Director of Technical Delivery

Job Role:Director of Technical Delivery

Location:Hybrid - London EC4R

Salary: Circa 100000 - 110000 (DoE) Bonus!

Contract Type:Permanent Full-Time

What We CanOffer You: 25 Days Annual Leave Additional Holiday Purchase Hybrid Working Performance-Related Bonus Life Assurance Vitality Private Healthcare Subsidised Gym Memberships Cycle to Work scheme Discount Vouchers and Access to Wellbeing Resources

Why do we want you

This is a newly created senior leadership role reporting directly to the CTO offering the opportunity to shape and elevate how Wilmington delivers largescale technically complex change.

We already have a strong project management foundation. What we need now is a technically credible leader who can bring authority structure and confidence to the delivery of complex integrations and platform evolution someone who can connect strategy to execution and raise the bar for technical delivery across the Group.

Youll operate at the heart of Wilmingtons technology agenda working closely with Managing Directors and senior leaders to guide acquired businesses onto a scalable futureready platform.

This is a highly visible role for someone who enjoys challenge influence and ownership.

This is not a requirementstaking role. Youll be a trusted expert able to challenge assumptions set clear direction and articulate what great looks like from a technology and delivery perspective.

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You will be responsible for:

• Owning the endtoend technical delivery of acquired business onboarding and platform integration from early discovery through to successful golive and handover.
• Leading programme planning dependency management cutover planning and hypercare coordinating across engineering data Salesforce ecommerce and enterprise systems teams to deliver highquality lowrisk outcomes.
• Establishing and embedding repeatable scalable delivery practices including onboarding playbooks runbooks documentation standards delivery metrics risk tracking and release management processes.
• Ensuring controlled predictable golives across multiple integration programmes.
• Acting as a senior technical authority championing Wilmingtons composable microservicebased platform strategy and making sound architectural decisions on integration approaches and system design.
• Proactively identifying and mitigating technical risks and support the CTO with technical due diligence for future acquisitions.
• Operating across multiple scrum teams bridging project and product delivery models supporting backlog management and sprint planning and embedding Agile best practices with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Building strong trusted relationships with acquired business leadership and senior stakeholders providing clarity confidence and momentum through periods of significant change.

Whats the Best Thing About This Role

This is a rare opportunity to make a visible lasting impact at a strategic level. Youll play a defining role in delivering Wilmingtons technology vision within a wellstructured highperforming environment where learning and improvement are actively encouraged.

Crucially much of the foundational work has already been done. Major technical debt has been addressed giving you the opportunity to focus on shaping the future driving innovation scale and integration rather than unpicking the past.

Whats the Most Challenging Thing About This Role

Youll be working at the intersection of technology strategy and stakeholder alignment across multiple businesses.

While executive sponsorship is strong success will depend on your ability to influence bring clarity and guide leaders through change advocating for a centralised scalable technology approach while balancing commercial realities with technical integrity.

To be successful in this role you must have:

• Deep technical background with handson engineering or architecture experience providing the credibility to confidently interrogate system designs integration strategies and technical tradeoffs
• Strong expertise in composable microservicebased architectures including API design eventdriven integration and service decomposition.
• Proven track record delivering largescale platform integration or migration programmes across complex multisystem and multivendor environments including API integration data migration identity consolidation release management and cutover execution.
• Strong capability in Agile delivery with experience working across multiple scrum teams and bridging projectled and productled delivery models applying frameworks such as Scrum and SAFe pragmatically.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience leading crossfunctional delivery across teams not directly managed and influencing senior internal stakeholders and acquired business leadership.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity bringing structure pace and clarity to fastmoving and evolving environments.
• Beneficial experience with platforms such as Salesforce Commercetools Business Central Administrate or HubSpot alongside exposure to M&A or postacquisition integration programmes and backgrounds in SaaS professional services regulatory technology or listedcompany environments.

We know its not a skill but the successful candidate must have permission to work in the roles location by the start of their employment.

About us

Were Wilmington plc a group of businesses united by governance risk and compliance. Acting as a trusted partner we help our customers to do the right business in the right way as they navigate the Regulatory Compliance landscape. If youre looking for innovation opportunity and community youll find them all and more here.

Join us and do Work That Means Something

At Wilmington plc we help global customers to do the right business in the right way - providing trusted data insights and education to navigate the Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) landscape.

When you join us youll not only make a real difference for our customers youll also enjoy flexibility through hybrid working and benefit from a wide range of learning career and development opportunities.

Whether youre just starting out returning to work after a break or looking to take your next step youll be doing work with meaning.

Join us and make a real difference. Click on APPLY today!

The Legal Bit!

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*Please note that this role may remain advertised until an offer of employment has been made.

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