Principal Software Consultant at Red Badger, London Area, 6 Months, £Competitive Day Rate (Outside IR35)

• Freelance (outside IR35)
• Immediate start
• 6 Months +
• £competitive day rate
• 2/3 days / week in person working (Old Street)
• Retail (e-commerce) or FS experience

We are looking for an Interim (Freelance) Tech Director to join Red Badger.

As Interim Tech Director, you'll take the lead on shaping & delivering complex and interesting client engagements. Often working closely and collaboratively with a Managing Director, Product Director and Delivery Director, together you'll be leading both operationally and strategically to promote joy, quality and growth throughout Red Badger. You will also help to build opportunities for meaningful work to clients and badgers alike.

Key responsibilities

Lead and Manage Client Accounts

● Lead and own client accounts and work streams, from shaping a project to delivering

agreed outcomes.

● Become a trusted advisor for our clients by collaborating with them to solve problems,

and create products and services which deliver business and customer value.

● Be accountable for complex digital transformation projects and help shape the

technical direction of the client’s product delivery.

● Communicate with confidence to a broad range of stakeholders and client teams.

● Negotiate and manage client commercial agreements.

● Set up and shape appropriate Red Badger teams for our clients.

Sales and Network development

● Support with qualifying and shaping early-stage opportunities, and create proposals

for new or existing clients.

● Work with sales and marketing teams to activate and grow your client network.

● Lead sales activities, from pitching and planning, through to commercials all the way to

to project kick off.

Ensure Red Badger Quality and Approach

● Champion Red Badger’s ways of working: cross functional teams, agile and lean best

practices, delivering value early, building quality in.

● Understand and communicate our cross functional value chain (Engineering, QA, UXD,

Product, and Delivery).

● Drive continuous improvement, quality and project delivery.

● Provide technical guidance to the delivery team

● Directly guide the technical strategy for our clients

● Work across one or more projects/delivery streams

● Build out new technology competencies within Red Badger

Your experience

● It’d be great if you have

○ Background in full stack DevOps and have built complex digital products.

○ Experience in consulting

○ Solved complex problems and organised others to see ideas through to

fruition

○ Had a senior engineering role in the creation of a customer-facing digital

product

○ Experience in sales and are confident in shaping an engagement strategy with

a new or existing client.