Strategic Tech Partner: Aligning AI, Platforms & Value

Understanding Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Understanding Recruitment is seeking a Strategic Technology Business Partner to link the Technology function with senior leadership in London. The role requires shaping priorities, building a clear technology roadmap and ensuring investments deliver measurable value across platforms, data, AI and automation.

You will challenge senior stakeholders and navigate competing demands in a fast-moving, hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• Strong Technology/IT Business Partnering experience, operating with MD, SLT or C-suite level stakeholders.
• Proven experience shaping and prioritising technology demand, roadmaps and investment against wider business strategy.
• Clear examples of delivering measurable business outcomes through technology, such as cost reduction, productivity, growth, service improvement or risk reduction.
• Broad understanding of enterprise technology, with the ability to identify opportunities across platforms, data, AI, automation, cloud and wider IT services.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to constructively challenge senior leaders and navigate competing priorities.
• Experience operating effectively within complex, fast-moving or matrixed organisations, combining strategic thinking with a pragmatic, hands-on approach.

Responsibilities

• Act as the key link between Technology and senior leadership to align strategy.
• Understand business strategy, shaping technology priorities and ensuring investment delivers value.
• Partner with senior leaders to translate priorities into a technology roadmap.
• Assess and prioritise demands, develop and challenge business cases, identify opportunities across platforms, data, AI and automation.
• Ensure divisional priorities align with the wider Technology strategy.

Skills

Technology business partnering

Stakeholder management

Roadmapping & prioritisation

Data & AI understanding

Cloud & IT services

Strategic thinking

Job description

Understanding Recruitment is seeking a Strategic Technology Business Partner to link the Technology function with senior leadership in London. The role requires shaping priorities, building a clear technology roadmap and ensuring investments deliver measurable value across platforms, data, AI and automation.

You will challenge senior stakeholders and navigate competing demands in a fast-moving, hybrid environment.