Director of Technical Delivery

Company Outline

Job Role: Director of Technical Delivery

Location: Hybrid - London, EC4R

Salary: Circa £100,000 - £110,000 (DoE) + Bonus!

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time

What We Can Offer You: 25 Days Annual Leave, Additional Holiday Purchase, Hybrid Working, Performance-Related Bonus, Life Assurance, Vitality Private Healthcare, Subsidised Gym Memberships, Cycle to Work scheme, Discount Vouchers and 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.

Please note: To complete your application, you will be redirected to Wilmington plc’s career site.

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”!

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 support 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.

Essential And Desirable Capabilities

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.

Before you go....

About Us

We’re Wilmington plc, a group of businesses united by governance, risk and compliance. Acting as a trusted partner, we help our customers to do the right business in the right way as they navigate the Regulatory Compliance landscape. If you’re looking for innovation, opportunity, and community, you’ll find them all and more here.

Join us and do Work That Means Something

At Wilmington plc, we help global customers to do the right business in the right way - providing trusted data, insights, and education to navigate the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) landscape.

When you join us, you’ll not only make a real difference for our customers, you’ll also enjoy flexibility through hybrid working and benefit from a wide range of learning, career, and development opportunities.

Whether you're just starting out, returning to work after a break, or looking to take your next step, you’ll be doing work with meaning.

Join us and make a real difference. Click on “APPLY” today!

The Legal Bit!

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this role. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

• Please note that this role may remain advertised until an offer of employment has been made.