Director, Platform Delivery — Strategic Tech Leader

Carnival UK (P&O Cruises & Cunard); Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Discounted Cruising

Annual bonus

Friendly welcome and settling-in

Regular office events

Learning and development opportunities

25 days leave and holidays

Employee Assistance and Wellbeing

Pension scheme

Private medical and dental insurance

Parental and adoption leave

Employee Shares Plan

Discounted retail and leisure

Job summary

Carnival UK in Southampton seeks a Director, Platform Delivery to steer the technological direction across P&O Cruises, Cunard ships and Head Office. You will lead platform delivery teams and shape roadmaps to balance new capabilities with technical debt while ensuring security and reliability.

The role requires an executive leader who can influence senior stakeholders, develop teams and drive a data-led, risk-balanced platform strategy; hybrid working is available with up to two days from

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading large-scale platform delivery within complex digital and technology environments.
• Proven track record of delivering resilient, secure and scalable technology platforms.
• Strong commercial, engineering and operational judgement, including experience managing strategic vendors and technology portfolios.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end delivery, evolution and performance of DTO platforms, ensuring stability, scalability, security and alignment with the DTO technology strategy.
• Shape platform roadmaps, balancing investment in new capability with debt reduction while maintaining platform reliability.
• Lead and develop high-performing platform delivery teams, building technical, engineering, architectural and operational capability.
• Act as the senior integration point across platform, product and shared service teams, managing dependencies and ensuring platform change enables product delivery.

Education

Degree-level qualification in Business, Technology, Engineering or related discipline

Job description

Carnival UK in Southampton seeks a Director, Platform Delivery to steer the technological direction across P&O Cruises, Cunard ships and Head Office. You will lead platform delivery teams and shape roadmaps to balance new capabilities with technical debt while ensuring security and reliability.

The role requires an executive leader who can influence senior stakeholders, develop teams and drive a data-led, risk-balanced platform strategy; hybrid working is available with up to two days from