Director of Technology

Join Simple Machines UK as the Director of Technology, a senior leadership role focused on driving technology success and growth in the UK and Europe. You will provide senior technology leadership to clients, lead major pursuits, and develop the technology team. This hands-on role involves solving complex technical problems, shaping software architecture, and ensuring the technical quality of our work. You will also act as a trusted technology adviser to senior client stakeholders, open new client relationships, and lead the UK technology team.

About Simple Machines

Leadership: Proven senior client leadership and experience leading and developing engineers, technical leads and architects

Responsibilities

• Assurer le succès et la croissance des clients d'entreprise existants tout en ouvrant de nouvelles relations.
• Fournir un leadership technologique senior aux clients, diriger les grandes poursuites et développer les personnes technologiques.
• Diriger l'ingénierie de solutions logicielles modernes, y compris les applications et systèmes natifs à l'IA.

Requirements

• Software engineering: 15+ years in software and technology, with a substantial part of your career spent hands-on as a software engineer, progressing through the engineering / technical path into architecture and technology leadership
• Enterprise: Significant experience designing and delivering technology within complex Tier 1 environments; banking, trading, telecommunications, wagering and insurance are particularly relevant
• Pre-sales and sales: Personally experienced in discovery, proposition and solution shaping, proposals, RFPs, tenders, pitches and winning consulting work
• Architecture: Strong software, solution and enterprise architecture capability
• Technology consultancy: Significant experience within a recognised technology consultancy, working directly with complex enterprise clients