Head of Technology (IT)

NOVOVISION is a casino management system serving dozens of customers across the gaming industry. The company is entering a phase of deliberate growth and product stabilisation, aiming to build a world-class technology platform that is cloud-ready, scalable, and future-proof. Significant investment is being made in the engineering organisation to raise quality, build a solid product vision, and make foundational technology decisions for future growth.

Must-have experience:

• Proven track record leading engineering organisations of 50+ people
• Strong hands-on engineering background - able to challenge technical decisions, review architecture, and speak credibly to teams
• Experience managing and developing engineering managers (not just individual contributors)
• Delivered meaningful technology transformation - cloud migration, platform modernisation, or re-architecture of legacy systems
• Comfortable operating in a complex, multi-technology environment (polyglot stacks, mixed deployment models)

Leadership approach:

• Servant leader at heart - believes job is to remove obstacles and enable teams to do their best work
• Decisive when it matters, consultative when it adds value
• High emotional intelligence and communication maturity - operating between technical teams and a CEO
• Builds management capability around self, not dependency
• Holds people accountable with respect, clarity, and consistency

Optional:

• Familiarity with the gaming / casino domain - compliance considerations, hardware integration, high-availability requirements
• Experience with AWS and cloud migration programmes
• Background in product-led organisations or close collaboration with Product Owners

Build and lead the engineering organisation:

• Own the structure, performance, and culture of the ~80-person technology department
• Create and develop a strong management layer - identify, grow, and hire engineering managers beneath you
• Establish clear accountability, engineering standards, and delivery discipline across all teams
• Work closely with team leads who currently operate without a senior management layer above them

Stabilise and scale engineering delivery:

• Establish predictable, reliable delivery cadences across product and component teams
• Introduce or refine engineering processes: planning, estimation, incident management, technical debt governance
• Work with QA and DevOps (both functioning as separate, mature groups) to strengthen cross-functional delivery flows
• Identify systemic bottlenecks - particularly in the shared frontend group and cross-team dependencies - and resolve them

Align technology with product vision:

• Partner with the Product Owner to ensure the technical roadmap supports and enables the product strategy
• Translate business growth ambitions into scalable technology decisions - particularly around multi-customer cloud deployments
• Contribute to technology positioning as a competitive differentiator in the casino management space

Represent technology at the leadership level:

• Be the voice of engineering in leadership discussions - balancing speed, quality, and technical sustainability
• Report directly to the CEO; own the technology narrative for the business
• Engage selectively with key customers or partners where technology credibility is required