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09.11.2008 Technical Director
Pod1 is looking for a Technical Director to join their award winning digital agency. You will play a key role in driving forward technical innovation to keep Pod1 ahead of the pack by providing strong technical leadership and consultative role to the technical team related to strategy, architecture and product development. You will work closely with the new business and account management teams by helping them respond to briefs, pitch, translate technical jargon into client-friendly language, analyse client requirements and develop cost-effective solutions.
Key responsibilities:
- Provide assistance to the business development and account management teams with the technical aspects of projects, proposals and contracts - including recommendations for changes to current systems based on technical developments, and assistance with the preparation and presentation of pitches.
- Deliver high quality IT services both internally and externally.
- Oversee the overall technical development process and ensure the appropriate interfaces between the various teams involved exist.
- Direct line-manage the Technical Development Manager and Infrastructure Manager and provide high-level leadership for their teams
- Evaluate current IT infrastructure, identify technologies and initiate projects designed to improve security, scalability and reliability of the web related products.
- Develop both the people and processes within the technical team to react to the challenges and to the changing nature of the business
Requirements:
- Significant experience (5-10 years) in a technical leadership role, particularly in a web/digital agency environment
- Experience working with open source LAMP platforms, particularly PHP and mySQL, and the use and/or creation of third party libraries and frameworks
- Strong people management and communication skills - verbal and written – specifically an ability to write clear concise proposals, reports and presentations.
- Good team player who can work with people of all levels / backgrounds
- Self-motivated and analytical thinker; sees solutions rather than obstacles
- Experience with hosting platforms and network operations
- Experience with account management, third party contractual agreements, client management & pre-sales, client reporting and up-selling
-  Experience of defining and managing the scope of projects.
- Experience of chairing meetings, regular reporting, technical sales support and helping to produce budgets
- Ability to lead, organize and execute with little or no direction, deliver commitments on time and within budget, and to work in a team within a fast pace environment
- Degree educated
- Strong experience driving technical strategy/road mapping
If you are excited by an opportuniy to drive the technical strategy of a leading digital agency. please apply below.
