Technical leadership
Fractional CTO for a portfolio of digital platforms
Taking on the full technical function — architecture, delivery, vendors and hiring strategy — for a portfolio of digital platforms, reporting to executive leadership.
- Client
- Communication and tourism organisation
- Year
- 2023 — present
- 3+ years
- of continuing engagement
- Portfolio
- several platforms under one architecture
- C-level
- direct reporting to executive leadership
The engagement
An organisation running several digital platforms in production with no internal technical function. Technology decisions were made project by project, usually on the information supplied by the vendor who wanted to sell them.
What the role involves
- Ownership of the architecture across the portfolio, with shared patterns rather than an isolated system per project.
- Defining the technical roadmap in step with business priorities, with explicit build, buy or drop decisions.
- Vendor control: proposal review, acceptance criteria and delivery audits.
- Hiring strategy and engineering practice for the development team.
- Direct reporting to executive leadership, in the vocabulary that table needs.
Next step
Half an hour well spent
Walk us through the problem on a short call. You leave with a first read on how we'd approach it and what it would involve — no commitment, no sales deck.