Core Technology was created by practitioners who build and run enterprise platforms. The business sits alongside Transforming Technology, a consulting firm delivering infrastructure, cloud, and platform programmes for global organisations. Those programmes place our teams inside complex estates where technology, governance, and operational responsibility intersect.
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That experience shapes how Core Technology operates. Practitioners help define roles, guide the assessment process, and contribute to hiring decisions. Their involvement brings delivery context into recruitment and ensures candidates are evaluated with an understanding of enterprise environments.
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Core Technology supports organisations operating large infrastructure estates, multi-cloud platforms, regulated data environments, and security-sensitive systems. We work with technology leaders building permanent teams capable of owning platforms, operating services, and guiding technology through ongoing change.
The CORE Framework evaluates candidates across four areas that reflect the responsibilities of enterprise technology roles.
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Context & Capability Definition establishes the programme environment, platform maturity, governance structures, and stakeholder expectations shaping the role. Practitioners help define responsibilities and success criteria so candidates are assessed against real delivery conditions.
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Operational & Ownership Readiness explores experience running production services, maintaining platform health, managing incidents, controlling cloud cost, and guiding platforms through continuous development.
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Real-World Technical Assessment examines architectural judgement, platform design decisions, and problem solving through delivery scenarios led by experienced practitioners.
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Engagement & Cultural Alignment considers collaboration with engineering teams, leadership interaction, and communication across enterprise stakeholders.
Hiring for enterprise technology roles requires an understanding of how platforms are delivered, operated, and evolved over time. Core Technology uses the CORE Framework to guide how roles are defined and how candidates are evaluated before introduction to a client.
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The framework was developed through practitioner involvement across infrastructure, cloud, data, and security programmes delivered within large organisations. Each stage reflects conditions that engineers and technology leaders encounter inside enterprise estates. The process establishes delivery context, evaluates operational capability, explores technical decision making, and considers how individuals contribute within engineering teams and wider business structures.
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The result is a hiring process shaped by programme delivery experience and aligned with the environments where candidates will operate.
Chris Beattie
"I grew up in Ayrshire, Scotland and moved to London in 2011 to begin my career in recruitment. It was an introduction to the people behind large technology programmes and how important the right hires are to their success.
In 2017, I moved into technology consulting, working on major cloud and infrastructure transformations. Being part of those programmes changed how I think about hiring.
Once the platform is delivered, the permanent team responsible for running it becomes critical.
In 2022 I founded Transforming Technology, a cloud consulting firm that has since become one of the fastest growing businesses in the UK. As we worked with more global organisations, we kept seeing the same situation appear. The transformation programme ends, consultants begin to roll off, and organisations begin hiring permanent teams to run the platforms that have just been built. Knowledge transfer between programme teams and permanent hires is often rushed or loosely structured, and the people coming in are expected to operate complex environments from day one.
Core Technology was created to help with that transition. We draw directly on the experience of Transforming Technology consultants when assessing candidates. The practitioners who design and deliver these programmes help evaluate the permanent leaders and engineers who will run them, bringing practical delivery experience and an understanding of what good knowledge transfer and operational readiness looks like.
Outside of the business, you’ll usually find me out running, following sport, or spending time with my two kids, Cameron and Erin."