16 retail technology director jobs found in London

We are looking for an experienced Retail Technology Director to strengthen our retail technology capability and help grow our work across existing and prospective client accounts. This is a senior, client-facing role for someone who combines credible technology leadership with strong commercial instincts. You will work with senior retail stakeholders to understand their challenges, shape technology strategies and identify opportunities that can be developed into valuable programmes of work. You will provide strategic technology leadership across areas including digital commerce, data, AI, automation, platforms and retail transformation. You will also work closely with our client engagement, commercial and delivery teams to develop propositions, shape solutions and support opportunities from initial conversation through to delivery. This is not a traditional internal CTO role. It is best suited to an experienced technology leader or consultant who enjoys working directly with...

We are looking for an experienced Retail Technology Director to strengthen our retail technology capability and help grow our work across existing and prospective client accounts. This is a senior, client-facing role for someone who combines credible technology leadership with strong commercial instincts. You will work with senior retail stakeholders to understand their challenges, shape technology strategies and identify opportunities that can be developed into valuable programmes of work. You will provide strategic technology leadership across areas including digital commerce, data, AI, automation, platforms and retail transformation. You will also work closely with our client engagement, commercial and delivery teams to develop propositions, shape solutions and support opportunities from initial conversation through to delivery. This is not a traditional internal CTO role. It is best suited to an experienced technology leader or consultant who enjoys working directly...

We are looking for an experienced Retail Technology Director to strengthen our retail technology capability and help grow our work across existing and prospective client accounts. This is a senior, client-facing role for someone who combines credible technology leadership with strong commercial instincts. You will work with senior retail stakeholders to understand their challenges, shape technology strategies and identify opportunities that can be developed into valuable programmes of work. You will provide strategic technology leadership across areas including digital commerce, data, AI, automation, platforms and retail transformation. You will also work closely with our client engagement, commercial and delivery teams to develop propositions, shape solutions and support opportunities from initial conversation through to delivery. This is not a traditional internal CTO role. It is best suited to an experienced technology leader or consultant who enjoys...

Solutions Architect The engagement We're building out a team to work with a client on a major data and cloud migration for their marketplace platform. You'll be the Solutions Architect on it: owning the target-state data architecture on AWS, and the plan to get there without disrupting a live platform running at serious volume. That means owning the migration end to end: how the data moves, in what order, how it's cleaned and reconciled along the way, and how you cut over with as little downtime as possible. The platform This is a genuinely large-scale marketplace. Very few platforms handle a product catalogue or transaction volume at this level. The roadmap includes agentic AI workflows built into the platform, retail media integrated directly into the marketplace, and infrastructure work targeting cost and performance at high volume. A lot of this is being attempted at volumes that have rarely been tested in a marketplace before, so the work leans research-led...

Senior C# Engineer – .NET 9/10, AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS – OUTSIDE IR35 £700–£800 per day • Outside IR35 ? 100% Remote • 9 month rolling contract Takeaway: Contribute to the architecture and build of a major greenfield B2B SaaS platform as a deeply senior, hands-on C# engineer, with heavy emphasis on deep .NET engineering , high-performance distributed systems , and real-world AWS serverless delivery . You’ll also have the opportunity to develop hands-on skills with Claude Code , one of the most advanced AI-assisted development tools in the industry. Role Overview: You’ll operate as the technical spearhead for a greenfield product build, reporting to the Director of Engineering. Expect deep backend engineering, distributed system design, and high-quality serverless delivery, plus the chance to adopt modern AI-assisted development practices as part of your workflow. What You’ll Bring: Senior/Staff-level backend mastery in C# and .NET 9/10 , with...

Interim HRIS Specialist - Sage People Interim / Fixed-Term Contract 3 - 6 months potentially extension £400 / £480 per day, Outside IR35 FTC Equivalent: Circa £65,000 per annum Environment: SME / scaling business System: Sage People The Opportunity We are looking for an experienced HRIS Specialist with strong Sage People expertise to join a dynamic, fast-paced SME at an important stage in the development of its People systems and processes. The business has recently implemented Sage People, working alongside third-party implementation partner Phase 3, with the programme sponsored at SLT level and overseen by the People Director. With the People Director shortly commencing maternity leave, we are looking for a hands-on HRIS specialist who can take ownership of the system, get into the granular detail of its configuration and help the People team maximise its capabilities. This is not simply a systems administration role. We need someone who understands People...

