Director Of Technology

Position: Director of Technology (4-5 days per week)

Company: X-Lab Ltd

Starting Date: ASAP

Location: Remote/Leeds/London, UK

Salary: £110-125k FTE dependent on experience 

Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer

About the Role

As the Director of Technology you will play a pivotal role in shaping the strategic direction of our business; setting and driving the overarching engineering strategy (supported by our Head of Engineering) ensuring it aligns with and influences the company's overall strategic goals, and overseeing our cybersecurity and IT functions to deliver secure, robust technology infrastructure. 

Your leadership and vision will be crucial in fostering innovation, enhancing operational efficiency, and positioning our organisation at the forefront of industry advancements.

Responsibilities

Vision and Strategy

• Evolve and deliver the long-term strategy for technology across the business.
• Lead on architecture and design.
• Actively contribute to the development and execution of the business strategic direction.

Systems

• Ensuring that the technological resources meet the company's short and long-term needs.
• Ensure that all staff have appropriate IT systems and support to facilitate effective working.
• Ensure that CyberSecurity risks are appropriately managed through technology and process (working with GRC representatives)

People, culture and ways of working

• Build and maintain a high talent density team that is effectively resourced for the needs of the business through the recruitment (where needed), coaching, mentoring and retention of high performing individuals.
• Advocate for and advance modern development practices, including lean/agile ways of working.
• Provide day-to-day supervision and pastoral support to the Head of Engineering, fostering the growth and development of the engineering team members.
• Represent the engineering function as a member of the senior leadership of the company; collaborating with other leaders to identify and deliver against business priorities.
• Act as a senior leader of the business, both internally and externally.

Product

• Work with the Product team to influence the technical product roadmap and how initiatives can be delivered efficiently.

Commercial

• Ensure that the engineering team operates with maximum efficiency to deliver initiatives in the most time and cost effective way.
• Identify cost effective ways to improve efficiency across ways of working, processes, technologies and tools.

Industry, Environmental and Regulatory

• Keep abreast of industry trends and regulatory changes to ensure that the technology continues to adhere to best practice and regulatory requirements.

Delivery & Execution

• Contribute hands-on in solving delivery challenges

About You

Highly Desirable:

• 10+ years experience in Software Engineering, 5+ years in technical leadership
• T-shaped, cross-functional skill set and ability to work across entire stack
• Experience of working in a product-centric, B2B SaaS environment.
• Exceptional experience in architectural design, particularly in cloud and micro-service paradigms.
• Proficient in secure, scalable, distributed, highly available architectures and event driven patterns.
• Confident in setting out overall technical vision on a company-wide scale, which has the ability to grow and flex in line with product and user feedback.
• Strong experience in and understanding of agile and DevOps paradigms, and the ability to lead and coach others in these.
• Experience in management of Engineering, Cyber and IT functions.

Desirable:

• Recent experience of working with healthcare or critical systems.

• Experience of operating at Director of Engineering/Technology or CTO or equivalent level in a comparable business.

• Awareness of cyber threats facing the HealthTech domain.

• MBA or other business qualification.

About X-Lab

X-Lab has been around since 2006 but it is the last few years in which we have seen our most dramatic changes and growth.

Our core product, Labgnostic, is a service which connects almost 200 diagnostic organisations (primarily pathology labs) together across the UK, US and Australia for lab-to-lab referral testing. Labgnostic is the market leader in the UK and was the data infrastructure for the UK’s national COVID-19 testing response which saw the service process more than 300 million COVID-19 results for UK citizens.

Over the past few years we’ve further expanded our portfolio to include LabReach, a system through which clinicians can order tests, and LabgnosticEQA, which supports lab quality assurance.

Ultimately, our vision is to be the leader in connecting the world's diagnostic systems to improve healthcare for all.

X-Lab’s head office is in Leeds, with shared office space in London, but our team is distributed across the UK. We’re a remote-first organisation and believe in the flexibility to work in a way that supports your lifestyle, with many of our team choosing to work from one of our offices a few times a week and at home on other days. While our team live in lots of different locations, we get together regularly as a company, and within our teams, to socialise and encourage the warm and friendly culture which sits at the heart of X-Lab.

How to apply

Please apply directly via Bamboo with a short covering letter outlining your suitability.