Strategic Technology Business Partner

Understanding Recruitment Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Understanding Recruitment Ltd is seeking an experienced Strategic Technology Business Partner to bridge the Technology function and senior leadership, shaping priorities and ensuring value-driven investment. You will translate strategic goals into a technology roadmap and collaborate with MD/SLT/C-suite stakeholders.

The role focuses on prioritising demand across platforms, data, AI and automation, balancing long-term strategy with actionable delivery in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Experience partnering with MD/SLT/C-suite level stakeholders.
• Proven track record shaping technology demand, roadmaps and investment.
• Delivery of measurable business outcomes through technology (cost, productivity, growth).
• Broad understanding of platforms, data, AI, automation, cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Act as the key link between Technology and senior leadership.
• Translate business strategy into a clear technology roadmap.
• Assess and prioritise competing demands and develop strong business cases.
• Challenge senior stakeholders when value is not delivered and propose better alternatives.

Skills

Tech business partnering

Stakeholder management

Strategic roadmaps

C-suite influence

Job description

A large, UK wide organisation is looking for an experienced Strategic Technology Business Partner to act as the key link between its Technology function and senior leadership. This is a high-impact role focused on understanding business strategy, shaping technology priorities and ensuring investment delivers genuine, measurable value.

You will partner closely with senior leadership-level stakeholders, understanding their strategic and operational priorities and translating these into a clear technology roadmap. You will assess and prioritise competing demands, develop and challenge business cases, identify opportunities across areas such as platforms, data, AI and automation, and ensure divisional priorities align with the wider Technology strategy.

This is not a traditional relationship-led IT Business Partner position. You will need the credibility to challenge senior stakeholders, confidently say no where something does not deliver sufficient value and offer better alternatives. The environment is fast-moving and evolving, so you will need to be comfortable navigating ambiguity, bringing new ideas into the organisation and balancing longer-term strategic thinking with a willingness to roll your sleeves up and get things moving.

The successful Strategic Technology Business Partner will have:

• 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.