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About the Role

The Head of Technology is a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, responsible for shaping and executing the organization's technology strategy. This role drives technology, digital transformation, innovation, and operational resilience to support sustainable business growth within a defined risk framework.

Responsibilities

• Act as an active member of the SLT, contributing to strategy, prioritization, and business decision-making.
• Provide strategic technology leadership, insight, and challenge.
• Represent technology interests at SLT level, articulating opportunities, risks, constraints, dependencies, and investment requirements.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to balance competing priorities and ensure alignment with strategic objectives.
• Contribute to company-wide discussions on risk management, innovation, operational effectiveness, and long-term organizational capability.
• Define and deliver the technology strategy in alignment with organizational objectives.
• Identify, evaluate, and implement technology solutions to improve efficiency, scalability, profitability, and organizational effectiveness.
• Champion the adoption of emerging technologies, including AI-enabled solutions, where they provide measurable business benefit.
• Lead, develop, and inspire the technology function, creating a high-performing and future-focused team.
• Own the technology department budget, ensuring effective investment, cost control, value realization, and alignment with strategic priorities.
• Develop business cases for technology expenditure and investment, demonstrating expected outcomes, benefits, risks, and return on investment.
• Anticipate future technology and capability needs, providing clear recommendations for long-term business planning.
• Identify opportunities where strategic objectives require structured program delivery.
• Lead the design, governance, and oversight of business and technology transformation programs.
• Work closely with Project Success and business stakeholders to ensure appropriate project management support and governance.
• Oversee program delivery, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities, effective management of risks and dependencies, and achievement of intended outcomes.
• Provide clear and concise reporting to the SLT on program performance, benefits realization, risks, and opportunities.
• Ensure technology services, projects, and initiatives align with organizational priorities and risk appetite, balancing operational delivery with long-term innovation and transformation objectives.
• Maintain oversight of major technology initiatives, ensuring effective coordination of dependencies across the business.
• Track and communicate the business impact of technology investments, including efficiency gains, cost optimization, resilience improvements, and capability enhancement.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and responsible adoption of technology.

Requirements

• Significant leadership experience within a technology, cyber, digital transformation, or operational delivery environment.
• Experience operating at a senior leadership level and contributing to organizational strategy.
• Proven ability to develop and deliver technology strategy that drives business outcomes.
• Experience leading complex programs, change initiatives, and cross-functional delivery teams.
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to build compelling investment and resource cases.
• Experience leading and developing senior technical professionals and managers.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and influencing skills, including at Executive and Board level.
• Strong analytical and systems-thinking capability, with the ability to simplify complex issues and support effective decision-making.
• Desirable: Programme management qualifications or demonstrable experience leading complex organizational technological transformation programmes.

Skills

• AI-enabled solutions
• Technology strategy
• Digital transformation
• Operational resilience
• Risk management
• Innovation
• Stakeholder engagement
• Communication
• Influencing
• Analytical thinking
• Systems thinking
• Commercial awareness
• Program management
• Information security management
• IT service management
• Project management

Location

• Global

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior leadership

Education Level

• CISMP (Certificate in Information Security Management Principles) or equivalent information security qualification.
• ITIL certification.
• PRINCE2 Practitioner (or equivalent project/programme management qualification).
• MSP (Managing Successful Programmes) or equivalent programme management qualification.

About the Company

• PGI is a global consultancy that helps organisations build digital resilience.
• We deploy our people to implement solutions on behalf of clients or to support them in developing their own capabilities.
• Our vision is a world resilient to digital threats and online harm.
• Our clients include some of the most well-known global brands, national governments, and innovative growing businesses.
• We operate in an exciting, fast-growing sector that bears increasing relevance and importance to nation-states, corporates, universities, and NGOs.

Equal Opportunity

• As a British company which operates internationally, we draw strength from the diversity of our people.
• By hiring and cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce, we can uphold values that enable every member of the team to thrive, while delivering novel solutions to novel problems.
• Every individual has different requirements, so we are committed to implementing reasonable adjustments to mitigate physical and non-physical barriers in the workplace.
• We strive to make the recruitment process as accessible as possible, but if you have any questions or concerns, please get in touch.