Technical Director

A few words about us 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 Role 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.