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Permanent

Head of Technical

Hunter Selection
Southampton
money-bag £100000 - £120000/annum 25 days holiday, pension
Posted: 24 July 2026 (Today)
Closing date: 23 August 2026
Ref: 225410603

Head of Technical

Up to -120k

Southampton

Hybrid- 3 or 4 days on site

Benefits:

25 days holiday increasing up to 30

Flexible working

16 full weeks of maternity

5% matched pension

Annual bonuses

I am working with a well-respected UK client looking for someone to lead their technical team and provide strategic insight into the team.

They are looking for someone to provide strategic technical leadership for secure defense applications and maintain the technical architecture and roadmap for the software house.

You should be someone who has a good approach to modern engineering and emerging technologies.

Day-to-day responsibilities:

Working alongside the head of delivery to ensure technical decisions and strategies are in line with the defense applications.

Working with the company to ensure the delivery of the applications is efficient

Key stakeholder engagement

Drive modern engineering practice

Exposure to AI, Data platforms and machine learning

Reduce strategic dependency

Translate business needs into coherent technical strategy.

Requirements:

Knowledge of Cloud, APIs, CI/CD, Automation and Platform engineering

Experience building and assessing technology investments

Managing technical risk, scalability and security

Stakeholder engagement experience

Ability to govern architecture and engineering practices

Government or highly regulated environment industry experience

Exposure to data platforms and machine learning

This is an urgent vacancy, so if you would like to be considered then please apply quoting reference AR(phone number removed).

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If you are interested in this position please click ''apply''.

Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.


Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

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