Xpertise Recruitment
Head of IT
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Head of IT
£135,000 + discretionary bonus + benefits | Hybrid (3 days/week, Central London) | Permanent
The Opportunity
Our client is an established, well-funded specialist lender in the property finance space, with an ambitious growth plan and a stable, experienced leadership team.
Having grown steadily since launch without ever having a dedicated technology function, the business has reached the point where it needs its first permanent Head of IT - a genuinely greenfield opportunity to build a function from the ground up.
This is a rare chance to shape technology strategy and team structure from scratch inside a growing business with real backing and no legacy baggage to unwind.
The Role
Reporting directly to the COO, you'll take ownership of technology across a business that runs on an entirely outsourced, SaaS-based model - there is no in-house development team, and this is fundamentally a leadership, governance and vendor-management role rather than a hands-on engineering one.
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Your priorities from day one will include:
- Bringing structure and governance to an in-flight core system upgrade that currently lacks dedicated internal oversight
- Building proper supplier and vendor management discipline across a third-party technology estate
- Establishing the operational foundations - service desk, ticketing, access management - needed to support a business planning significant headcount growth
- Owning and evolving an existing IT strategy, building out a small permanent team over time, including delivery, infrastructure and support roles
- Supporting the technology implications of new product lines as the business expands beyond its current lending niches
- Providing oversight of cyber security and data governance, working with specialist third-party providers
About You
- Strong generalist IT leadership experience, spanning infrastructure, applications and supplier/vendor management - this is not a role for a narrow specialist
- Experience in financial services, ideally mortgage or specialist lending, is a strong advantage
- A track record operating in a small, outsourced-technology environment rather than running a large in-house department - candidates from big, heavily-resourced enterprise IT functions are unlikely to find this the right fit
- Comfortable in an SME/scale-up environment: hands-on, pragmatic, and used to working directly with vendors rather than through layers of internal process
- Genuinely motivated to build and grow with a business over the medium term, rather than seeking a short-term step
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The Package
- Base salary up to £135,000, with some flexibility for an exceptional candidate
- Discretionary annual bonus (the business has paid a bonus every year since inception)
- 8% employer pension contribution
- 30 days holiday
- Director-level benefits structure
- Hybrid working: 3 days per week in the Central London office
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