Director of Technical Delivery in City of London

Location: Hybrid / Office based in London EC4R

Salary: Circa £100,000 - £110,000 (DoE) + 15% bonus

Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent

What We Can Offer You:

• 25 Days Annual Leave (Pro-Rata for Part-time and Fixed-Term Roles)
• Additional Holiday Purchase
• Hybrid Working
• Life Assurance
• Vitality Private Healthcare
• Subsidised Gym Memberships
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Discount Vouchers
• Access to Wellbeing Resources

Why do we want you:

This is a newly created, senior leadership role reporting directly to the CTO, offering the opportunity to shape and elevate how Wilmington delivers large-scale, technically complex change. We already have a strong project management foundation. What we need now is a technically credible leader who can bring authority, structure, and confidence to the delivery of complex integrations and platform evolution, someone who can connect strategy to execution and raise the bar for technical delivery across the Group. You’ll operate at the heart of Wilmington’s technology agenda, working closely with Managing Directors and senior leaders to guide acquired businesses onto a scalable, future-ready platform. This is a highly visible role for someone who enjoys challenge, influence, and ownership. This is not a requirements-taking role. You’ll be a trusted expert able to challenge assumptions, set clear direction, and articulate what great looks like from a technology and delivery perspective.

Job Purpose, Tasks and Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for:

• Owning the end-to-end technical delivery of acquired business onboarding and platform integration, from early discovery through to successful go-live and handover.
• Leading programme planning, dependency management, cutover planning, and hypercare, coordinating across engineering, data, Salesforce, ecommerce, and enterprise systems teams to deliver high-quality, low-risk outcomes.
• Establishing and embedding repeatable, scalable delivery practices, including onboarding playbooks, runbooks, documentation standards, delivery metrics, risk tracking, and release management processes.
• Ensuring controlled, predictable go-lives across multiple integration programmes.
• Acting as a senior technical authority, championing Wilmington’s composable, microservice-based platform strategy and making sound architectural decisions on integration approaches and system design.
• Proactively identifying and mitigating technical risks and supporting the CTO with technical due diligence for future acquisitions.
• Operating across multiple scrum teams, bridging project and product delivery models, supporting backlog management and sprint planning, and embedding Agile best practices with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Building strong, trusted relationships with acquired business leadership and senior stakeholders, providing clarity, confidence, and momentum through periods of significant change.

What’s the Best Thing About This Role:

This is a rare opportunity to make a visible, lasting impact at a strategic level. You’ll play a defining role in delivering Wilmington’s technology vision within a well-structured, high-performing environment where learning and improvement are actively encouraged. Crucially, much of the foundational work has already been done. Major technical debt has been addressed, giving you the opportunity to focus on shaping the future driving innovation, scale, and integration rather than unpicking the past.

What’s the Most Challenging Thing About This Role:

You’ll be working at the intersection of technology, strategy, and stakeholder alignment across multiple businesses. While executive sponsorship is strong, success will depend on your ability to influence, bring clarity, and guide leaders through change advocating for a centralised, scalable technology approach while balancing commercial realities with technical integrity.

What We’re Looking For:

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• Deep technical background with hands-on engineering or architecture experience, providing the credibility to confidently interrogate system designs, integration strategies, and technical trade-offs.
• Strong expertise in composable, microservice-based architectures, including API design, event-driven integration, and service decomposition.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale platform integration or migration programmes across complex, multi-system and multi-vendor environments, including API integration, data migration, identity consolidation, release management, and cutover execution.
• Strong capability in Agile delivery, with experience working across multiple scrum teams and bridging project-led and product-led delivery models, applying frameworks such as Scrum and SAFe pragmatically.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience leading cross-functional delivery across teams not directly managed and influencing senior internal stakeholders and acquired business leadership.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, bringing structure, pace, and clarity to fast-moving and evolving environments.
• Beneficial experience with platforms such as Salesforce, Commercetools, Business Central, Administrate, or HubSpot, alongside exposure to M&A or post-acquisition integration programmes and backgrounds in SaaS, professional services, regulatory technology, or listed-company environments.

We know it’s not a skill, but the successful candidate must have permission to work in the role’s location by the start of their employment.

About Us:

Wilmington plc is a dynamic and expanding group of companies united by a simple purpose turning knowledge into advantage. We provide trusted information, training, and insight to professional markets across Risk & Compliance, Finance, Legal, and Insight sectors. Our businesses help organisations and professionals perform better through high-quality, relevant, and reliable knowledge. We collaborate across the Group, share success, and remain relentlessly focused on delivering value for our customers. At Wilmington plc, we celebrate individuality and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. As a Disability Confident employer, we shortlist all applicants who meet the essential role criteria and guarantee an interview for candidates with disabilities who meet these criteria. For reasonable adjustments or to apply under our interview guarantee scheme, please use the contact details provided once you have clicked apply.