Head of Technology & Data

Carterwood is hiring a Head of Technology & Data to shape, own and evolve the data, product platform and back-end operations that have made us the go-to source of commercial market-intelligence for developers, operators, and investors in the social care and retirement living markets.

We're an ambitious market analysis company that has launched a highly successful SaaS product, and are now turning our attention to both growing our core business and exploring new products and markets.

Joining our senior leadership team, you'll have influence and management ownership across: our data, analytics and platform operations; manifesting the technology strategy; data architecture, data management, insights generation; budgets; people management and development; outsourced software development partner relationships; product delivery and quality; security; service delivery, and more besides.

Joining during a period of positive change and investment in technology, Carterwood is somewhere that you can have a real impact. We're open to this being your first senior leadership role, or somewhere to spread your wings. 

You'll have our full support in embracing technology as we diversify and scale the business. 

We have lots of growth-enabling milestones ahead and we will welcome your ability to influence where we go and how we get there.

Early deliverables for you and your team

• Working with the founders, SLT and outsourced CTO to help shape new overarching data, analytics and technology strategy
• Integrating our data and analytics functions and teams into one coordinated unit: https://www.carterwood.co.uk/analytics/
• Reviewing our current systems, processes and technologies
• Overseeing integration of new data sources
• Hiring new people into your team
• Helping founders explore and validate new concepts and capabilities
• Exploring predictive algorithms, recommendation engines etc.

We're looking for

• A clarity of direction, and ability to inspire and deliver change
• Strong understanding of data architectures, data models, data standards and data management
• Strong understanding of the principles, technologies and good practices in analytics and data science
• Good understanding of Agile and modern software engineering practices
• Good understanding of delivering services through AWS or Azure 
• Conscientious people management skills, inspiring the best from people
• A software delivery focus, ready to own the output of a team and of outsourced development and IT partners
• Commercial acumen and comfortable working with senior stakeholders and customers
• A pragmatic, positive, approach to assessing new technology and finding better ways of working

Ecosystem used by your team - we'll welcome your influence

.NET | SQL Server | PostgreSQL | MySQL | SQL | R | AWS | QGIS | Linux | bash | PL/pgSQL | Perl | Azure DevOps, Git

Salary and benefits

• c.£70,000 - £90,000+ we're keeping an open mind 
• Discretionary annual bonus – dependent on company revenue target
• Discretionary relocation assistance
• 28 days' holiday, plus bank holidays and a day for your birthday
• Initially home based – but after lockdown should be able to attend regular and ad-hoc collaborative meetings in the office, up to two days per week
• Company-wide winter and summer social events
• Full time role with flexible hours and family friendly arrangements, let us know what you need

About us

Contacting over 1,000 health & social care services per annum and acting for 85% of the top 20 care home group operators, we live and breathe data and analysis for care homes, retirement living and specialist care. As we pioneer new products and undertake unique research projects to help improve decision making, we're driven by two core values: ‘do it right’ and ‘do it fast’. Developed with our team, these values really sum up who we are and the totally different mindset we adopt, and the many awards we’ve picked up since 2008 are a testament to that. Carterwood is an equal opportunity employer. We'll do our best to make you feel listened to, valued and understood within our hiring process and organisation. We look forward to exploring your strengths and interests, building a role that delivers positive growth to both fulfil our company plans and your personal development. https://www.carterwood.co.uk/meet-the-team/

Location: primarily remote, with regular and ad-hoc visits to our offices in north Bristol

Please be in touch with Vittoria at techfolk, our recruitment partner, to find out more: