Transformation
You will play a central role in major technology-enabled transformation.
You will help define:
- The technology solution
- IT responsibilities
- Resource requirements
- Budget requirements
- Architecture implications
- Delivery readiness
You will work closely with transformation teams but will not act as the overall programme manager.
Data, Reporting and Integrations
You will lead teams responsible for core data-platform engineering, reporting, and integrations.
You do not need to be the deepest technical specialist in every area, but you must be technically credible and willing to get beneath the surface of unfamiliar issues when important decisions need to be made.
Leadership Scope
You will lead approximately 15 direct reports and a wider function of around 30 people across architecture, data, BI, integrations, and transformation-related technology capability.
The team is internationally distributed.
A significant part of the opportunity is helping the organisation ensure that its technology capability and structure remain fit for the next phase of change.
The Strongest Candidates Will Bring:
- Broad senior technology leadership experience
- Strong enterprise and/or solution architecture judgement
- Experience of major technology-enabled change
- Experience developing technology or product roadmaps
- Understanding of modern data platforms, data warehousing, and integrations
- Experience leading senior technical teams
- Strong commercial and financial judgement
- Confidence operating with senior stakeholders
- The ability to challenge constructively
- Experience navigating ambiguity, competing priorities, and constrained resources
You will be comfortable saying:
- This is the right solution
- This is not the right solution
- This should happen later
- This needs simplifying
- This should remain standard rather than bespoke
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Essential Experience
You should be able to demonstrate:
- Leadership of complex technology environments
- Architecture or technology-solution ownership
- Significant transformation experience
- Technology-roadmap development
- Senior stakeholder influence
- Experience leading technical professionals
- Commercial prioritisation and budget awareness
- The ability to work across multiple technology domains rather than within only one specialist area
Experience in a global, federated, matrixed, or multi-entity organisation would be particularly relevant.
Desirable Experience
The following may be useful but are not currently essential:
- Major ERP or enterprise SaaS transformation
- Modern Microsoft data-platform experience
- Microsoft Fabric exposure
- Global platform standardisation
- Working across independently governed business units or organisations
- Experience within the non-profit or international-development sector
Formal TOGAF or project-management accreditation is not required where relevant practical experience can be demonstrated.
Working Style
This environment is likely to suit someone who is:
- Pragmatic rather than theoretical
- Technically curious
- Commercially grounded
- Comfortable operating with incomplete information
- Able to influence without becoming dogmatic
- Willing to deep-dive when required
- Capable of balancing immediate delivery pressure with long-term technology quality
What You Will Inherit
You will join an organisation with:
- Significant technology change already underway
- A complex global stakeholder environment
- Legacy architecture and local variation
- Strong technical specialists
- A need to continue improving architecture visibility and documentation
- Pressure to deliver within finite resource and budget
The role therefore offers both influence and genuine complexity.
For more information and immediate consideration, please apply today
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