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Technical Director (Maritime)

ExperisPortsmouth, Hampshire🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 20 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This leadership role offers a unique opportunity to drive a major maritime program for a high-profile technology organization, shaping the future of defense technology and influencing thousands of personnel. You'll thrive here if you possess extensive enterprise architecture experience, a background in military or defense, and a passion for introducing emerging technologies like AI and ML, all within a flexible hybrid work environment. This is a fantastic chance to make a significant impact and advance your career.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Full Time
Level
Leader

Job Description

Our client, a high profiling technology organisation, urgently require an experienced Technical Director to run a major Maritime programme that they are delivering.

In order to be successful, you will have the following background:

  • Background within either UK Military, or working with the Military/MoD as a customer
  • Experience of acting as a senior technical authority, providing architectural leadership
  • Enterprise Architecture background across software engineering and platform delivery, including cloud-hosted services, APIs, DevSecOps, CI/CD and test automation
  • Experience of introducing emerging technologies including AI, ML and data enabled services
  • Strong and robust stakeholder management skills
  • SC Cleared

Within this role, you will be responsible for:

  • Senior leadership role within a multi-year delivery environment, supporting thousands of uniformed personnel and civil servants
  • Set the technical direction for the software house, ensuring digital products and services are aligned to MoD priorities and wider defence policy
  • Define and maintain technical architecture roadmap
  • Translate operational and business needs into coherent technical strategy
  • Ensure that platforms, products, data, integration patterns and engineering approaches support long-term mission outcomes as well as immediate delivery priorities
  • Provide technical leadership across complex code, low-code, data and platform services
  • Work with stakeholders across MoD organisations
  • Lead the approach surrounding modern engineering and emerging technologies
  • Provide governance, assurance and risk management across the delivery portfolio
  • Tech: Python, TypeScript, React, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub, Tekton and associated DevSecOps toolchains, Saas platforms, Microsoft Power Platform, Palantir Foundry

This represents an excellent opportunity to secure a long term role, within a high profile and dynamic organisation.

If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.

Skills

Docker
Kubernetes
Outreach
Python
React
Risk Management
Stakeholder Management
TypeScript

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