Head of Technology

About African Safari Group African Safari Group is a luxury inbound safari travel company, connecting high-net-worth clients form the UK, EU, USA, Australia and New Zealand with world-class safari experiences across South, Southern and Eastern Africa. We operate a custom-built CRM (Blaze), a suite of high-traffic destination websites, and an active AI and automation development programme. Technology is central to our growth strategy - we're building net generation booking infrastructure, AI agents, and data platforms that will shape how luxury travel is sold in Africa. The Role This is a rate dual-mandate role. You will lead out technology function - setting direction, making architecture decisions, an managing vendors and partners, while also being hands-on in the work. With a lean team of two today, you can't just direct: you need to build, troubleshoot, solve problems and ship alongside your team. You'll own everything from our custom CRM and server infrastructure to our AI and data projects. You'll be the person the CEO turns to when a new platform initiative needs scoping, a production issue needs diagnosing, or a technology investment needs a recommendation. What you'll own Blaze CRM - our custom built .Net/SQL CRM used by 100+ staff daily. Own its architecture, stability, enhancements and long-term roadmap. Websites & servers - 20+ WordPress sites across multiple cloud servers (Cloudways, DigitalOcean and Linode). Own performance, uptime, infrastructure and security. AI & Automation - lead active projects involving AI agents, data extraction, crawling and workflow automation using technologies such as OpenClaw, Claude and Python. Rates & booking engine - oversee our PostgreSQL-backend rates extraction and quoting platform currently in active development. Technology governance - establish standards across Node.js, PHP, Python, PostgreSQL, Cloudflare, Cady, systemd and related technologies, and ensure they are consistently applied. Team leadership - manage, men