Chief Technology Officer

Job Role: Chief Technology Officer

Location: Hybrid - Office based in London EC4R

Salary: 170000 (DOE) 20% performance-related bonus

Contract Type: Full Time Permanent

What We Can Offer You: 30 Days Annual Leave 20% Share Package Additional Holiday Purchase Hybrid Working Life Assurance Vitality Private Healthcare Subsidised Gym Memberships Cycle to Work Scheme Discount Vouchers and Access to Wellbeing Resources

Why do we want you

We are seeking a bold visionary and hands-on Chief Technology Officer to lead Wilmington plcs technology strategy at a defining moment in our journey.

Wilmington is undergoing a significant evolution repositioning itself as a RegTech Business Services platform. Technology is no longer a support function it is the engine that will drive our growth differentiation and longterm success.

This role exists because we are serious about transformation.

As CTO you will play a central role in shaping how Wilmington looks operates and competes in the future. You will unite platforms people data and products into a coherent scalable and futureready technology ecosystem that enables innovation at pace.

This is a rare opportunity to leave a lasting legacy: architecting a modern technology landscape embedding AI at scale and leading change across an acquisitive ambitious business.

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At Wilmington plc we celebrate individuality and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. As a Disability Confident employer we shortlist all applicants who meet the essential role criteria and guarantee an interview for candidates with disabilities who meet these criteria. For reasonable adjustments or to apply under our interview guarantee scheme please use the contact details provided once you have clicked apply!

Reporting directly to the CEO the CTO is accountable for defining and delivering Wilmingtons technology vision ensuring it underpins our strategic ambitions and accelerates transformation across the group.

You will operate as a trusted executive leader shaping corporate strategy guiding investment decisions and ensuring technology enables innovation scalability and sustainable growth. This role blends strategic leadership with handson influence setting direction while ensuring delivery excellence.

You will be responsible for:

• Leading the delivery of a modern composable architecture across proprietary platforms cloud infrastructure (AWS Azure GCP) CI/CD pipelines and core business systems such as Salesforce.
• Ensuring technology scalability and integration capability to support ongoing acquisitions and rapid business growth.
• Building inspiring and leading a highperforming futurefocused technology function spanning Engineering Architecture Data and Systems.
• Embedding a culture of technical excellence learning accountability and continuous improvement.
• Championing Agile and productled delivery models that drive measurable business outcomes.
• Defining and executing an ambitious AI strategy unlocking value from LLMs and emerging technologies while ensuring governance ethics and IP protection.
• Designing and overseeing an internal AI operations platform that integrates enterprise systems automation workflows and data assets.
• Establishing robust AI governance frameworks aligned with regulatory expectations and industry best practice.
• Driving AIassisted development approaches to significantly enhance productivity quality and speedtomarket.
• Managing strategic technology partnerships and vendors to maximise value innovation and performance.
• Setting enterprisewide technical standards to ensure consistency resilience and longterm sustainability.
• Improving operational efficiency availability and performance across infrastructure and services.
• Supporting strategic planning financial oversight and investment business cases at executive level.
• Leading technology input into product and platform roadmaps aligned to businessunit priorities.
• Acting as a visible credible technology leader both internally and externally representing Wilmingtons vision and capability.

Whats the Best Thing About This Role

Youll have a genuine opportunity to shape Wilmingtons future with technology firmly at the heart of the group strategy. Youll have strong visibility and influence at executive and board level and the space to set direction rather than simply react.

Youll be working with an established technology organisation and leadership team with clear momentum behind modern platforms cloud data and AI giving you the chance to focus on building and evolving rather than untangling legacy.

Whats the Most Challenging Thing About This Role

One of the key challenges is balancing a groupwide technology vision with the practical realities of a diverse multibrand organisation. Youll need to bring businesses with you aligning differing priorities levels of maturity and expectations while still holding a clear line on standards architecture and longterm direction.

To be successful in this role you must have:

• Deep expertise in cloud architecture (AWS Azure or GCP) including largescale resilient system design and frameworks such as WellArchitected with the ability to clearly communicate complex concepts to nontechnical stakeholders.
• Strong experience in Enterprise Architecture solution design and delivering complex technology transformations at scale.
• Proven capability in modern engineering practices including containerisation CI/CD pipelines Agile delivery and code quality tooling.
• Strong understanding of data platforms visualisation and product management principles translating market and technology trends into compelling roadmaps.
• Experience with CRM platforms (Salesforce and/or Dynamics 365) elearning platforms and dataled or information services environments.
• Demonstrable success leading M&A technology integration from due diligence through to postacquisition execution.
• Strong research orientation with a passion for identifying assessing and embedding emerging technologies.
• Extensive experience (10 years) in senior technology leadership roles within digitally enabled platformdriven or medialed environments.
• Handson experience with AI and LLM platforms (e.g. Claude GPT) including an understanding of capabilities tradeoffs and enterprise adoption.
• Working knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agentic AI architectures with experience integrating AI securely and at scale.
• Practical experience in enterprise AI governance prompt engineering and deployment approaches (including RAG finetuning considerations and risk mitigation).
• Experience leveraging AIassisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot Claude Code) to materially improve engineering productivity and delivery outcomes.

We know its not a skill but the successful candidate must have permission to work in the roles location by the start of their employment.

About us

Were Wilmington plc a group of businesses united by governance risk and compliance. Acting as a trusted partner we help our customers to do the right business in the right way as they navigate the Regulatory Compliance landscape. If youre looking for innovation opportunity and community youll find them all and more here.

Join us and do Work That Means Something

At Wilmington plc we help global customers to do the right business in the right way - providing trusted data insights and education to navigate the Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) landscape.

When you join us youll not only make a real difference for our customers youll also enjoy flexibility through hybrid working and benefit from a wide range of learning career and development opportunities.

Whether youre just starting out returning to work after a break or looking to take your next step youll be doing work with meaning.

Join us and make a real difference. Click on APPLY today!

The Legal Bit!

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*Please note that this role may remain advertised until an offer of employment has been made.

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