The Head of Technology is an integral leadership team role for the European Hub, helping our clients accelerate their digital journey while playing a key role in growing AND Digital’s European business.
The Head of Technology will be experienced in leading large and complex technology transformations and will have a breadth of understanding of many aspects of digital delivery within large enterprises - product, insight, data, and people change, underpinned by deep technology expertise.
The role will be involved in client delivery, business development, research & development, and external networking and speaking.
What you will be doing
- Act as Technology advisor for the portfolio of European clients - create artefacts, thought leadership, templates, case studies, AND Chats etc
- Lead on business development activities for European clients (Our clients are spread across the Netherlands and Germany)
- Lead on research & development - trends, innovations and points of view that makes us stand out from the crowd
- Work across clients as demand dictates
- For client work:
- Provide technology leadership, working closely with client stakeholders - CTO, CDO, CMO, CIO and Head of Engineering roles to developers and BA’s
- Advise and suggest technology strategies to align with business vision - web, mobile, API, frameworks, cloud, platforms
- Review, plan, lead and execute activities required to improve ways of working and effectiveness of technology delivery and governance for our clients
- Prepare and deliver technology reviews and assessments of current technology solutions, roadmaps and architecture
- Facilitate and deliver a software selection process appropriate for the client - combining bespoke and commercial software solutions
- Design and shape reference architecture with an emphasis on digital
- Propose architecture to work alongside legacy and heritage applications to enable rapid deployment of customer benefiting functionality
- Design API integration strategies - enabling effective use of existing client technologies
- Recommend and select technology platforms and frameworks, taking into account current architecture and client investments
- Introduce new and emerging technology initiatives leading the way in technology innovation for clients
- Work alongside Digital Transformation Managers to pull together the discovery, activation and shaping of all technology aspects of the engagement
- Apply a commercial mindset throughout an engagement - taking a total cost of ownership view on your proposed technology recommendations
- Get hands on with the work, beyond leading and directing - producing key artefacts, technology roadmaps, onsite reviews, blueprints, strategy documents, solution selection templates, facilitation and delivery of technology workshops
- Deliver the right technology outcome, not just the agreed outputs - seeing the bigger picture in terms of the value the client is actually looking for
Must-haves
- You are a highly credible technologist, an excellent communicator, with strong client and stakeholder management and consulting skills
- Experience and credibility, operating at CxO level
- You enjoy leading, driving and ultimately landing the technology for your client amidst a complex set of risks or issues
- Breadth of consulting and professional services experience, delivering technology enabled engagements across a range of clients and organisations
- Focused technology specialism - you will have spent the majority of your career in a technology role
- Good knowledge of digital delivery - particularly through Product, Technology and People change, backed with your own insights and POVs in technology
- Ability to persuade and influence client stakeholders with recommended technology direction
- Comfortable moving between various client assignments throughout your career within AND
- You speak Dutch fluently and have a strong network in the Netherlands
Joining AND
From the work we deliver, to the way we serve and support our people, we work hard to ensure that there’s nowhere quite like AND. But joining a company is a two-way street: the fit has to work on both sides. So before you apply, here’s three key things to understand about us:
- We’re built for people - like, real humans. Not ‘resources’ or ‘staff’. That means happiness and wellbeing really do matter to us, and we hate unnecessary hierarchy and bureaucracy.
- There’s no well-trodden path ahead: AND is growing fast and forging a new trail. That’s exciting, and gives us all the autonomy and opportunity we love - but bear in mind it also demands focus, patience and resilience. There is a brilliant opportunity to shape the way that consulting develops and is perceived across wider AND.
- Diversity is a priority. After all, to build great products that a wide variety of different people love to use, we need a wide variety of people to help us build them. So diversity is more than a policy or a word: it’s business critical for us.
