The Role: CTO - Database Strategy Execution Lead
Location: Sheffield, UK
Position Type: Contract Inside IR35
Implementation Partner - HSBC
Remote work option Available: 2-3 Days Work from Office
Job Description:
Key responsibilities
- Translate the Database Platform strategy into prioritised roadmaps, milestones, funding requirements and measurable outcomes.
- Coordinate delivery across engineering, architecture, product, risk, operations and business stakeholders.
- Track progress across strategic initiatives, managing dependencies, risks, decisions and escalations.
- Prepare concise recommendations, updates and decision papers for senior leadership and governance forums.
- Support delivery of the on-premises DBaaS roadmap, including services based on MongoDB and SQL Server.
- Apply DBaaS operating, consumption and control models to new distributed SQL products.
- Help shape the architecture, product model and industrialised consumption of distributed SQL services.
- Define capability plans across platform engineering, product management, architecture, automation, reliability and service operations.
- Promote consistent engineering standards for newly onboarded database products, including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD/CT pipelines, Automated testing, Secure engineering, SDLC and deployment controls, Reliability, recoverability and service management
- Identify technical and organisational gaps and coordinate practical solutions across the function.
Experience and qualifications
- Experience leading technology strategy execution, platform delivery or transformation at scale.
- Experience working as a strategic adviser, execution lead or chief-of-staff-style partner to a senior technology leader.
- Experience with databases systems, one or many of the following: Oracle, Mongodb, Postgres, MS SQL Server.
- Experience delivering or operating database platforms through DBaaS, IaaS or similar shared-service models.
- Working knowledge of relational, NoSQL and distributed SQL technologies.
- Understanding of database performance, capacity, availability, resilience, recoverability and security.
- Experience coordinating engineering, architecture, product, risk and operations teams.
- Practical understanding of platform engineering, automation, DevOps, SRE, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
- Ability to assess technical options, identify delivery risks and present clear recommendations.
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience with distributed SQL.
- Experience with microservices, API development and application systems design.
- Experience establishing or maturing technology capabilities, operating models or platform services.
- Typically, 10 or more years of relevant experience, including senior technology or transformation responsibilities.
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