IT Director - South West

IT Director - South West

A high-profile financial services organisation is seeking an experienced IT Director to provide strategic technology leadership across a complex, large-scale environment.

This is a pivotal position, joining both an executive leadership team and the companies global technology leadership group. The IT Director will have significant influence over business-critical technology, digital strategy, and organisational change.

As IT Director the successful candidate will drive the end-to-end technology strategy, oversee large-scale change programmes and ensure alignment with global platforms and enterprise-wide transformation initiatives.

In this role the successful candidate would be managing a technology operation of approximately 300 people with five senior direct reports across areas such as Information Security, Architecture, Software Engineering, Digital platforms and Data.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a senior technology leader who thrives in complex, regulated environments and enjoys leading modernisation at scale.

Below are some of the key responsibilities for the role:

• Define and execute the technology strategy
• Lead large-scale digital, data, and systems transformation initiatives.
• Oversee service delivery, engineering, architecture, and core platform evolution.
• Provide proactive leadership as part of the executive team, shaping organisational direction.
• Represent the UK within a global technology leadership community.
• Own senior-level stakeholder engagement across business, operations, and global functions.
• Drive performance, capability uplift, and cultural alignment across a distributed technology function.
• Ensure technology governance, operational resilience, and compliance within a regulated environment.

In order to be considered for this role the following experience is required:

• Proven Senior IT leadership experience within highly regulated environments and in the Financial Services sector.
• A track record of leading enterprise-wide technology change at pace and scale.
• Experience managing large multi-disciplinary technology teams.
• Strong exposure to outsourcing / offshoring, vendor management, or complex delivery models.
• Experience with platform consolidation, integration and merger-driven technology change.
• Clear strategic vision combined with hands-on leadership of operations, delivery, and transformation
• Previous experience working in a post-merger environment

This role is being offered as a 12 Month Fixed-Term contract opportunity, in addition to the base salary this role will come with an excellent benefits package including bonus, car and generous pension.