First Achieve

About the Company

SECTOR SPECIFIC RECRUITMENT

First Achieve understands the considerable resource that goes into the recruitment process. Our Managed Talent Solution is ideal for clients and candidates who are looking for a single engagement, multi-source service.

Our focus is to provide a range of proactive real value and transparent effective recruitment services that listens to what clients and candidates want. Our powerful candidate procurement and selection process is aimed at attracting high calibre candidates to ensure success.

We have a vast amount of hands on experience and knowledge covering key areas across the IT, Technology and Engineering sectors which puts us in the best position to understand what our clients are seeking. We provide a highly professional service and put a high value on both our own and our client’s integrity and brand.

We believe in operating with openness and honesty in placing quality people who contribute to your business's success long term.

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Company Name

First Achieve

Job Title

Chief Technology Officer

Job Description

**Job Title** Chief Technology Officer **Role Summary** Lead the transformation of an organization’s engineering practice from legacy models to a modern, AI‑driven, agentic development environment. Design and implement new architecture, tooling, automation, and delivery pipelines that shift product creation to a future‑ready culture with full executive backing and autonomy. **Expectations** - Own the end‑to‑end redesign of technology strategy and execution. - Translate vision into actionable roadmaps, allocate resources, and communicate progress to the board. - Establish and champion a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and data‑driven improvement. **Key Responsibilities** 1. Architect and deliver a cloud‑native, microservices‑based stack that incorporates AI, LLM, and intelligent automation. 2. Create and execute a roadmap for AI‑assisted engineering workflows, tooling, and pipelines. 3. Lead cross‑functional teams in adopting new practices, providing guidance, training, and governance. 4. Define and monitor performance metrics (speed, quality, scalability) and iterate accordingly. 5. Cultivate an engineering culture focused on rapid experimentation, fail‑fast, and metric‑driven decisions. 6. Partner with product, data, security, and operations leadership to align technology strategy with business goals. 7. Present technology vision, progress, and ROI to executive leadership and the board. **Required Skills** - Senior technology leadership (CTO or equivalent) with proven success in scaling or transforming engineering at scale‑up/enterprise level. - Deep expertise in modern software architecture, cloud-native technologies, containerization, CI/CD, observability, and distributed systems. - Demonstrated experience integrating AI/ML/LLM into development pipelines and production systems. - Strong program and project management, stakeholder communication, and people‑management skills. - Proven ability to shift organizational culture, drive rapid experimentation, and maintain a data‑centric mindset. - Strategic thinking, change‑leadership, and ability to articulate complex concepts to diverse audiences. **Required Education & Certifications** - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred). - Optional certifications: Cloud Architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP), AI/ML foundational certificates (TensorFlow, PyTorch), or related professional credentials.

Manchester, United kingdom

Hybrid

Senior

04-12-2025