Experis UK
IT Director - South West
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A high‑profile financial services organisation is seeking an experienced IT Director to provide strategic technology leadership across a complex, large‑scale environment.
This is a pivotal position, joining both an executive leadership team and the company's global technology leadership group. The IT Director will have significant influence over business‑critical technology, digital strategy, and organisational change.
As IT Director the successful candidate will drive the end‑to‑end technology strategy, oversee large‑scale change programmes and ensure alignment with global platforms and enterprise‑wide transformation initiatives.
In this role the successful candidate would be managing a technology operation of approximately 300 people with five senior direct reports across areas such as Information Security, Architecture, Software Engineering, Digital platforms and Data.
This is an outstanding opportunity for a senior technology leader who thrives in complex, regulated environments and enjoys leading modernisation at scale.
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Key Responsibilities
- Define and execute the technology strategy
- Lead large‑scale digital, data, and systems transformation initiatives.
- Oversee service delivery, engineering, architecture, and core platform evolution.
- Provide proactive leadership as part of the executive team, shaping organisational direction.
- Represent the UK within a global technology leadership community.
- Own senior‑level stakeholder engagement across business, operations, and global functions.
- Drive performance, capability uplift, and cultural alignment across a distributed technology function.
- Ensure technology governance, operational resilience, and compliance within a regulated environment.
Required Experience
- Proven Senior IT leadership experience within highly regulated environments and in the Financial Services sector.
- A track record of leading enterprise‑wide technology change at pace and scale.
- Experience managing large multi‑disciplinary technology teams.
- Strong exposure to outsourcing / offshoring, vendor management, or complex delivery models.
- Experience with platform consolidation, integration and merger‑driven technology change.
- Clear strategic vision combined with hands‑on leadership of operations, delivery, and transformation
- Previous experience working in a post-merger environment
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This role is being offered as a 12 Month Fixed-Term contract opportunity, in addition to the base salary this role will come with an excellent benefits package including bonus, car and generous pension.
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