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Interim Director of Technical Transformation (6-month contract, outside IR35)
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Director of Technical Transformation (Interim, 6 Month Contract)
Reports to: CTO & CPO
Contract type: Outside IR35, day-rate contract, 6 months
Location: London, up to 2 days a week on-site
Start date: Monday 28 September
About the role
Our client, a well-established UK media business, is going through significant organisational and technical transformation. They need an interim technical leader to provide senior architecture direction while their permanent architecture ownership model beds in.
This is a hands-on role. You'll make real technical decisions yourself, not just oversee others making them. It's also people-facing: several engineering teams are moving into new disciplines, most notably Agentic Engineering, and you'll support them through that as a visible, present leader.
What you'll be doing
- Own technical direction and decision-making across the transformation: architecture, agentic engineering, technical governance
- Lead end-state and transitional architecture using live projects
- Provide interim architecture leadership and support the client's architects until the permanent model is resolved
- Set and uphold engineering standards through the transition
- Support engineering teams retraining towards Agentic and Design Engineering with hands-on mentorship
- Establish agentic and design engineering as working practices: spec-driven delivery (spec, grounded generation, tests alongside code, automated checks, human sign-off), what "production-ready" means, and proportionate guardrails
- Close AI identity and access management skills gaps, and productionising LLM-powered applications, through embedded mentorship
- Own the technical handover to permanent leadership at the end of the engagement
- Work closely with the Interim Director of Process Transformation so technical and process change land together
- Provide technical governance for agentic and design engineering as those disciplines mature
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- Senior technical leadership experience with hands-on architecture credibility
- Experience developing end-state and transitional architecture for live, operating platforms
- Hands-on experience building agentic engineering practice from scratch
- Experience leading and supporting engineering teams through skills and role change
- Experience providing technical leadership and governance during organisational change
- A track record of clean handovers
- Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
How to apply
Apply via this advert. Please only apply if you can start on 28th September.
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