Interim Director of Technical Transformation (6-month contract, outside IR35)
hedgehog lab · GB
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About the Role
Our client, a well-established UK media business, is undergoing significant organizational and technical transformation. They require an interim technical leader to provide senior architecture direction during the bedding-in period of their permanent architecture ownership model. This is a hands-on role involving direct technical decision-making and visible leadership to support engineering teams transitioning into new disciplines, particularly Agentic Engineering.
Responsibilities
- Own technical direction and decision-making across the transformation: architecture, agentic engineering, technical governance
- Lead end-state and transitional architecture using live projects
- Provide interim architecture leadership and support the client's architects until the permanent model is resolved
- Set and uphold engineering standards through the transition
- Support engineering teams retraining towards Agentic and Design Engineering with hands-on mentorship
- Establish agentic and design engineering as working practices: spec-driven delivery (spec, grounded generation, tests alongside code, automated checks, human sign-off), what "production-ready" means, and proportionate guardrails
- Close AI identity and access management skills gaps, and productionising LLM-powered applications, through embedded mentorship
- Own the technical handover to permanent leadership at the end of the engagement
- Work closely with the Interim Director of Process Transformation so technical and process change land together
- Provide technical governance for agentic and design engineering as those disciplines mature
Requirements
- Senior technical leadership experience with hands-on architecture credibility
- Experience developing end-state and transitional architecture for live, operating platforms
- Hands-on experience building agentic engineering practice from scratch
- Experience leading and supporting engineering teams through skills and role change
- Experience providing technical leadership and governance during organisational change
- A track record of clean handovers
- Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to start on 28th September
Skills
- Architecture
- Agentic Engineering
- Technical Governance
- Design Engineering
- AI Identity and Access Management
- LLM-powered applications
- Spec-driven delivery
- Grounded generation
- Automated checks
- Human sign-off
- Production-ready standards
- Proportionate guardrails
Location
- London
Work Type
- Outside IR35
- Day-rate contract
- 6 months
- Up to 2 days a week on-site
Experience Level
- Senior technical leadership
About the Company
- Well-established UK media business