Overview In this IT leadership role, you will steer the design, delivery and embedding of secure, scalable technology across the business to support operations and future innovation. You’ll influence architectural direction, manage third-party suppliers, and ensure high availability and strong security within a resilient IT environment. The role sits at the heart of IT, collaborating with stakeholders and mentoring the team to raise capability and reduce risk. You will help modernise IT services and maximise value from technology investments, in a highly collaborative, multi-partner setting.
Pay / Benefits - Annual Leave: 25 days + bank holidays
- Pension Plan: contributory, matched up to 6%
- Insurance: life assurance and personal accident
- Employee Benefits Portal: private medical, private dental, gym discounts, shopping discounts
- Reward and Recognition
- confidential career discussion
Responsibilities - Design and deliver secure, scalable IT solutions aligned to business needs
- Influence technical direction and challenge vendors from architecture to delivery
- Oversee connectivity, cloud services, incident and change management for high availability
- Manage third-party suppliers to meet contracts and best practices
- Maintain a resilient, high-performing IT environment and drive continuous improvement
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to the IT team
Key requirements - Strong blend of technical expertise, delivery experience and stakeholder engagement
- Solid background across infrastructure, platforms and security
- Proven IT project delivery experience and adoption of new technologies
- Excellent communication and influencing skills to guide decision-making
- Experience managing third-party suppliers and contracts
- Ability to operate in dynamic environments, plan effectively, and anticipate risks
- Mentorship ability and contribution to team capability and resilience
- communication
- influence
- leadership
- infrastructure
- platforms
- security
