Chief Technology Officer

RedTech Recruitment

West Bletchley, United Kingdom

4 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Regular working hours

Languages

English

Experience level

Senior

Compensation

£ 170K

Job location

West Bletchley, United Kingdom

Tech stack

.NET

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Computing Platforms

C Sharp (Programming Language)

Software as a Service

Cloud Engineering

Information Systems

DevOps

Microsoft SQL Server

Software Engineering

Enterprise Software Applications

React

Technical Debt

Event Driven Architecture

Information Technology

Api Design

Serverless Computing

Legacy Systems

Microservices

Job description

This role sits on the executive leadership team, reporting directly to the CEO, and will take ownership of both technology strategy and product direction. You will lead a sizeable engineering and product function, balancing platform stability with evidence-led modernisation and long-term technical strategy., Define and deliver the overall technology strategy and technical roadmap

Ensure strong alignment between product direction and engineering execution

Lead and develop a large engineering and product organisation

Improve platform stability, quality and operational resilience

Make evidence-based decisions around architecture and modernisation

Establish clear technical governance, ownership and accountability

Work closely with the CEO and executive team on wider company strategy

Act as the senior technology representative with customers and at board level, Chief Technology Officer / CTO / VP Engineering / VP Technology / Technology Director / Engineering Director / Director of Technology / Group CTO / Head of Engineering / Chief Architect / Platform Technology Lead / Software Modernisation Leader / Enterprise Software / Legacy Systems / Software Modernisation / Cloud Architecture / AWS / Serverless Architecture / SQL Server / .NET / C# / Go / React / SaaS Platforms / Microservices / API Design / Event-Driven Architecture / DevOps / CI/CD Pipelines / Computer Science / Software Engineering / Information Systems

Requirements

Proven experience leading engineering teams through legacy modernisation

Strong technical credibility across both modern and legacy software platforms

Experience owning and delivering technology strategy within a B2B or enterprise software environment

Commercial understanding of technical debt, platform risk and long-term sustainability

Ability to operate at board level and influence senior stakeholders

Experience building, mentoring and retaining senior engineering leaders

Confident balancing customer needs, operational stability and future roadmap

Experience in regulated, institutional or mission-critical software environments is beneficial, as is exposure to cloud-native or serverless architectures.