Director of Technology | FinTech SaaS
Remote (1 day onsite per quarter)
Salary Range | £80,000 - £100,000
Harrington Starr has partnered with an award-winning fintech company seeking a Director of Technology to lead and scale its technology function.
This is a rare opportunity to join a high-growth SaaS business at a pivotal stage of its journey. Reporting directly to the Managing Director and sitting on the Senior Leadership Team, you will play a key role in shaping technology strategy, driving platform scalability, and building high-performing engineering teams while helping define the future direction of the business.
What you'll be doing:
- Leading software engineering, data engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps functions
- Defining and executing the technology strategy in line with business objectives
- Driving the delivery of a secure, scalable, and resilient SaaS platform
- Partnering with product and business leaders to prioritise technical delivery and platform evolution
- Overseeing engineering standards, release management, platform reliability, and operational excellence
- Supporting architecture decisions to ensure long-term scalability and performance
- Building, mentoring, and developing high-performing technology teams
- Managing technical risk, security, governance, and operational resilience
- Contributing to company strategy, budgeting, resource planning, and organisational growth
- dentifying opportunities to leverage emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation
What we're looking for:
- Proven experience leading technology teams within SaaS, fintech, payments, or other high-growth technology environments
- A strong track record of delivering scalable platforms and reliable production systems
- Experience managing multidisciplinary teams across engineering, infrastructure, data, and DevOps
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture, engineering governance, deployment pipelines, and modern software delivery practices
- Excellent leadership, coaching, and stakeholder management skills
- The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on technical leadership
- Strong commercial awareness and experience aligning technology outcomes with business goals
- A practical, delivery-focused mindset with a passion for building high-performing teams
Technical environment:
- Microsoft technology stack including C# and .NET
- Azure cloud services and modern cloud-native architecture
- Containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
- Modern front-end technologies including React and Angular
- Data and analytics platforms including Snowflake and Looker
- DevOps and collaboration tooling across the software development lifecycle
What you will gain:
- A genuine opportunity to shape the technology vision of a growing fintech business
- Executive-level influence and direct exposure to business strategy and decision-making
- The chance to lead and develop talented multidisciplinary teams
- A flexible, remote-friendly working environment
- The opportunity to work on innovative products solving complex challenges within the payments and financial technology sector
If you're a technology leader who enjoys building teams, scaling platforms, and driving innovation within a fast-growing business, I'd be keen to speak with you.
