AND Digital Careers

Description

You will be part of the AND Digital Guide team, playing the lead role in the early engagement with our clients. Working with the team, your role will provide ultimate technology leadership in Digital platforms such as eCommerce, Content Management, Analytics, Digital Asset Management and Middleware. Also, assisting new and existing AND Digital clients in the early business case, selection, platform architecture and initiation stages of any implementation.

Internally you will provide the team with inspiring platform technology leadership, supporting the Clubs to deliver amazing work. Further, the Head of Technology - Platforms will work closely with the Clubs and Client Acquisition at all stages of the lifecycle (pre-pitch to ongoing client management).

While not technically hands on you will need to ensure all platform solutions are developed with exceptional high standards for engineering, architecture, performance and reliability. 

Your background

• Technology leader with Digital Platform delivery background with direct experience of working with client ‘heads of’ technology and wider CXO environment
• Experience working in a consulting environment is critical  - with emphasis on leading and delivering Digital platforms in a glocal scale - CMS, eCommerce in particular a must.
• Authentic and credible with technology teams - introducing both best practice for platform delivery (from a programme and technology perspective)
• Deep digital platform expertise (from an technology and application architecture perspective):
• eCommerce (such as Hybris, Websphere, Oracle, Magento, Shopify, Commerce Cloud etc)
• CMS And DAM (such as AEM, Sitecore, Episerver)
• Best practice platform engineering standards and process
• Security applications within platform delivery context
• Broad understanding of marketing, digital and eCommerce processes and capabilities (covering people, process and technology)
• Ability to build relationships with platform vendor and suppliers - building alliances and an ability to develop an external joint brand
• Tech design decision, technology choice and influence - focus on tools and techniques with clear vision

Key Accountabilities

• Delivery platform related engagements (selection, architecture, business case etc as part of a defined engagement with our clients
• Working with the AND Digital coaching team to drive and define platform engineering standards, coding practice, security requirements and tech strategy for the coaching team to execute
• Contribute to the growth and development of AND Digital clients, providing tech expertise at bid and pre-sales stages, demonstrating deep tech and platform delivery capability
• Be a beacon and a respected tech leader in AND Digital (across Clubs), garnering the respect and building a strong community across our technology people
• Building a positive tech reputation for AND Digital externally and contributing as a respected industry thought leader
• Influence tech direction and skills for AND Digital to invest in, through both market research or introduction of a R&D  / innovation capability
• Build an external network and ecosystem of like minded and complementary technology organisations where there is a benefit to all parties (AND, the partner and our clients)