Head of Technology

Section: Overview As Head of Technology you own the technology function end to end: you accept the platform from the delivery partner, lead the permanent team, and keep every surface running for launch and beyond.

Section: Responsibilities

• Platform acceptance: Own the relationship with the delivery partner and lead acceptance of the handover against a clear, written standard.
• Platform ownership & approvals: Own the platform end to end and hold approval authority over releases, changes and go/no-go decisions.
• Technical direction: Set architecture, tooling and hosting decisions across website, apps, streaming and internal tools.
• Publishing workflow controls: Own the technical controls governing the publishing workflow, including publishing permissions and the approvals before content goes live.
• Team leadership: Hire, lead and grow the six-person engineering team, and set priorities against the launch date.
• Reliability & security: Hold accountability for reliability, security posture and incident response at launch and beyond.

Section: Knowledge & skills required

• Proven engineering leadership: Track record leading engineering teams that shipped consumer web and mobile products.
• Hands-on depth: Enough technical depth to make architecture calls and review work across frontend, backend and infrastructure.
• Vendor & systems integration: Experience taking over, integrating or operating third-party or vendor-built systems.
• Security & governance: A solid grasp of security posture, access and publishing governance, and the controls a live platform needs.
• Judgement under pressure: Sound judgement under deadline and comfort owning go and no-go calls.