Head of Strategy and Architecture

2 weeks ago

Leicester, United Kingdom University of Leicester Full time

About the role

An exciting opportunity for a Head of Strategy and Architecture to join The University of Leicester and the Digital Services team to play a lead role on delivering the exciting and ambitious Digital Masterplan.

This role will lead the development of the Digital Masterplan, using architecture capabilities to support, guide, shape and ultimately implement solutions that deliver the Digital and University Strategies.

You will lead the Digital Services architecture function, which drives the creation and management of coherent roadmaps for every layer of our technology stack, owns our architecture assurance and governance processes, and plays a key role in ensuring that our solutions and services are aligned to support the needs of the wider overall operating model for Digital Services ensuring that the operational architecture is robust, secure, trusted , that access to information is controlled and that appropriate management metrics are available.

Responsible for the strategy and architecture team which is made up of Business Analyst's, Solutions Architects and Cloud Architect you will own, develop and champion the architecture function on an ongoing basis, ensuring it is dynamic and continually optimised to deliver agile, cost-effective, robust and scalable information systems closely aligned to the University’s Strategy and requirements.

About you

We are seeking someone who possesses broad knowledge and experience of all layers of the modern IT technology stack, including hardware, operating systems, network, application frameworks, database systems, vendor solutions, and industry trends. The ideal candidate should have significant experience of Agile methods, including architecting for Agility, and have management experience of highly technical systems specialists and solutions architects. This experience will ideally come from previous roles as a solutions architect or in a similar capacity, responsible for architecting, designing and planning IT services in a medium/large organisation, supported by a relevant degree.

Additional information

For more information or an informal discussion please get in touch Alison Phillips, Director of Digital Services, at alison.phillips@leicester.ac.uk . Alison will be unavailable for enquiries between 19th April - 5th May due to overseas travel.

We anticipate that interviews will be held mid-late May 2024.

The University of Leicester has been changing the world, and changing people’s lives, for 100 years. When you join us, you’ll become part of a community of Citizens of Change , which includes not only our staff and our current students but also thousands of Leicester graduates around the world.

As a diverse and forward-thinking employer, we embed the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion into everything we do. That includes not just our core missions of teaching and research, but also our support for staff, students and our local communitythrough our values of Inspiring, Impactful and Inclusive.

We’re committed to the wellbeing of all our staff and to the sustainability of our environment, on our campus and beyond. We offer a competitive salary package, excellent pension scheme and a generous annual leave allowance, along with opportunities to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Vacancy terms

Full time or job share considered, Permanent #J-18808-Ljbffr

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