Job Description & How to Apply Below
About the Role
Appnovation is seeking a Technical Director to lead solutions architecture, delivery excellence, and AI-driven transformation across our Americas portfolio.
This is a senior leadership role with real ownership. You will be a technology leader for the majority of our Americas delivery portfolio, responsible for client outcomes, team performance, and the operational standards that keep a global consultancy running well.
Who you are
You have a solutions architecture background - you can design systems, lead pre-sales, scope engagements, and ensure technical quality from sprint zero through to delivery.
You see delivery discipline as a competitive advantage, not overhead. You have strong views on agile maturity, sprint cadence, quality gates, and Jira/Confluence hygiene - and you've built or reformed these systems before.
You're genuinely excited about AI and have moved beyond experimentation. You've ope rationalised AI tooling (Git Hub Copilot, Claude Code, AI-augmented QA, or similar) across real engineering teams at scale - not just run pilots.
You communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders, building consensus and driving decisions.
You have experience presenting solutions to client architecture review teams and are comfortable estimating engagements at multiple levels with clear rationale.
You're comfortable navigating ambiguity - fragmented requirements, evolving scopes, distributed teams across time zones - and you bring structure without rigidity.
You take ownership of outcomes, not just deliverables. If a project is going off track, you see it early and act.
You balance idealism with pragmatism, knowing when to advocate for the ideal solution and when to make strategic compromises.
You lead people as well as technology - you're comfortable managing, mentoring, and growing an engineering team, and you care about the people as much as the platform.
The Essentials
A strong mix of the following skills will make you an excellent candidate:
10-15 years of experience in enterprise digital delivery, with a track record leading complex, multi-team technology programmes
Solutions architecture experience - you've designed systems, led technical pre-sales, written proposals, and presented to client leadership
Demonstrable experience ope rationalising AI tooling across engineering teams (not just personal use or R&D)
Strong delivery management background - you've run or reformed a delivery function, PMO, or equivalent; you understand what good agile maturity looks like and how to get there
Experience with modern web and cloud technologies including MACH architectures, headless CMS platforms, cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and CI/CD pipelines
People leadership - you've managed engineering teams of meaningful size, handled performance, hiring, and career development
Commercial awareness - you understand utilisation, margin, and how to grow accounts; you can have a commercial conversation with a client without needing someone from sales in the room
Strong documentation skills: architecture diagrams, ADRs, technical specifications, and estimation rationale
Pre-sales capability - scoping, estimation governance, RFP/proposal technical input, proof of concepts
Nice To Have
Experience in the following areas is a plus:
Cross-pod or cross-capability coordination experience - you've been the connective tissue between multiple technical teams or disciplines
Experience setting and enforcing delivery standards across distributed teams (onshore/offshore models)
Health-tech, financial services, or other compliance-heavy industry experience (HIPAA, GDPR, SOC
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CMS platform experience (Contentful, Sanity.io, Builder.io, Strapi, or similar)
Dev Ops and infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Pulumi, Kubernetes)
Experience with AI-powered client solutions - not…
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