Head of Technical Delivery

SelectScience®; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits package

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Competitive benefits

Job summary

A leading digital publishing firm near Bath is seeking a Head of Technical Delivery to lead engineering, data, and IT functions. This full-time hybrid role involves driving product delivery, technical execution, and ensuring system scalability, performance, and security. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in technical leadership, team development, and managing multidisciplinary collaborations. You will enjoy a supportive culture and a competitive benefits package, along with opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in engineering, data, AI, and IT operations.
• Passion for delivering high-quality product iterations.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering, data, and IT functions.
• Own product delivery roadmap and drive technical execution.
• Ensure scalability, security, and reliability of digital platforms.
• Manage sprint planning, QA, and release processes.
• Collaborate with senior leadership and external partners.
• Ensure robust cybersecurity, compliance, governance and monitoring processes.
• Collaborate closely with senior leadership, aligning technical execution with business goals.
• Manage internal and external engineering, data and IT vendors and partners.
• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Oversee data infrastructure, analytics tooling, event tracking and delivery of AI-driven capabilities.

Skills

Technical leadership

Team development

Architectural decision-making

Cybersecurity compliance

Collaboration

Continuous improvement

Job description

You are an energetic and focused technical leader who thrives in a fast‑moving digital environment. Motivated by delivering exceptional products, driving high‑performing teams, and elevating technical quality, you excel at turning complex requirements into scalable, secure and high‑value solutions.

Bringing your strong experience across engineering, data, AI and IT operations, to make confident architectural decisions and lead multidisciplinary teams. You have a passion for continuous improvement, operational excellence and delivering predictable, high‑quality product iterations that create meaningful value for both customers and colleagues.

Your client and product-first mindset and commitment to technical excellence will thrive in a collaborative, commercially focused environment where innovation, delivery and purpose go hand-in-hand.

About us

At SelectScience® we are accelerating science by connecting scientific communities with trusted solutions. We produce and publish high-quality digital content and deliver content marketing solutions, whilst also informing scientists about the best products and technologies in their field through the power of peer‑to‑peer recommendation and reviews.

We are an essential partner to deliver value to marketers and businesses in the USA, Europe, UK and Asia Pacific. Our Headquarters is near Bath and Bristol, and we are an established brand with over 26 years of experience in digital publishing.

The role

As Head of Technical Delivery, you will lead the engineering, data and IT functions to ensure SelectScience’s digital products, systems and platforms are delivered, supported and continuously improved. You will own the product delivery roadmap, drive technical execution, and ensure reliability, performance and security across all systems.

You will work closely with Product, Commercial, Editorial and external technology partners to deliver high‑quality platform enhancements, new features and scalable technical solutions that support our growth.

This is a full‑time hybrid role, reporting directly to the CEO.

Snapshot of the role

• Lead and develop high‑performing engineering, data and IT operations teams.
• Drive predictable delivery of product iterations, new features and system improvements.
• Make key architectural decisions to ensure platforms remain scalable, secure and customer‑centric.
• Oversee sprint planning, execution, QA and release processes.
• Own the stability, reliability and performance of digital platforms, systems and integrations.
• Ensure robust cybersecurity, compliance, governance and monitoring processes.
• Collaborate closely with senior leadership, aligning technical execution with business goals.
• Manage internal and external engineering, data and IT vendors and partners.
• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Oversee data infrastructure, analytics tooling, event tracking and delivery of AI‑driven capabilities.

A few reasons why you will love this job:

• A high‑impact leadership role shaping the future of SelectScience’s digital platforms.
• Huge opportunity for professional growth, autonomy and influence.
• Hybrid working, competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.
• Friendly, collaborative and innovative culture.
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays.

Our team has an infectious drive for innovation, creativity and supporting the scientific community. At SelectScience, we promote passion, teamwork, trust and striving to be the best we can.