Vice President of Technology

- Job Title: Vice president/Associate Vice President, Healthcare - Business Unit: Healthcare - Location: United Kingdom, hybrid with regular customer, partner and industry engagement - Role Type: Senior Leadership - Employment Type: Permanent About Mastek Mastek is an enterprise digital and cloud transformation partner supporting customers across industries including healthcare and life sciences, public sector, financial services, retail and manufacturing. Its capabilities span digital experience and engineering, cloud, data, automation and AI, and managed services. Mastek works with major technology partners including Oracle, Microsoft, AWS, Salesforce and Snowflake. Within Healthcare, Mastek brings extensive experience supporting healthcare organisations with software engineering, cloud transformation, enterprise platforms, data, AI, analytics and automation. Its UK healthcare experience includes work across NHS England and its predecessor organisations, NHS Business Services Authority and other healthcare bodies. The Opportunity We are looking for an outstanding Chief Technology Officer, Healthcare to be a senior technology leader, industry ambassador and trusted adviser to our healthcare customers. This is a highly outward-facing leadership role. The Healthcare CTO will spend significant time engaging with customers, technology partners and the wider healthcare ecosystem, bringing informed perspectives on how technology can address the strategic challenges facing healthcare. The successful candidate will already be a recognised and credible leader within the healthcare technology sector, with an established network, strong industry profile and the ability to engage confidently with senior healthcare, technology and business leaders. They will help strengthen Mastek's position not only as a trusted technology delivery organisation, but also as a strategic partner able to bring insight, innovation and technology leadership to healthcare customers. Key Responsibilities Customer Technology Leadership - Act as a trusted technology adviser to strategic healthcare customers and prospects. - Build influential relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, CCIOs and other senior healthcare and technology leaders. - Engage customers on their strategic priorities, technology challenges and transformation ambitions. - Bring informed perspectives, ideas and constructive challenge to customer conversations rather than simply responding to stated requirements. - Lead and participate in executive briefings, innovation sessions, technology workshops and strategic customer meetings. - Support account teams in developing deeper technology relationships and identifying opportunities where Mastek can create additional value. Market and Industry Leadership - Act as a visible external technology leader and ambassador for Mastek Healthcare. - Represent Mastek at healthcare conferences, industry forums, roundtables and customer events. - Deliver keynote presentations, panel discussions, webinars and executive briefings. - Develop compelling thought leadership and points of view on the future of healthcare technology. - Maintain a strong external network across healthcare, government, technology organisations and the wider digital health ecosystem. - Help increase Mastek's visibility and reputation as a credible and informed voice within healthcare technology. Healthcare Technology Vision - Define and articulate the technology vision for Mastek Healthcare. - Maintain a forward-looking understanding of the technologies and architectural approaches that will shape healthcare. - Provide leadership across areas including cloud, software engineering, data, AI and automation, interoperability, digital identity and enterprise technology. - Translate emerging technologies into practical healthcare applications and propositions that address genuine customer challenges. - Connect Mastek's technology strategy and capabilities to evolving healthcare priorities. - Work with engineering, architecture, consulting and delivery leaders to translate market-facing technology strategy into meaningful customer solutions. Strategic Technology Partnerships - Develop senior relationships with Mastek's strategic technology partners relevant to Healthcare. - Work with major ecosystem partners such as AWS, Oracle and Microsoft to identify opportunities for deeper strategic collaboration. These organisations are represented within Mastek's existing Healthcare partner landscape. - Help shape joint healthcare propositions, solutions, innovation initiatives and go-to-market activities. - Connect partner technology and innovation with healthcare customer challenges and Mastek capabilities. - Identify opportunities for joint customer engagement, executive briefings, industry events and thought leadership. - Help move strategic relationships beyond transactional alliance management towards meaningful market and customer collaboration. Growth and Proposition Development - Work closely with Healthcare leadership, sales and account teams on strategic customers and growth opportunities. - Bring senior technology credibility and thought leadership to priority pursuits. - Identify emerging customer requirements and market opportunities and translate these insights into differentiated propositions. - Help develop compelling technology narratives, solutions and points of view. - Shape propositions across Mastek's healthcare capabilities, including software engineering, cloud, enterprise platforms, data, AI, analytics and automation. - Participate selectively in major bids and pursuits where CTO-level engagement will materially strengthen Mastek's proposition. Technology Leadership and Community - Provide visible technology leadership across the Healthcare business. - Connect Mastek's engineering, architecture, cloud, data, AI and platform capabilities around customer and healthcare outcomes. - Mentor senior architects, engineers and technology leaders and help develop the next generation of technology leadership. - Encourage teams to understand the healthcare and customer outcomes enabled by their work, not simply the technology being delivered. - Promote knowledge sharing, innovation and strong technology communities of practice. Experience and Background The successful candidate is expected to bring: - Significant senior technology leadership experience within healthcare, digital health, health technology or a closely related environment. - An established reputation and credible professional profile within the healthcare technology sector. - A strong understanding of the NHS and UK healthcare technology landscape. - A track record of building trusted relationships with senior customer executives and technology leaders. - Experience shaping complex, enterprise-scale digital and technology transformation. - Broad technology knowledge spanning several areas such as cloud, software engineering, data, AI, architecture, interoperability, platforms and cybersecurity. - Experience engaging strategically with major global technology companies and ecosystem partners. - Demonstrable ability to translate technology developments into practical customer and business outcomes. - Experience supporting strategic sales opportunities, propositions and major customer engagements. - Strong public-speaking, presentation and executive communication experience. - Evidence of contributing to industry thinking through speaking engagements, publications, professional communities or equivalent activities. Skills and Personal Attributes We are looking for someone who is: - Customer focused: Naturally motivated to spend time understanding customers, their organisations and their strategic challenges. - Externally oriented: Comfortable representing Mastek with customers, partners and across the wider healthcare sector. - Technically authoritative: Able to engage credibly with technical specialists while making complex technology accessible to executive audiences. - A compelling communicator: An accomplished presenter and storyteller who can create enthusiasm and confidence around technology and innovation. - Commercially minded: Understands how technology strategy, customer value and commercial growth connect. - Strategic and pragmatic: Able to provide a strong point of view while recognising the operational, commercial and organisational realities customers face. - Influential: Comfortable constructively challenging customers, colleagues and partners at senior levels. - Collaborative: Able to work effectively across sales, consulting, engineering, architecture, delivery and partner organisations. - Outcome focused: Passionate about using technology to create measurable improvements for healthcare organisations, professionals, patients and citizens. What Success Looks Like Success in this role will be demonstrated through: - Strong, trusted relationships with senior technology and healthcare leaders across strategic accounts. - Increased visibility and credibility for Mastek within the healthcare technology community. - Customers actively seeking Mastek's technology perspectives and strategic advice. - Stronger strategic engagement with key technology partners and development of compelling joint initiatives. - Differentiated technology propositions addressing important healthcare challenges. - Technology leadership making a tangible contribution to strategic account development and growth. - Greater connection between Mastek's technology capabilities and the outcomes its healthcare customers are seeking. - A strong internal community of healthcare technology leaders who are increasingly visible with customers and in the market. Why Mastek? This role provides an opportunity to help shape Mastek's technology position within one of its key sectors, combining technology leadership with direct engagement across customers, partners and the healthcare community. The Healthcare CTO will have the opportunity to influence how emerging technologies are applied to important healthcare challenges while helping Mastek deepen its role as a strategic technology partner.