Fractional CTO
Posted Today by Opus Recruitment Solutions
£70 Per hour
Outside
Onsite
City Of Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Fractional CTO will lead the strategic and technical direction of a SaaS client, focusing on strategy, architecture, and leadership while maintaining technical fluency to guide a team of six developers. This role involves ensuring the AI Platform goes live, with an emphasis on scalability, security, and alignment with business objectives. The position requires weekly on-site visits to central Bristol and acts as a bridge between executive leadership and engineering. This is an outside IR35 role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and execute the technology vision and roadmap for the Agentic AI SaaS platform.
- Provide thought leadership on AI-driven SaaS trends, agentic architectures, and B2B adoption.
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of 6 developers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
- Guide the design and build of microservices behind API Gateway (REST/HTTP), running on Lambda and/or containerized workloads on EC2/Fargate.
Key Skills:
- Experience in leading technology strategy and architecture for SaaS platforms.
- Strong understanding of AI-driven SaaS trends and agentic architectures.
- Proven leadership skills with the ability to mentor and inspire development teams.
- Technical fluency in AWS services, microservices architecture, and API Gateway.
Salary (Rate): £70.00/hr
City: City Of Bristol
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
We are seeking a Fractional CTO to lead the strategic and technical direction of our SaaS client. This role is primarily focused on strategy, architecture, and leadership, while maintaining enough hands-on technical fluency to guide a team of six developers working with a modern AWS-based stack. This is an outside IR35 role and will involve weekly on-site visits to central Bristol. The Fractional CTO will be responsible for getting the AI Platform live. From there, the focus will be ensuring scalability and security, and aligning technology decisions with business objectives. You will act as the bridge between executive leadership and engineering, ensuring the platform is delivered on time, within budget, and to enterprise-grade standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and execute the technology vision and roadmap for the Agentic AI SaaS platform.
- Provide thought leadership on AI-driven SaaS trends, agentic architectures, and B2B adoption.
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of 6 developers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
- Guide the design and build of microservices behind API Gateway (REST/HTTP), running on Lambda and/or containerized workloads on EC2/Fargate.