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Technical Lead (Contract)
Contract: Initial 6-Month Contract (Rolling)
Rate: £500–£650 per day
Location: London (Hybrid Working)
Reporting to: Head of Service Delivery
Technical Lead – Enterprise Technology & Service Operations
We are currently seeking an experienced Technical Lead to join a high-profile organisation on an initial 6-month rolling contract. This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on technical leader to take ownership of a complex enterprise technology estate, ensuring operational excellence, resilience, security, and continuous improvement across business-critical systems.
Working closely with the Enterprise Architect, Head of Service Delivery, managed service providers, and senior business stakeholders, you will play a key role in bridging the gap between technology design and operational delivery, ensuring new solutions are successfully transitioned into BAU support and optimised throughout their lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the transition of newly implemented technology solutions into operational support.
- Act as the technical custodian for the live IT environment, ensuring stability, resilience, performance, and security.
- Provide technical governance and oversight of third-party managed service providers.
- Assess technical changes for impact, risk, and alignment with architectural standards.
- Lead root cause analysis and resolution of major incidents and recurring technical issues.
- Maintain technical standards, documentation, and operational architecture artefacts.
- Drive platform lifecycle management, upgrades, patching strategies, and technical debt reduction.
- Collaborate with Security and Resilience teams to ensure secure-by-design principles are embedded throughout the technology estate.
- Facilitate technical reviews with stakeholders to identify risks, improvements, and optimisation opportunities.
- Contribute operational insight into technology roadmap planning and future-state initiatives.
- Ensure compliance, security, and regulatory requirements are effectively managed.
Required Experience
We're looking for a technically strong leader with broad enterprise technology experience and a proven track record of operating within complex environments.
Essential Skills
- Strong technical expertise across enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, security, systems, and integration technologies.
- Experience supporting enterprise architecture within operational environments.
- Strong understanding of ITIL and service management best practices.
- Ability to translate architectural designs into sustainable operational support models.
- Experience managing and governing outsourced or managed service providers.
- Strong knowledge of change management, risk assessment, and technical governance.
- Experience balancing BAU support, operational improvement, and strategic technology initiatives.
- Comfortable working within both agile and traditional delivery frameworks.
Stakeholder Management
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to influence senior business and technology stakeholders.
- Proven experience working closely with architects, service delivery teams, and external partners.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to drive technical discussions and resolve complex issues.
- Passion for operational excellence, documentation standards, and continuous improvement.
What's on Offer?
- Initial 6-month contract with strong likelihood of extension.
- Competitive day rate of £500–£650 per day.
- Hybrid working model with a London-based office.
- Opportunity to influence the operational direction of a large-scale enterprise technology environment.
- Work alongside senior technology leaders and architects on strategically important initiatives.
If you're an experienced Technical Lead with a strong background in enterprise technology operations, service governance, and stakeholder management, we'd like to hear from you.
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This is an exciting time to join Discover
In spring 2026 we delivered a major programme of business transformation including rebuilding site infrastructure, new visitor spaces, an improved ticketing model and revised accounting system and procedures.
We’re now looking for a permanent, part-time Finance Director to join our Senior Management team, shape and manage the finance department and bring financial insight to all areas of decision making.
Overview of the role
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Overseeing and continuously improving our financial systems, controls and processes
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Leading, mentoring and developing the finance team
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Producing management accounts and reports to funders
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Analysis of financial performance and drivers
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Leading budgeting, forecasting and financial planning processes.
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Cash and treasury management
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Prepare statutory accounts and run the external audit processes.
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VAT checks and returns
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Ensuring compliance with charity, company and tax regulations and funder requirements
More information and a Job Description can be found on our website.
Registered Charity
21 - 50
Transforming lives through stories
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"Lead finance. Shape strategy. Change lives."
Aspire Oxfordshire is an ambitious charity working to tackle inequality and create lasting opportunities for people and communities facing disadvantage. Every year, we support people experiencing homelessness, poverty, poor mental health, digital exclusion, unemployment and other barriers to reaching their potential.
Through supported housing, homelessness prevention, education, training and employment programmes and digital inclusion projects, we help people take positive steps towards greater independence, wellbeing and opportunity.
We are now seeking a values-led and commercially minded Head of Finance and Resources to join our Leadership Team and play a key role in shaping Aspire's future.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced finance professional who wants to combine strategic leadership with hands-on operational delivery in an organisation that makes a tangible difference every day.
As Head of Finance and Resources, you will lead Aspire's finance and resource functions, ensuring strong financial stewardship, effective governance, organisational resilience and sustainable growth. Working closely with the Chief Executive, Trustees and senior colleagues, you will help shape organisational strategy, support business development and fundraising activity, and ensure the charity remains financially strong and well positioned for the future.
Who We Are Looking For
We are looking for someone who combines strong technical finance expertise with excellent leadership and relationship-building skills. You will be equally comfortable presenting financial information to Trustees, supporting managers to improve financial performance, and helping to identify opportunities that strengthen our impact and sustainability.
You will bring:
• A recognised accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) and/or significant senior financial management experience.
• Experience of leading finance and operational functions within a charity, public sector, social enterprise or similarly complex organisation.
• Strong strategic financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting skills.
• Experience of producing meaningful management information and using data to support organisational decision-making.
• Advanced Power BI and financial reporting skills, with the ability to develop insightful dashboards and reporting solutions.
• Knowledge of grant funding, commissioned services and restricted fund management.
• Experience of developing and improving systems, processes and organisational effectiveness.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate, support and develop others.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with Trustees, funders, partners and colleagues.
• A practical, solutions-focused approach and willingness to work collaboratively across the organisation.
• A commitment to Aspire's values and a genuine passion for creating opportunities for people facing disadvantage.
Why Join Aspire?
This is an opportunity to join an ambitious organisation at an exciting point in its development. You will play a key role in helping Aspire deliver its Strategy 2025–2030, supporting innovative services that help people secure safe housing, improve their wellbeing, gain qualifications, access employment and build brighter futures.
In return we offer:
• Salary: £50,000 – £55,000 per annum
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Pension contribution
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Hybrid working arrangements
• The opportunity to make a genuine difference in the lives of people across Oxfordshire
Aspire Oxfordshire celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and particularly encourage applications from groups currently underrepresented in the charity sector.
Registered Charity
51 - 100
Aspire Oxfordshire empowers people to realise their potential and create positive, independent futures.