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Valtech is a global digital agency focused on enabling business transformation. We enable clients to anticipate tomorrow’s trends and connect more directly with their consumers across digital and physical touchpoints.
We deliver innovation with a purpose. With expertise across experience design, technology and marketing, our passion is in addressing transformational business challenges for our clients. Challenges where we re-imagine the customer journey and build new connected experiences. Challenges where we make data work in this new era and help our clients transform the way they operate and optimise business-critical digital platforms for multichannel commerce and marketing.
Operating across 5 continents with over 6,000 innovators in 22 countries, we help organisations reimagine the way they connect with their customers, leverage data and transform their business operations.
The Technical Director for Enterprise Transformation will play a key role in shaping and delivering large-scale, global transformation initiatives for our most strategic clients. You will lead a community of talented people who are passionate about building best in class digital solutions.
This is a strategic leadership role, where you will be embedded within our largest clients. You’ll work with C-level stakeholders to imagine, shape and deliver large-scale transformation initiatives whilst staying close enough to the teams who make it happen.
Our perfect candidate really cares about helping teams to make things better for users. They will be as credible as a coach and mentor for both colleagues and clients as they are as a technologist. Curiosity, critical thought, and an ability to get under the skin of our clients’ businesses will make this role seriously satisfying.
Strategic Client Leadership
Build relationships with senior technology stakeholders within our clients’ businesses.
Serve as the transformation lead for major enterprise clients, helping define, shape, and deliver vision, technology strategy and implementation and operating model amends and revisions.
Advance accounts through the identification of new opportunities, looking to ensure any upsell and cross sell opportunities are rooted in client business requirements and have robust ROI returns.
Drive strategic alignment across enterprise functions and digital workstreams, ensuring initiatives ladder up into a cohesive strategy.
Ensure business strategy alignment with the work being delivered. Be accountable for the successful delivery of the work.
Represent Valtech as a voice of authority and confidence and lead our clients through their initiatives with expert guidance becoming that trusted advisor to the client.
Act as a technical escalation point for issues within assigned clients, but where possible be proactive in identifying and dealing with issues as soon as they arise.
Technical Leadership
Provide first class technical leadership within the client environment; enable, guide and coach teams to navigate complexity and effectively deliver transformational programmes of work.
Be an enabler for Artificial Intelligence adoption to drive efficiency and innovation for clients.
Consult with senior client stakeholders to advise on technology adoption to achieve outcomes.
Identify, mentor, and develop future technical leaders within the assigned client delivery teams.
Support and influence across delivery layers, from digital platforms and product teams to governance and business capabilities.
Strengthen the technical presence and drive involvement within the global Valtech community around transformation matters and modern software delivery.
Make transformation a reality by balancing strategic direction with continuous, on-the-ground progress.
Bring industry knowledge into engagements, challenge internal assumptions and equip teams to solve big problems effectively.
Gather, generate, and synthesise strong opinions and thought leadership on technology trends. Align those trends against the business needs of Valtech and the clients.
Support client engagements by aligning technical work with Valtech and client technology, security, and certification standards and ensure technical standards and processes are upheld, delivering best-in-class solutions.
Ensure governance and decision-making processes are effective.
Have extensive experience in standards such as PCI-DSS, OWASP, ISO 27001, ISO 9001, and others, championing adherence and implementation.
People
Help teams adopt good practices and techniques to deliver quality software at pace.
Advocate for delivery methods (especially agile) and their impact on technology planning/strategy.
Ensure teams consider risks, impacts, and consequences of decisions.
Assist recruitment teams in talent acquisition aligned to the needs of client projects and alignment to Valtech’s Culture and People Growth Framework.
Validate hiring processes and ensure team composition meets delivery requirements.
Line manage and develop people through our Professional Development Processes and our People Growth Framework.
Foster an environment of psychological safety, grasping every opportunity for ongoing and continuous improvement, turning all problems into opportunities to learn and grow.
Partners
Build deep relationships with our technical partners, our client's technical partners and stay abreast of their developments and roadmaps to inform strategic decisions.
Support and sponsor technical events.
Be seen as an advocate and thought leader for the technologies we implement on behalf of our partners.
Growth
Support sales, marketing, and account management teams to explore growth opportunities within clients.
Contribute to bids and proposals, ensuring technical alignment and excellence.
Share insights and learning from client work to influence our global approaches to transformation.
Technology domains we are particularly interested in talking to you about
Here at Valtech we’re big believers that our staff are our most important asset, and as such we want to make sure we look after you.
As well as all the usual corporate benefits (hybrid & flexible working, pension, life insurance, 25 days holiday, phone, laptop, private healthcare & dental etc), we pride ourselves on our commitment to continuous learning and development, which means you’ll have a clear growth and development path, alongside access to professional coaching and online learning courses.
You’ll be joining an inclusive and diverse workforce, working on truly exciting projects with collaborative teams at a local and global level, with a big focus on health and social well-being (Cycle to Work Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, Flu Jab, regular Company Days, and staff parties).
We design experiences that work for all kinds of people - and that starts with our own teams. At Valtech, we’re intentional about building an inclusive culture where everyone feels supported to grow, thrive and achieve their goals. No matter your background, you belong here. Explore our Diversity & Inclusion site to see how we’re creating a more equitable Valtech for all.
Once you apply, our Talent Acquisition team will review your application. Your CV should cover key information on relevant experiences and expertise. We do not require information such as age, gender, marital status, or a headshot in your application. We review all candidates based on skills, experience, and potential.
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We are committed to inclusion and accessibility. If you need reasonable accommodations during the interview process, please either indicate it in your application or let your Talent Partner know.