• 12/08/26
• London, Slough
• £900 - 1,000 per day
• Contract
• Senior IT Appointments
• Full time

Interim Director of Technology Delivery — 6 Month Contract
£900–£1,000 per day | Manchester, Leeds or Thames Valley (3 days on-site) | Inside IR35

Confidential search.

Based from whichever of Manchester, Leeds or Thames Valley suits you, with a 3 days/week on-site expectation at that hub.

THE BUSINESS

A UK-listed services organisation with a substantial internal technology function is bringing in an experienced interim leader to accelerate a period of change across its engineering and delivery organisation. This is a business with an established, well-resourced technology team looking to modernise how it builds and ships - not a start-from-scratch environment.

THE ROLE

You'll take operational ownership of how technology gets delivered across a multi-disciplinary engineering organisation - spanning platform, infrastructure and application teams — during a defined period of change. Core focus areas:

Reshaping how engineering, architecture and product functions work together day to day, moving the organisation toward faster, more autonomous ways of working
Raising the bar on engineering practice — automation, release discipline, quality and observability - across a sizeable in-house team
Acting as a credible senior voice into the leadership team on technology delivery, translating between commercial priorities and engineering reality
Building capability within the existing team so improvements outlast the interim period — this is a hands-on leadership brief, not an advisory one
Getting proper visibility and control over cost and risk as cloud usage scales, and using that to inform how the function is shaped going forward
Bringing structure and pace to a team that has the technical depth but needs stronger delivery discipline layered in

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

A strong track record leading engineering or delivery functions at senior/director level within a sizeable, complex organisation - 10+ years in technology, with real seniority in the last several
Genuine hands-on credibility in modern engineering practice: cloud platforms, automated delivery pipelines, and the operating models that go with scaled distributed teams
Experience leading through a period of organisational or operating-model change, not just running steady-state delivery
Comfortable operating in a regulated or high-governance environment, and confident holding your own with senior stakeholders outside the technology function
Available now or at very short notice, for an initial 6-month term with realistic potential to extend or move to permanent.