CTO - Project Based
Toucanberry Tech
United Kingdom (Remote)
Freelance
About the Role
Description
Who we are:
Toucanberry Tech is a boutique software consultancy specialising in the reinsurance sector. We build innovative products and services by organizing cross-functional squads covering product, design, engineering, and data. We value autonomy, results, and cutting through bureaucracy.
The role:
You will embed within strategic client programmes as the senior technical authority, shaping direction, influencing executives, and ensuring large-scale transformation is structured, pragmatic, and deliverable.
- Act as the senior technical leader within complex client environments
- Shape and refine technology strategy alongside C-level stakeholders
- Translate business ambition into executable architectural direction
- De-risk large transformation programmes by breaking them into iterative value delivery
- Provide calm, credibly challenge and be grounded in delivery reality
- Ability to quickly identify and resolve any blockers as they arise
- Elevate and protect engineering teams so they can perform at their best
- Ability to report concisely both internally and externally
Requirements
We are looking for an experienced consultancy technology leader that has worked across multiple delivery engagements with a breadth of solutions knowledge within Cloud and Data.
- Led large-scale digital transformations within consultancy engagements
- Influenced C suite executives including CTO’s, CIO’s and CDO’s amongst others
- Strong architectural judgement across modern cloud and data platforms is essential
- Experience navigating ambiguity in complex organisations
- The ability to balance influence, diplomacy, and commercial awareness
- Experience in insurance, reinsurance, financial services, or regulated industries is highly valuable.
What Success Looks Like
- Clients view you as an embedded strategic advisor and the face of Toucanberry Tech
- Complex initiatives become clear, structured, and deliverable under your control
- Engineering teams feel supported and protected
- Architecture decisions are coherent, scalable, and pragmatic
- Transformation maintains momentum, even under pressure
Benefits
- Fully Remote
- Outside IR35
- Long term contract
- c£800 Per Day
Please let Toucanberry Tech know that you found this role at ctojobshq.com as a way to support us, so we can keep providing you with great CTO job opportunities.
Compensation
GBP800.00 -
Daily