About you
You are an energetic and focused technical leader who thrives in a fastmoving digital environment. Motivated by delivering exceptional products, driving highperforming teams, and elevating technical quality, you excel at turning complex requirements into scalable, secure and highvalue solutions.
Bringing your strong experience across engineering, data, AI and IT operations, to make confident architectural decisions and lead multidisciplinary teams. You have a passion for continuous improvement, operational excellence and delivering predictable, highquality product iterations that create meaningful value for both customers and colleagues.
Your client and product-first mindset and commitment to technical excellence will thrive in a collaborative, commercially focused environment where innovation, delivery and purpose go hand-in-hand.
About us
At SelectScience® we are accelerating science by connecting scientific communities with trusted solutions. We produce and publish high-quality digital content and deliver content marketing solutions, whilst also informing scientists about the best products and technologies in their field through the power of peer-to-peer recommendation and reviews.
We are an essential partner to deliver value to marketers and businesses in the USA, Europe, UK and Asia Pacific. Our Headquarters is near Bath and Bristol, and we are an established brand with over 26 years of experience in digital publishing.
The role
As Head of Technical Delivery, you will lead the engineering, data and IT functions to ensure SelectScience’s digital products, systems and platforms are delivered, supported and continuously improved. You will own the product delivery roadmap, drive technical execution, and ensure reliability, performance and security across all systems.
You will work closely with Product, Commercial, Editorial and external technology partners to deliver highquality platform enhancements, new features and scalable technical solutions that support our growth.
This is a fulltime hybrid role, reporting directly to the CEO.
Snapshot of the role:
* Lead and develop highperforming engineering, data and IT operations teams.
* Drive predictable delivery of product iterations, new features and system improvements.
* Make key architectural decisions to ensure platforms remain scalable, secure and customercentric.
* Oversee sprint planning, execution, QA and release processes.
* Own the stability, reliability and performance of digital platforms, systems and integrations.
* Ensure robust cybersecurity, compliance, governance and monitoring processes.
* Translate product roadmaps into clear, deliverable technical plans.
* Collaborate closely with senior leadership, aligning technical execution with business goals.
* Manage internal and external engineering, data and IT vendors and partners.
* Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement.
* Oversee data infrastructure, analytics tooling, event tracking and delivery of AIdriven capabilities.
Technical environment
You’ll work with a cuttingedge serverless environment including:
* Headless CMS (Sanity.io)
* Frontend: Next.js and React
* Integrations with Monday, Salesforce, HubSpot, Vimeo
* Azure Functions
* Hosting on Vercel
* Bespoke SQL Server data warehouse
Skills and Experience:
* Strong leadership experience across engineering, data, AI and IT operations.
* Proven track record delivering complex, clientfacing digital products or platforms.
* Deep understanding of modern software engineering, DevOps, CI/CD and agile methodologies.
* Strong architectural decisionmaking skills across web technologies, cloud infrastructure, data and AI.
* Experience managing multidisciplinary internal teams and external vendors.
* Excellent communication skills, able to translate technical detail into business impact.
* Strong problemsolving, prioritisation and decisionmaking abilities.
* Degree (or equivalent experience) in computer science, engineering, information systems or related field.
Desirable:
* Experience in SaaS, marketplaces or contentdriven digital environments.
* Knowledge of security standards, compliance frameworks and DevOps best practice.
* Background in scientific, technical, publishing or other B2B digital industries.
* Experience scaling teams, platforms and operational processes.
A few reasons why you will love this job:
* A highimpact leadership role shaping the future of SelectScience’s digital platforms.
* Huge opportunity for professional growth, autonomy and influence.
* Hybrid working, competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.
* Friendly, collaborative and innovative culture.
* 25 days holiday + bank holidays.
Our team has an infectious drive for innovation, creativity and supporting the scientific community. At SelectScience, we promote passion, teamwork, trust and striving to be the best we can.