Martin Mitchell

Commercially focused CxO, Technology, Change and Transformation, Product

Greater Oxford Area

About

Experienced IT delivery leader with a demonstrated history of achieving results across financial services (B2C & B2B), secure government and retail industries. Commercially focused, product centric leader. I believe in setting goal based outcomes to inspire teams with desired outcome and empowering them to deliver business value, while remaining engaged through active participation in problem solving.

Experience

  • Chief Transformation Officer at Snap Finance UK
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

    Leading the UK change and IT functions to build inclusive retail finance solutions

  • Chief Technology Officer at DivideBuy
    Apr 2021 - Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos

    Leading a hybrid team to deliver retail finance (BNPL) solutions to high street names such as Octopus, Simba Sleep and Dusk. * Recovered monolith to microservices project * Helped secure private equity investment * Transformed delivery from change/run to product model * Delivered regulated products: Interest Bearing and Long Term Interest Free * Built multi award winning platform * Help secure acquisition by Zopa bank * Championed and delivered MACH architecture * Led lending engine and membership integration

  • Bibby Financial Services (6 yrs 4 mos)
    • Head of IT: Solution Architecture and Engineering
      Apr 2019 - Feb 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Reporting to the CIO, as the chief technologist within the group. Responsible for the IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture and Product Roadmaps. Accountable for the delivery by the technical teams across the strategic investment portfolio and the DevOps product communities.

    • Lead Application and Data Architect
      Apr 2018 - Apr 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Lead domain architect with line management responsibility across architecture and diverse engineering teams. From software engineering, application integration, data development and BI.

    • Programme Director
      Jan 2017 - Mar 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Responsible for digital transformation to enable the omni channel vison and global delivery of the technical projects within Change Management Services. Covering core platfrom, applications and infrastructure delivery.

  • HP Enterprise Services (7 yrs 5 mos)
    • Programme Manager
      Apr 2010 - Nov 2014 · 4 yrs 8 mos

      Led programs across multiple secure government business units from UK Public Sector for Secure Mobility, the ATLAS Transformation Programme; and Defence for Command and Control Systems.

    • Project Manager
      Jul 2007 - Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Led a variety of increasingly complex Ministry of Defence outsourced delivery projects. Including the recovery of several distressed deliveries.

    • Development Team Manager
      Jul 2007 - Dec 2008 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Accountable for the development and delivery of secure command and control systems. Web, Distributed Client Server and plug-ins.

  • Torex (6 yrs 6 mos)
    • Development Team Leader
      Nov 2005 - Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Retail software development in Java for head office, back office and POS systems.

    • Implementation Team Lead
      Nov 2004 - Dec 2005 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Responsible for leading a implementation team to deliver solutions from deal acquisition through to roll-out.

    • Technical Product Specialist
      Sep 2003 - Nov 2004 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Product take-on and pre-sales consultant for Java based retail systems.