Global Head of Technology & Architecture

ActAI; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ActAI is seeking a Chief Technology Officer to own technology strategy, architecture, and engineering standards across the Group. This role operates across multiple businesses while staying close to systems, architecture and engineering execution.

You will recruit and assess senior engineers, review critical systems, set standards for reliability, security, performance, testing and code quality, and drive productivity across platforms.

Qualifications

• Deep software engineering background with experience building and scaling production systems.
• Strong knowledge of backend systems, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Experience making architecture decisions across multiple products or engineering teams.
• Strong technical judgement and ability to challenge engineering decisions at implementation level.
• Capable of building world-class engineering teams.
• Still technically hands-on - able to review code, architecture, incidents and difficult engineering problems directly.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and major technical decisions across group products and platforms.
• Review critical systems, architecture, infrastructure and code directly.
• Set engineering standards across reliability, security, performance, testing and code quality.
• Identify technical debt and architecture constraints and drive their resolution.
• Improve engineering productivity, development speed and production reliability.
• Decide where technology and infrastructure should be shared across Group businesses.
• Recruit and assess senior engineers, technical leads and engineering leaders.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend systems

Architecture decisions

Technical judgement

Engineering leadership

Code review

Job description

ActAI is seeking a Chief Technology Officer to own technology strategy, architecture, and engineering standards across the Group. This role operates across multiple businesses while staying close to systems, architecture and engineering execution.

You will recruit and assess senior engineers, review critical systems, set standards for reliability, security, performance, testing and code quality, and drive productivity across platforms.