Director IT & Digital Transformation
The Mandate
Hatwit International is conducting an Executive Search mandate for a well-established international organisation undergoing a significant technology and digital transformation.
The organisation is evolving towards a more integrated, platform-driven operating model, with digital products and technology becoming increasingly central to customer experience, operational scalability and future growth.
Within this context, the newly created Director IT & Digital Transformation role will be instrumental in building a stronger technology foundation, increasing execution discipline and enabling the organisation to scale its digital ecosystem.
The Role
The role will lead the end-to-end IT and digital transformation agenda, with responsibility across technology architecture, digital platforms, delivery, data, cybersecurity and organisational capability.
A key priority will be to stabilise and structure the existing technology environment, clarify ownership and governance, and create the architecture and operating model required for greater integration and scalability.
The role will also work closely with business and product stakeholders to align technology investment and delivery with strategic priorities, while strengthening the organisation’s ability to use data, digital platforms and technology as business enablers.
The Leadership Mandate
- Stabilise and strengthen the core IT foundation, including systems, ownership, documentation and governance.
- Define a scalable target architecture and improve integration across platforms and legacy systems.
- Establish stronger delivery discipline, roadmaps, prioritisation and execution governance.
- Build a clearer product and technology operating model across IT, Product and Business.
- Strengthen data, analytics and digital capabilities to support business and customer decisions.
- Build and lead a coherent technology organisation across internal teams and external partners.
- Maintain strong cybersecurity and compliance standards while enabling transformation and growth.
Leadership Profile
We are looking for a senior technology leader with significant experience in IT transformation, digital platforms and complex technology environments.
Relevant profiles may come from CIO, CTO, Head of IT or Engineering leadership backgrounds, particularly where they have led legacy modernisation, system integration, platform development and organisational transformation.
The strongest candidates will combine strategic technology perspective with a pragmatic and hands-on leadership style, and will be comfortable operating in environments where structure, ownership and processes still need to be built or strengthened.
Experience leading hybrid internal and external technology teams, improving delivery performance and aligning business, product and IT priorities will be particularly relevant. The role calls for 10–15+ years of technology leadership and proven experience transforming complex environments, integrating systems and scaling digital platforms.
Hatwit Search Perspective
For this mandate, we are not looking for a purely governance-oriented CIO.
The relevant leader needs to combine technology strategy with execution capability, able to stabilise what exists today while simultaneously building the architecture, operating model and organisation required for the next stage of growth.
We are therefore particularly interested in builder profiles: leaders who have created structure in complex environments, modernised legacy technology, improved delivery discipline and scaled digital platforms rather than only maintaining mature IT organisations.