Data Engineering Lead DURATION: Until 31 December 2026, with potential to extend for a further 6 months LOCATION: London ONSITE REQUIREMENTS: Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite in London ENGAGEMENT TYPE: Outside IR35 DAY RATE: £700 per day (DoE) LEGAL RIGHT TO WORK: Candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK. Sponsorship is not available for this role. GIBBS CONSULTING SUMMARY We are growing, and as part of that journey Gibbs Consulting is expanding our Data Product Feature Team to support a major client project within the banking industry. We are looking for an experienced Data Engineering Lead to lead a team of six Senior Data Engineers delivering for our end-customer. JOB OVERVIEW We are looking for a hands-on Data Engineering Lead who can combine strong technical data engineering expertise with leadership and delivery ownership. You will lead a team of six Senior Data Engineers, providing technical direction, setting engineering standards and ensuring the team...

Principal Software Engineer – Testing Architecture & Engineering Quality 📍 London (1 day/week) | 💰 £750/day Outside IR35 (Flexible) | 📅 12-Month Initial Contract Shape the Future of Engineering Quality at a Leading Investment Bank   A leading investment bank is looking for an exceptional Principal Software Engineer to define and build the future testing architecture across its strategic Global Markets Front Office trading platform.   This is a highly technical Principal Software Engineering position - not a QA, Test Analyst or traditional SDET role.   The successful candidate will join a team with an exceptionally high technical bar. We're looking for someone who thinks like an architect, writes production-quality code, and enjoys solving complex engineering problems through frameworks, tooling and platform design rather than feature development alone.   You'll define the engineering foundations that...

Data/BI Engineer | 3 Month Contract | (Outside IR35) | Hybrid, Enfield, London| Starting ASAP Day Rate: £400 About the Role: Our client is a growing UK retail business investing in a significant technology modernisation programme, including a new digital platform, API-led integrations, and the rollout of Microsoft Fabric. With executive sponsorship and a defined target architecture already in place, the business is now looking to build its data capability. Reporting is currently heavily reliant on manual processes, with data sourced from multiple systems and prepared before insights can be delivered. The organisation has invested in Microsoft Fabric to create a more scalable, automated, and self-service data environment. This role will lead the delivery of a greenfield Microsoft Fabric platform, building the agreed architecture from the ground up and enabling improved reporting, analytics, and business insight across the organisation. Main Duties Design and build a...

D365 Finance & Operations Solution Architect | Outside IR35 | £800/day | UK-Based | Regular Travel to London & Paris | French speaking We 're supporting a major international finance transformation programme and are seeking an experienced D365 Finance & Operations Solution Architect to help shape the future-state ERP landscape for a complex, multi-country organisation. This role sits within the strategy and design phase of the programme, providing a unique opportunity to influence architectural decisions, business process transformation, and implementation planning before delivery begins. Key Responsibilities Define the future-state D365 F &O solution architecture Lead finance and operational process discovery workshops Shape the ERP roadmap and target operating model Drive Global Chart of Accounts and financial dimensions design Assess and define the integration landscape and strategy Provide architectural guidance...

Contract - £650 / Day - Outside IR35 - 12 months TL;DR Role: Data Governance & Master Data Lead — standing up an enterprise data governance function from scratch Where you'll work: Embedded on-site with a global renewable energy developer and operator Location: London — on-site, five days a week Type: Permanent, full-time Domain: Utilities, energy or another asset-heavy industry — essential, not a nice-to-have Platforms: SAP MDG, Informatica MDM, Collibra or Microsoft Purview; SAP S/4HANA environment Line Management: Lead a Master Data team of internal staff, outsourced specialists and consultants Visa Sponsorship: Not available — you must already have the right to work in the UK Flexibility: This one is genuinely full-time and on-site. If that does not work for you, we have other roles that will Diversity & Inclusion: We want a broad mix of people and perspectives Who We Are Hypercube is a data-and-AI specialist focused on...

