Technology Director

A Technology Director role sits below the CTO in some organisations and stands in for one in others; either way, the job is to own architecture, platform and delivery decisions properly rather than leaving them to drift between teams. It is a good fit where the gap is operational technology leadership rather than a full board-level seat.

I've spent time running complex systems of record alongside incubators, which is a fair description of the Technology Director brief: keep the mission-critical platform reliable while building the capability to move faster. Senior technology leadership across financial services and SaaS, from start-up through FTSE 250, sits behind that.

The work covers platform modernisation as much as new delivery: reducing ambiguity in legacy systems so that AI-era execution, observability, and governance can sit on top of something dependable, rather than something held together by habit.

The practical side draws on the Cambridge Judge Business School CTO Programme, the Imperial College Professional Certificate in AI and Machine Learning, and ongoing work applying agentic workflows and AI-augmented engineering. Available on an interim or fractional basis, London hybrid or UK remote.

This suits organisations, in financial services or SaaS, where the technology function has grown past what a single stretched leader can hold together, but is not yet large enough to justify a permanent, senior full-time hire.

The first step is usually a short call to align on the brief, the current constraints, and what a good outcome looks like within the first few weeks.