Technical Director, Blenheim Chalcot
Up to 10% bonus
4+ days a week in office (White City)
Digital venture builders
Job no longer available
Digital venture builders
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
Up to 10% bonus
4+ days a week in office (White City)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To support digital startups with funding and business operations, allowing them to focus on becoming industry disruptors.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have a track-record in delivering results in a fast-moving business and hence be comfortable with change and uncertainty. Excellent stakeholder management experience is essential to being successful in this role
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership role managing engineering teams
- Demonstrable experience with microservices architecture and AWS cloud services
- Familiarity with a range of programming languages and frameworks relevant to our stack, including but not limited to Python, React, GraphQL
- Proven success in delivering complex, high-priority projects with significant impact
- Strong understanding of the Agile development process and experience overseeing a continuous delivery pipeline
- Excellent leadership and people management skills, with the ability to inspire, motivate, and drive technical excellence
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities, comfortable engaging with stakeholders at all levels
- A strategic thinker who can balance technical direction with business strategy
- Passion for education technology and a vested interest in shaping the future of learning
- Be able to operate at a range of levels – both in terms of big picture strategic thinking, thought leadership and getting into the data and analysis
What the job involves
- The Technical Director a vital role within Hive Learning. The role will report into the CEO and be a key part of the team that leads Hive through this next phase of rapid growth
- The successful Technical Director will be at the forefront of setting the direction of the technical vision and ensuring that Hive Learnings technical operations are delivered effectively and efficiently, whilst addressing key technical challenges and opportunities
- Working very closely with our customers you will work to understand the core requirements for our platform to operate safely, securely and effectively within their digital environments
- The Technical Director will have a collaborative role working across many teams and customer groups
- Working closely with the CEO to develop and align a clear technical vision and direction for the platform, ensuring alignment with company goals
- Overseeing the UK and India Engineering team to monitor and ensure smooth operation of technical aspects of the platform
- Collaborating with engineering and product to ensure seamless execution of technical strategies
- Working closely with various departments including Product, RND, Engineering, Customer Support and Sales to ensure technical coherence and efficiency
- Strategic technical leadership - develop and articulate a clear technical vision and direction for the platform, ensuring alignment with the company's business goals and customer needs
- Issue identification and resolution - proactively identify technical issues and bottlenecks that may impact product performance or customer experience. Facilitate the development of solutions without directly engaging in engineering tasks
- Technology trends and innovation - stay abreast of emerging technology trends and innovations in the SaaS and ed-tech space. Advise on potential opportunities for platform enhancement and innovation
- Stakeholder communication - effectively communicate technical strategies and updates to internal stakeholders and external partners, ensuring clarity and alignment
- Risk management and compliance - oversee technical risk management strategies and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations
- Ensure adherence to best practices for software development, including code reviews, automated testing, and DevOps principles
- Work with our commercial team and enterprise customers to deliver a safe and secure platform
- Be customer facing in technical conversations supporting the onboarding of Hive as a platform in large complex organisations
- Ensure our technology practices comply with regulatory standards
- Advocate Agile and Lean methodologies, facilitating continuous integration and delivery, and encouraging a mindset of continuous improvement
- Work with engineer team globally to direct the architecture, development, quality, reliability and operation of our learning platform, ensuring robust performance and alignment with business goals
- Manage the engineering budget, delivering projects on time and within allocated resources
- Mentor and develop team members, identifying opportunities for growth and facilitating career development
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Blenheim Chalcot is a digital startup venture builder. It raises funding and provides operational support for fledgling companies to allow them to focus on building an exceptional product to take to market. Blenheim Chalcot takes a different approach than its more traditional competitors by investing knowledge, experience, ideas, infrastructure, and funds. Companies are started in-house and given everything they need to become a successful tech firm.
Blenheim Chalcot specialises in SaaS and generative AI startups and more recently has branched into healthcare tech, a rapidly expanding sector. Companies in their portfolio include financial services, education, media and marketing, public services and health as well as sports market companies, with over 60 businesses amounting to more than $500 million in annual revenues.
Blenheim Chalcot has had a number of significant exits in the past few years – just 3 years after its launch, ClearScore was acquired by Experian for £275m in 2018. Its portfolio has been responsible for employing over 3000 people and investment raises surpassing $600 million. Its laurels then, indicate a savvy and successful business investment venture.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Be part of the UK’s leading digital venture builder and have the opportunity to be a part of and learn from the incredible talent in BC
- A fun and open, if a little cricket-obsessed, atmosphere
- Discretionary bonus
- 25 days of paid holidays
- Life Assurance – 4 x annual salary. Pension Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme
- Flexible Benefits: Private Medical and Dental, Gym Subsidiaries
Company HQ
Shepherd's Bush, London, UK
Leadership
Charles Mindenhall
(Co-Founder)Oxford graduate and serial entrepreneur. Previously founded Liberis (small business finance). Currently Board Member at Modulr, trustee of The Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Youth Zone.
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