Head of Enterprise Technology Roadmap

Location: Basingstoke (Hybrid working, 3 office days per week)

Employment Type: Permanent, Full Time

Why Join Us?

• Annual bonus, cash car allowance and private medical insurance
• Own and shape The AA’s enterprise technology roadmap, influencing how we move towards our future technology state across a large and complex organisation
• Bring together strategic priorities across Architecture, Engineering, Data, Platforms, Value Streams and Product, helping ensure technology investment is focused where it can create the greatest long term value
• Operate with enterprise wide visibility and senior leadership exposure, providing the insight and direction needed to navigate complex choices across modernisation, technical debt, resilience, risk, cost and pace

For over a century, The AA has been keeping Britain moving. Today, millions of drivers trust us to be there when it matters most, and we're equally committed to supporting the people who make that possible. With a 4.5-star Glassdoor rating, we've built a culture where colleagues are empowered to grow, collaborate and make a real impact for our customers on every journey. Which has been recognised by Sunday Times “Best Places to Work” for the last two years. 

This is the Job

We’re looking for a Head of Enterprise Technology Roadmap to join our Chief Technology Office (CTO) and play a key role in shaping how the AA delivers its long term technology strategy.

You’ll own and drive our enterprise technology roadmap, translating technology strategy and target architecture into a clear, prioritised and actionable path towards the AA’s future technology state. Working across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Data, Value Streams, Platforms and strategic partners, you’ll bring together technology priorities into a coherent enterprise view and help ensure investment is focused where it can create the greatest strategic value.

With an enterprise wide remit, you’ll create visibility across technology dependencies, investment choices, technical debt and lifecycle risks, helping senior leaders navigate the trade offs between value, cost, risk, pace and long term sustainability. You’ll also establish clear measures for tracking progress and benefits, ensuring the roadmap continues to evolve as business priorities, technology choices and investment decisions change.

What You’ll Do

• Own and maintain the integrated enterprise technology roadmap, providing a clear short, medium and long term view of our journey towards the AA’s target technology state.
• Translate technology strategy and target architecture into actionable priorities, bringing together plans across Value Streams, Platforms, Architecture, Engineering, Data and other technology capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to maximise technology investment through modernisation, simplification, resilience, security, lifecycle management and the reduction of technical debt.
• Provide enterprise visibility of strategic technology risks, dependencies and sequencing requirements, clearly articulating trade offs across value, cost, risk, pace and long term sustainability.
• Establish measures for tracking roadmap outcomes, benefits and progress, providing clear, evidence based insight to support technology investment and prioritisation decisions.
• Build strong relationships across technology and business leadership, influencing senior and executive stakeholders and connecting strategic technology direction with plans across the organisation.

What You’ll Bring

• Significant experience in technology strategy, technology planning, enterprise architecture, engineering strategy or a comparable senior technology role within a large, complex organisation.
• Proven experience developing and managing enterprise scale technology roadmaps spanning multiple platforms, products or organisational domains.
• Strong experience translating technology strategy and target architecture into clear priorities, sequencing, investment choices and pragmatic delivery plans.
• Broad enterprise technology knowledge spanning areas such as cloud, platforms, data, integration, cyber security, infrastructure and modern engineering practices, alongside an understanding of modernisation, lifecycle management and technical debt.
• Strong commercial and strategic judgement, with experience connecting business strategy and investment priorities to longer term technology needs and evaluating complex dependencies and trade offs.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing capability, with the credibility to operate across organisational boundaries and communicate complex technology choices clearly to senior technical and non technical audiences.

Nice to Have

• Experience operating within a regulated or operationally critical environment.
• Relevant technology strategy, enterprise architecture, product, portfolio or transformation qualifications.
• Relevant cloud or technology certifications.

Belonging at The AA

At The AA, we value the unique perspectives, experiences and ideas that our people bring. We've nurtured a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to do their best work.

Through our employee communities and inclusion initiatives, we’ve created opportunities for people to connect, share experiences and influence positive change across the business. This is a place where your voice matters and where you can belong, grow and succeed.

Driven by People, Rewarded by Benefits

We believe in rewarding our people. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package including;

• 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, the option to buy additional holiday
• Up to 7% employer pension contribution
• Free AA breakdown membership from Day One with 50% discount for family and friends, discounts on AA products including car and home insurance
• 24/7 GP access and wellbeing support for you and your family
• A wide range of employee discounts, including our popular car salary sacrifice scheme

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