Director of Technology in Glasgow

The Original Fit Factory is an ecosystem of wellness brands, every experience our consumers have with us is to elevate the well-being journey for everyone. We are looking for a highly passionate individual who is hungry to help us build our wellness ecosystem and is passionate about purpose-led businesses.

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Director of Technology to lead our BiotrackOS technology team, drive technical strategy, and oversee the development and evolution of our web, mobile, and platform ecosystem. This role will report directly into the CEO, BiotrackOS.

This leader will bring deep expertise in Swift, Kotlin, and modern web technologies and frontend frameworks, along with strong architectural and systems thinking across backend and cloud environments. The role requires the ability to lead cross-functional technical teams while shaping long-term platform direction, governance, and scalability. This position assumes executive-level responsibility for the organisation's technology function and ensures continuity of platform strategy, architectural integrity, and technology governance.

Key responsibilities of the role:

• Technical Leadership
  • Define and execute the overall technology strategy aligned with organisational goals.
  • Provide architectural leadership and oversee the design and implementation of scalable, high‐performing mobile (Swift, Kotlin), web, and backend systems.
  • Oversee SDK strategy and platform integrations, ensuring scalable APIs and interoperability across third‐party systems.
  • Establish and maintain technical standards, engineering best practices, and long‐term architectural roadmaps.
• Team & Project Management
  • Lead, mentor, and grow multidisciplinary engineering teams, including mobile, web, backend, QA, DevOps, and data.
  • Manage full project lifecycles—from concept through delivery—ensuring deadlines, quality standards, and business requirements are consistently met.
  • Foster a collaborative, results‐oriented engineering culture with emphasis on accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Application & Platform Ownership
  • Oversee ongoing development, optimisation, and lifecycle management of web and mobile applications.
  • Ensure high standards of reliability, performance, and scalability across all systems.
  • Partner with Product, UX, and business stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into technical roadmaps and delivery plans.
  • Lead strategy and best practices across distributed systems and scalable cloud platforms.
  • Oversee data architecture, ingestion pipelines, storage solutions, and analytics infrastructure.
  • Ensure robust data governance frameworks across all platforms.
• Security & Compliance
  • Own the organisation's cybersecurity posture, including secure SDLC practices, penetration testing, and vulnerability management.
  • Ensure compliance with relevant data protection and regulatory frameworks (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA where applicable).
  • Oversee encryption standards, access controls, identity management, and secure infrastructure design.
  • Establish and maintain formal technology governance, risk management, and incident response frameworks.
  • Provide oversight of internal IT governance frameworks, including identity and access management, SaaS system oversight, endpoint security, vendor risk controls, and business continuity planning.
  • Partner with compliance and legal teams to ensure platform readiness for enterprise and healthcare environments.
• Operational Excellence
  • Define and monitor KPIs related to engineering performance, system uptime, quality, and delivery velocity.
  • Manage technology budgets, resource planning, and vendor relationships.
  • Introduce automation, tooling, and operational processes that improve engineering efficiency and product quality.
  • Support executive discussions, due diligence processes, and enterprise procurement requirements where needed.

Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, IT, Technology, or related field.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, including 4+ years leading technical teams.
• Strong hands‐on experience with Swift and Kotlin, including modern frameworks and paradigms (SwiftUI, Combine, Jetpack, coroutines, etc.).
• Experience overseeing modern web technologies and frontend frameworks.
• Proven track record of building, scaling, and maintaining production‐grade applications.
• Strong background in scalable data architectures, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple complex technical initiatives simultaneously.

Qualifications Preferred:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Experience working within AWS, GCP, or Azure environments.
• Familiarity with analytics platforms, machine learning pipelines, or real‐time data processing systems.
• Experience working within Agile or scaled delivery frameworks.

Skills for Success:

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Strategic thinker with strong decision‐making and problem‐solving skills.
• Ability to inspire, motivate, and guide high‐performing technical teams.
• Comfortable operating in fast‐paced, evolving environments.
• Willingness to travel as required.

Why should you choose us?

There are many benefits of working at The Original Fit Factory. These benefits include, but are not limited to:

• Opportunity to shape and scale the next generation of our technology ecosystem.
• High‐impact leadership role with meaningful strategic influence.
• Collaborative culture that values innovation, growth, and technical excellence.
• Competitive salary per annum.
• Training and Development opportunities.

At The Original Fit Factory, our mission is to allow everyone to explore wellness and fitness within their most preferred, comfortable environment and at their own pace. It is important that the successful candidate encompasses our vision and is mission‐driven to help us become the superchargers of wellbeing and fitness. If all of this sounds like you, please apply for the job – we cannot wait for you to join our team!