# Director of Technology **Company**: Moonpig Group **Location**: London **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: executive **Salary**: Competitive Salary **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/moonpig/dadf25a3-62d1-43d1-9ca3-0e0f42760722?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_237b9c01-860 ## Description We're the Moonpig Group – home to Moonpig, Greetz, Red Letter Days and Buyagift – and we're on a mission to make people feel loved, celebrated and remembered. Technology leadership. Business transformation. Marketplace scale. Experiences is a key part of Moonpig Group, connecting customers with thousands of memorable experiences through Buyagift, Red Letter Days and a network of trusted merchant and retail partners. We're looking for a Director of Technology to lead the next phase of our technology evolution. This isn't simply about running an existing technology organisation,it's about defining what our technology landscape needs to become. **Key Responsibilities:** - Define and lead the long-term technology strategy for the Experiences business, aligning technology investment with commercial ambitions. - Review the existing technology estate, identifying where to modernise, simplify, replace or retain platforms to maximise business value. - Lead a comprehensive assessment of the partner-side platform, developing recommendations across architecture, data, migration, sequencing, investment, organisational capability, risk and expected business outcomes. - Lead platform transformation initiatives where replatforming is the right solution. - Shape technology capabilities that support partner content, product and catalogue data, merchant onboarding, operational workflows, consumer shopping, voucher fulfilment, redemption and exchange journeys. - Lead the Experiences Data Platform, ensuring reliable, accessible and well-structured data that supports commercial insight, product development and operational decision-making. - Define how data architecture should evolve alongside application architecture to support future business needs. - Partner closely with the General Manager and Experiences Leadership Team, bringing technology and data into strategic business decisions. - Translate complex technical, architectural and delivery challenges into clear recommendations for senior business stakeholders. - Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data, Security and Platform leaders across Moonpig Group to maximise shared capabilities while supporting the unique needs of the Experiences business. - Lead two cross-functional squads and the Experiences Data Platform team, creating an environment where people have clear goals, strong technical standards and the autonomy to make great decisions. - Develop engineering and data leadership capability, ensuring the organisation has the skills required to deliver its future technology strategy. **About You:** - Significant experience leading technology organisations at a senior level. - Deep technical credibility across modern software architecture, platforms and engineering. - Strong understanding of data architecture and modern data platforms. - Proven experience leading platform modernisation, replatforming or large-scale technology transformation within commercial environments. - Confidence evaluating architecture and engineering decisions while balancing technical debt, investment and long-term business priorities. - Experience leading or partnering closely with Data Engineering teams. - Strong understanding of how application and data architecture work together to support business growth. - Commercially minded, with the ability to connect technology decisions to customer and business outcomes. - Comfortable partnering with senior executives and influencing strategic decision making. - Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technology challenges for a wide range of stakeholders. - Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and developing future technology leaders. - Strong product and customer instincts, with an appreciation of how technology, operating models and customer propositions interact. - Comfortable operating in lean environments where prioritisation, pragmatism and sound judgement are essential. - Experience within marketplaces, ecommerce, partner ecosystems, voucher businesses or complex retail integrations would be beneficial, although we're most interested in the scale and complexity of the challenges you've solved. **Additional Information:** We believe in empowering our team to do their best work. Enjoy: - Competitive Pay & Bonuses: Plus, generous pension plans & staff discounts. - Wellbeing First: Private healthcare (UK) and mental health support - Flexible Working & Time Off: Generous holidays, hybrid working (1-3 days in office, depending on role/team) & up to 20 days of international working. - Career Growth: Learning allowances, coaching & development programs. ## Skills ### Required - modern software architecture - data architecture - platforms - engineering - data engineering - leadership ### Nice to have - marketplaces - ecommerce - partner ecosystems - voucher businesses - complex retail integrations --- Source: [Apply at jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/moonpig/dadf25a3-62d1-43d1-9ca3-0e0f42760722?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)