Technical Director

Technical Director - Permanent

SC Cleared

Southampton

Up to £120,000 + bonus

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.