Director of Technology

1 month ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Blair West Full time

Blair West are supporting a successful Newcastle-based SaaS business in their search for a Technology Director to provide sound technical leadership across the business. This role will lead and deliver the strategic technology direction and directly manage a small development team.

Creativity, strategic thinking and strong business acumen are essential in this role. And the ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of current trends and modern business best practices.

The opportunity:

  • Develop, communicate, and deliver the company’s technical strategy to ensure alignment with senior management and overarching business goals.
  • Manage and lead the Software Development Team with the Development Director reporting directly to you.
  • Discover, learn, lead and implement new technologies to ensure sustainable competitive advantage.
  • Work towards embedding AI to help all departments use technology effectively and efficiently.
  • Own and lead on system infrastructure to ensure capability and performance at all times.
  • Build quality assurance and data protection processes.
  • Monitor KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance and efficiency.

You’ll be the ideal candidate for this role if you have:

  • Proven experience as a Technology Director, CTO or a similar tech leadership role, with excellent team building, coaching, organisational, and communication skills.
  • Knowledge of technological trends to drive and innovative strategy, and the ability to conduct technological analysis and research.
  • Strategic thinking and a problem-solving aptitude.
  • Practical knowledge of Cloud Server structures and AWS services management such as EC2, RDS, S3 Lambda and ElastiCache, and knowledge of PHP, MySQL, Laravel Framework and Redis.
  • An understanding of budgets, business-planning, ideally with experience owning P&L.
  • Knowledge of, and the ability to implement an agile delivery framework.


Our commitment:

Blair West is an equal-opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and inclusion at every stage of the recruitment process. We are committed to fairness, equality, and ongoing diversity training for our team to give our candidates and clients a feeling of belonging during their experience with us. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during their experience with us, please speak to their consultant.



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