IT Programme Manager London 3 Months Up to £750 per day (Outside IR35) A well-established and highly profitable engineering business is seeking an experienced IT Programme Manager to support a portfolio of strategic technology initiatives on an initial 3-month contract. This is a high-profile opportunity to lead multiple business-critical programmes within an organisation undergoing significant digital transformation and an ambitious acquisition strategy. You'll play a key role in delivering complex technology change across IT, infrastructure, cloud, cyber security and enterprise applications, ensuring programmes remain on track and aligned with wider business objectives. Working closely with the Head of IT PMO, Executive Leadership, IT teams and third-party delivery partners, you'll provide hands-on programme leadership across multiple concurrent workstreams. Responsibilities Lead multiple complex IT and business transformation programmes across Digital...

Real Time Data Engineer £600-£650pd outside IR35 Initially for 6 months Location: Hybrid/London A leading organisation is seeking a Real Time Data Engineer to join a major data transformation programme focused on building next-generation streaming and event-driven data platforms. This role focuses on designing and delivering cloud-native, Real Time data pipelines, moving operational data from source systems into enterprise data platforms. This is not a traditional Snowflake, dbt, or batch ETL role. We're looking for an engineer with strong experience in streaming technologies, event-driven architecture, and distributed data systems. The Role Design and build Real Time data pipelines using Apache Flink , Apache Kafka , and AWS Kinesis Develop scalable event-driven and streaming solutions Integrate data from source systems including Oracle, MySQL, and Sybase Build data processing, transformation, enrichment, and quality capabilities Deliver low-latency...

Contract : Head of Cyber Security : Up to £600 per day Outside IR35 : Hybrid (London) : 6 months initial A fast-moving, AI-first digital consumer business operating at scale across multiple global offices is seeking a Head of Cyber Security to own its security posture end-to-end, reporting to the Director of IT & Cyber Security. This is the Group's most senior dedicated cyber security role, combining deep technical ownership, compliance and audit leadership, and executive-level influence. The business serves millions of end users through a converged ecosystem of high-traffic platforms and moves quickly, making this a genuine strategic priority rather than a support function. Key requirements: Hands-on expertise across cloud and application security, security operations, vulnerability management and incident response Track record owning an ISMS and leading ISO/IEC 27001 certification and recertification Experience owning PCI DSS compliance and leading external...

Data Engineer: Contract | Up to £400/day outside IR35 | Hybrid, London | 6 months initial A major consumer goods business is seeking a contract Data Engineer. The programme is consolidating a fragmented estate and standardising how things are done across the group. It's early days, the team is lean and the structure is still being shaped. As a Data Engineer, you'd be building and maintaining the pipelines that take data from disparate Legacy systems across the group and get it into a shared, reliable platform, working closely with senior engineers on the wider platform direction. There's a genuine green field element here, with real support from more senior members of the team as patterns and standards continue to be established. As a contract Data Engineer you'll be competent in: Building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines across cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) Working with modern data stack tooling such as dbt, Airflow, Databricks or Snowflake Supporting the...

Microsoft Fabric Consultant (Frontend & Backend) £450 per day | Outside IR35 Initial 3-Month Contract | Rolling Extensions Mostly Remote | UK Travel Required SC Clearance Required (Active or Held Within Last 12 Months) We 're partnering with a leading Microsoft Partner seeking an experienced Microsoft Fabric Consultant to support a range of enterprise client engagements. This role requires a consultant who can operate across the full Microsoft Fabric stack, combining strong backend data engineering expertise with frontend Power BI development and stakeholder engagement skills. Responsibilities Design, build and optimise end-to-end solutions within Microsoft Fabric. Develop and maintain Fabric Lakehouses, Warehouses, Data Pipelines and Dataflows. Build scalable data ingestion and transformation processes using Fabric and related Azure technologies. Design and develop Power BI dashboards, reports and semantic models....