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Posted 05 August, 2026

Technical Director

Experis UK
South East, ENG, GB Full Time

Job Description

Technical Director - Permanent

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SC Cleared

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Southampton

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Up to £120,000 + bonus

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Our client, a high profiling technology organisation, urgently require an experienced Technical Director to run a major Maritime programme that they are delivering.

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In order to be successful, you will have the following background:

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  • Background within either UK Military, or working with the Military/MoD as a customer
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  • Experience of acting as a senior technical authority, providing architectural leadership
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  • Enterprise Architecture background across software engineering and platform delivery, including cloud-hosted services, APIs, DevSecOps, CI/CD and test automation
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  • Experience of introducing emerging technologies including AI, ML and data enabled services
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  • Strong and robust stakeholder management skills
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  • SC Cleared
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Within this role, you will be responsible for:

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  • Senior leadership role within a multi-year delivery environment, supporting thousands of uniformed personnel and civil servants
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  • Set the technical direction for the software house, ensuring digital products and services are aligned to MoD priorities and wider defence policy
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  • Define and maintain technical architecture roadmap
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  • Translate operational and business needs into coherent technical strategy
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  • Ensure that platforms, products, data, integration patterns and engineering approaches support long-term mission outcomes as well as immediate delivery priorities
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  • Provide technical leadership across complex code, low-code, data and platform services
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  • Work with stakeholders across MoD organisations
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  • Lead the approach surrounding modern engineering and emerging technologies
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  • Provide governance, assurance and risk management across the delivery portfolio
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  • Tech: Python, TypeScript, React, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub, Tekton and associated DevSecOps toolchains, Saas platforms, Microsoft Power Platform, Palantir Foundry
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This represents an excellent opportunity to secure a long term role, within a high profile and dynamic organisation.