Job Description
CTO – Sheffield – Transformation Programme
Additional Benefits
Qualifications, skills, and all relevant experience needed for this role can be found in the full description below.
Corporate Days + EAP + Holiday Purchase Scheme + Discount
Region
South Yorkshire
DescriptionChief Technology Officer - join our team within this well defined Digital business and take us to the next level.
This is a full time role, Hybrid-working needing 2-3 days in the office based in Sheffield.
Benefits - competitive salary, company vehicle or allowance, bonus and benefits package.
This executive role offers the post holder the responsibility for overseeing the development of technologies for customers across the UK Group. The digital services goal is to deliver the Digital exp[erience to customers operating across both the public and private sectors.
We require someone with a reputation for simplifying digital assets, building new platforms and connecting all stakeholders. The role holder will improvements and make better the decision making across the senior management function helping the organaisation to deliver faster faster, increasing efficiency and allowing the business to thrive.
The successful applicant will work closely with the delivery and commercial teams to scope, develop and deliver the technology roadmap to deliver technology solutions as a service to a varied customer base.
Responsibilities
- Leading the line, the post holder will focus minds in the delivery of the technology and software development function to provide best in class technologically advanced services to the UK market.
- Work with the senior management team to deliver, maintain, and support the delivered infrastructure and application stack. Drive strong relationships with relevant stakeholders to symbiotically reach the business strategy objectives.
- Be fully responsible for the technology strategy, aligning with business objectives.
- Create a pathway for new technologies to innovate and strengthen market position.
- Be astute to industry trends and couple analytical thinking to the technology roadmap.
- Keep a focus on platforms and people to ensure continued customer delivery in a secure and forward thinking method.
- Partner with external bodies to ensure the technology business is fully engaged to best practice in wider community.
- Work closely with information and security leaders to ensure compliance and authority over data is systematically upheld.
- Fundamentally drive and take decisions regarding the technological landscape for the business working closely with all operations and divisions across the business to ensure outcomes are aligned and possible negative impacts managed successfully.
- Set the metrics of success within the technology function.
Experience
- Commercial Technology Leader
- Proven leadership Experience in complex ever evolving markets
- Experience in defining IT strategy
- Held responsibility for an IT Services function
Skills
- Engaging, communicative and strong stakeholder relationship skills
- Visionary through strategic planning
- Commercially astute
- Transformational and change focused.
- Articulate at all levels
- Technical polygot with the ability to flex and turn when the technology landscape mutates