Digital Technical Director

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Contact Info

Contact Person: Tony Massenhove / Tony Martin Email: tony@massenhove.co.uk Telephone: 01621 786 220
Job Title: Digital Technical Director

Job Description

About the role:

As the Technical Director you will be a senior member of the Digital Team and report into the Head of Digital and COO of Production Services.

The purpose of the role is to assume complete and strategic direction for the technical component of all deliverables to our clients, ensuring that projects are optimally specified and trafficked through the agency adhering to the chosen process methodology. You will provide support and guidance to our development team ensuring all projects are developed using the appropriate techniques and technologies.

It is important for the Technical Director to have excellent personal communication and presentation skills and be comfortable working with clients, producers and “techies” alike.

Responsibilities:

Leadership of technical strategy across multiple clients

Ensure that technical projects are delivered successfully, and on time & budget

Create and manage technical/solution design documentation and technical writing

To define, communicate and enforce coding standards across development team

Partner with Commercial, Producer and Creative teams to develop initial concept for client projects and define project scope, budgets and timelines as well as to ensure quality and timely development and delivery

Lead offshore development teams to oversee technical architectures, project development, organization, processes and implementation of strategies

Creation and review current and propose technical business processes

Design system test requirements/test cases to ensure quality of delivery – in conjunction with our QA Manager

Attend client briefings with the commercial team. Gather requirements and agree on the client and project objectives

Prepare response to RFP’s and estimates

Conduct risk assessments. Monitor risks throughout the project life cycle and escalate issues early

Ensure all proposals presented to the client have been qualified from a technical perspective

Attend and present at pitches. Provide expert advice on technical solutions and delivery of projects

Prepare technical project schedules and work with the Operations Manager to resource projects

Meet with Development team regularly, know the status of all projects from a top level and be ultimately responsible for the successful technical delivery of projects

Complete internal systems and reports. Provide weekly/monthly reports to the management on time. Ensure any issues/variations are reported at the earliest opportunity

Keep up to date with technologies and use your knowledge to improve processes and quality, and identify new business opportunities and implementation of these

Key skills:

Excellent Technical management skills

Strong client skills

Excellent scoping and estimating skills

Strong literacy and presentation skills

Strong negotiation and influencing skills

Strong leadership skills

Primary KPIs:

Ensure technical solutions are implemented with understanding of both client and business needs

Ensure developers deliver work on time, to budget and to specification

To define and enforce coding standards across the development team

Demonstrate a thorough understanding of clients and group business strategy by accurately gathering requirements and setting objectives for the team

All technical documentation and processes are completed and adhered to

RFPs, estimates and schedules are accurate and delivered on time

All risks and possible solutions are captured in risk assessments and issues are escalated in a timely fashion

Receive positive feedback from the client, development and producer teams on your performance and contribution

Complete all internal systems e.g. timesheets on time and accurately

Experience:

Experience in Open Source and Mobile technologies such as LAMP, Java, HTML, CSS, Flash

Good experience of enterprise-level and/or open source CMS platforms

Experience in understanding the customer requirements, prepare estimates and solution overview/architecture

Solid grasp of test plans, creating test cases, and scripts needed to evaluate database loads, quality assurance and review code

Experience in assessing infrastructure gaps and enablement roadmaps/plans development

Experience in both agile and waterfall project management methodologies

Ability to formulate business requirements

Experience working as a Technical Director in a fast paced Agency environment

Experience in defining system requirements and system interactions

Experience working with offshore production teams is advantageous

Experience scoping and estimating projects up to £1m

Experience dealing with senior level clients

Experience pitching and presenting

Personal attributes:

Passionate about technology

Excellent attention to detail

A natural leader and organiser of people

Rational and a lateral thinker

Remains calm under pressure

Personable and approachable

Details

Job Ref: MASS 999 Hours: Full Time Location: London Working Term: Permanent Position Salary: £60,000 - 90,000

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