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The Talent Gaps That Slow Technology Teams

High functioning technology teams depend on experienced people who make sound decisions, own outcomes and maintain stability under pressure. When critical technical roles remain unfilled, teams lose momentum. Release cycles lengthen. Risk increases. Leadership loses predictability.

Adept supports technology and people leaders by strengthening their access to senior tech talent and technical roles essential for delivery, scale and reliability.

Explore Core Tech Talent Domains

Capability areas and specialisations that shape delivery performance

Software Development

This capability governs how products evolve, how systems change under pressure and how technical decisions age over time. Strong teams here enable faster delivery without creating instability or long-term rework.

Frontend Development
Mobile Application Development
Backend Development
Software Architecture & Design
Full-Stack Development

Cybersecurity

Security capability protects organisational continuity, customer trust and regulatory standing. Mature teams operate proactively, embedding protection into systems rather than reacting to incidents after exposure.

Security Operations & Monitoring
Network & Infrastructure Security
Identity & Access Management
Compliance & Risk Management
Application Security

Infrastructure, Cloud & Security

This domain determines whether systems can scale safely, recover quickly and operate predictably. It anchors uptime, deployment confidence and operational discipline as environments grow more complex.

Infrastructure
Cloud, DevOps and Security

Data, AI & ML

Data capability defines how effectively organisations convert information into insight, automation and competitive advantage. Mature teams prioritise data trust, governance and production readiness.

Modern Data & AI Stack
Platform & Application Integration

Quality Assurance and Testing

Quality capability safeguards release stability and customer experience as platforms evolve.

QA Automation
Performance Testing
Release Quality Assurance

ERP and Enterprise Systems

ERP capability anchors finance, operations and compliance across the organisation.

Focus areas

  • Core system stability
  • Accurate transactional processing
  • Audit and regulatory readiness

Why Tech Talent Has Become a Strategic Constraint

Demand for senior talent continues to grow across organisations modernising platforms, improving security, maturing data functions and delivering new digital experiences. Skilled individuals remain limited and selective.

Current dynamics

  • Increasing reliance on experienced talent for delivery predictability
  • Expanding scope for cloud, data and security teams
  • Growing competition for senior technical roles
  • Shortage of talent with real production experience

Tech talent availability now shapes delivery speed, operational resilience and long term team maturity.

Technical Roles That Shape Delivery Outcomes

We focus on high impact roles that determine how well teams execute.

Backend Developer

Focus: Enhancing service reliability and API performance.
Responsibilities: Own service-level functionality, resolve production issues and support stable releases in collaboration with platform and QA teams.
Skills: Architectural reasoning, data handling judgement, performance awareness, live-system debugging.
Experience: 3 to 6 years.

Frontend Engineer

Focus: Delivering consistent, performant user interfaces.
Responsibilities: Translate product requirements into stable interfaces and maintain experience quality across devices.
Skills: UI judgement, accessibility awareness, performance optimisation, collaboration.
Experience: 2 to 5 years.

Frontend Engineer

Focus: Delivering consistent, performant user interfaces.
Responsibilities: Translate product requirements into stable interfaces and maintain experience quality across devices.
Skills: UI judgement, accessibility awareness, performance optimisation, collaboration.
Experience: 2 to 5 years.

Senior Data Engineer

Focus: Designing scalable data infrastructure.
Responsibilities: Architect pipelines, ensure data quality and enable analytics and AI use cases.
Skills: Data modelling judgement, orchestration, integration thinking.
Experience: 6 to 10 years.

Senior Platform Engineer

Focus: Maintaining systems that support reliability and scale.
Responsibilities: Strengthen foundations, reduce incidents and guide infrastructure best practices.
Skills: Cloud architecture reasoning, observability, systems thinking.
Experience: 7 to 12 years.

Senior Platform Engineer

Focus: Maintaining systems that support reliability and scale.
Responsibilities: Strengthen foundations, reduce incidents and guide infrastructure best practices.
Skills: Cloud architecture reasoning, observability, systems thinking.
Experience: 7 to 12 years.

Head of Engineering

Focus: Technical execution and organisational capability.
Responsibilities: Set engineering direction, manage risk and build teams capable of sustained delivery.
Skills: Technical leadership judgement, organisational design, delivery governance.
Experience: 15+ years.

Chief Technology Officer

Focus: Long-term technology direction.
Responsibilities: Define architectural vision, guide investment and develop leadership capability.
Skills: Strategic systems thinking, architectural judgement, senior talent leadership.
Experience: 20+ years.

A Hiring Process Built for Technical Judgment

A disciplined approach that supports speed without sacrificing depth.

Leadership alignment and outcome clarification

Competency aligned role definitions

Targeted sourcing across senior talent networks

Scenario based technical evaluation

Leadership and collaboration assessment

Offer advisory and structured onboarding planning

Where Hiring Breaks Down And How We Fix It

Common Issues

  • Roles defined around tools instead of capability
  • Assessments misaligned with actual work
  • Slow processes losing strong candidates
  • Overreliance on active applicants only

Our Solutions

  • Capability aligned role design
  • Practical assessments revealing real competence
  • Fast, structured hiring workflows
  • Access to passive senior talent networks

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Testimonials

Leadership Guidance

Common Issues

  • Align roles to capability, not tools
  • Use design sessions for senior hires
  • Benchmark compensation using maturity indicators
  • Support new hires with structured early stage plans

Why Leaders Choose Us

We specialise in strengthening technology teams by securing experienced technical talent. Our approach is grounded in:

  • Clear evidence behind recommendations
  • Access to senior, vetted talent
  • Predictable communication and execution
  • Lower risk on critical hires

FAQs

Through scenario-based discussions grounded in real delivery contexts.

Yes. We prioritise learning ability and judgement over narrow tool experience.

Timelines depend on complexity, but structured evaluation reduces delays.
We assess collaboration style, ownership mindset and alignment with team dynamics.
Yes. We regularly work with hybrid and distributed organisations.
Our focus on capability and evidence reduces hiring risk for leadership teams.
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