Be our next Chief Information Officer

The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is a core member of the Pluxee UK Country Leadership Team and a strategic partner to the Managing Director. This role exists to define, enable and deliver the UK technology vision in direct alignment with business strategy, growth ambitions and customer value propositions. The CIO is accountable for shaping and executing a modern, secure, scalable and resilient technology ecosystem that powers Pluxee's products, platforms and services. This includes ownership of engineering delivery, platform evolution, operational resilience, data strategy, and cyber security, ensuring that technology is a source of competitive advantage, innovation and sustainable growth.

What you'll do

At Pluxee, you'll be empowered to make a difference alongside a close, collaborative team. Your key responsibilities will include:

🚀 Your next challenge:

Strategy and Leadership

• Act as a trusted strategic partner to the Managing Director and Country Leadership Team on technology enabled growth, digital transformation, and operational efficiency.
• Shape and deliver the UK technology strategy, aligned with Pluxee global architecture.
• Ensure that technology investment decisions deliver measurable value, customer impact, and return on investment.

Engineering Excellence & Platform Delivery :

• Define and own the UK technology vision, ensuring scalability and adaptability.
• Lead the evolution of UK platforms, integrating global capabilities with local requirements.
• Future-proof the technology estate to enable products, services and revenue streams.
• Establish high-performance engineering teams, and a culture of accountability, agility, and continuous improvement.
• Establish modern engineering practices: DevOps, CI/CD, cloud-first architecture
• Lead engineering strategy and execution, with focus on speed-to-market and quality.
• Represent the UK technology agenda within global and regional CIO communities.

Data & Analytics Leadership

• Define and lead the UK data strategy, enabling actionable insight for commercial growth, customer personalisation and operational optimisation.
• Establish strong data governance, quality, integrity and ethical use frameworks.
• Position data as a strategic asset across the organisation.

Digital Operations, resilience & Cyber Security :

• Ensure robust, secure and resilient IT operations across all UK systems and platforms.
• Maintain high availability, business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Protect brand reputation through operational excellence and regulatory compliance.
• Strengthen cyber posture and incident response.
• Own the UK Cyber Security strategy, ensuring protection of client, partner and consumer data.
• Ensure compliance with UK regulatory requirements and global information security standards.
• Embed security by design principles across platforms and engineering practices.
• Lead incident response, risk mitigation and ongoing threat monitoring.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Drive proactive risk management and service performance monitoring.
• Ensure compliance with Group IS&T policies and UK regulations.
• Manage technology budgets and vendor relationships.
• Improve ITSM, change management and governance processes.

People & Organisational Leadership

• Serve as a visible leader across the business, promoting technology as a strategic enabler.
• Lead Engineering, Digital Operations, Infosec, and Data leaders.
• Build a high-performance culture and develop leadership capability.

What you'll be accountable for:

• Improved speed-to-market
• Improved engineering quality and platform reliability
• Stronger data foundation and insights
• High availability and resiliency of systems
• Improved cyber security posture

🌟 You're a match:

Who we're looking for

Pluxee is an inclusive team with a shared passion for employee experience. You'll be the ideal match for this role if you have:

Experience & Expertise

• 10-15+ years of senior technology leadership
• Track record in engineering modernisation (Cloud, Devops)
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary technology functions
• Experience in global or matrix environments

Leadership & Behaviours

• Strategic thinker with strong execution capability.
• Commercial acumen
• Excellent communicator and collaborator.
• Customer-centric mindset.
• Resilient, adaptable, decisive.

🔎 Your Location:

• Milton Keynes, UK

☀️ Happy at work:
1) A meaningful job: Be the change! Help us build the future of employee benefits by bringing to life sustainable and personalized experiences and contribute to make a real impact on millions of lives. Our business model delivers not just for individuals but their communities too, by supporting local businesses and economies.
2) A great culture: People matter - a lot! Be part of a multicultural team that moves as one in a fast paced and innovative environment. We respect and care authentically about our people, we embrace wellbeing and work-life balance, new ideas and we have a lot of fun!
3) An empowering environment: Be yourself! At Pluxee we proudly embrace diversity and value the uniqueness of our talents, fostering an inclusive workplace where all abilities are celebrated, and equal learning and growing opportunities are a given.