Senior Director, Data Management

6 days ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Escode, Part of NCC Group Full time

Role: IT Director Location: Manchester – hybrid, 2 days a week in the office

Escode, a global leader in software escrow solutions and part of NCC Group, is dedicated to protecting businesses from unforeseen disruptions. We ensure that business-critical software applications and source code are safe, secure, and always available. As a trusted intermediary for some of the world’s best-known brands, we safeguard access to vital code and digital assets, ensuring business continuity and the protection of software investments.

With over 40 years of experience, Escode pioneered the software escrow category in 1988, recognizing the growing technology dependence of businesses and the need for a safety mechanism. Reporting to the Group CIO, the IT Director, will lead the technology vision, strategy, and development for the Escode business driving innovation and growth.

You will be responsible for leading our technology team driving continual good practice across all areas of our technical delivery during a time of considerable change and technology consolidation.

Drive in the changes required to support the consolidation process in terms of systems, data, process and people.

Lead the Escode technology team to deliver the services required by the business to operate.
Provide the technical vision and strategy for the business, aligning it with the overall business objectives.
Develop an achievable and realistic technology roadmap, ensuring that tech architecture supports the business priorities.
Transformation of technology and digital services and building new services that are required by a stand-alone business.
Working closely with teams across the business and group IT – ensuring an open, cohesive, and collaborative approach is maintained.
Implementing and managing effective change and release management and information and security processes and procedures
Project and programme management of complex, interdependent activities and technologies, with hybrid resources (outsourced, internal, contract, partners).
Accountable for the business information, data and reporting to serve the business requirements.
Responsible for IT Security & IT risk management in line with regional best practices and local regulations
Accountable for ensuring compliance of IT systems, processes and policies with regional, statutory and regulatory requirements.
Negotiating all IT supplier contracts and ensuring that the group receives appropriate levels of service and maximum value.
Working closely with other IT and business leadership and resources outside the direct business collaboratively to achieve successful outcomes.

Previous experience of being in a leadership role within a technology function that delivers complex digital and technology services to a global business.
Proven experience leading a multi-disciplinary IT function or similar senior leadership role.
The ability to develop and deliver a technology strategy that aligns with a business strategy.
Understand core IT policies, standards and processes and their importance in delivering a good service to the business.
Demonstrable understanding of budgets and business-planning
Working knowledge of GDPR and an appreciation for data governance standards, controls and requirements and how they are factored into design activity.

We are passionate about helping our customers to protect their brand, value and reputation against the ever-evolving threat landscape. Our values and code of ethics are at the heart of how we operate – we work together, we are brilliantly creative and we embrace difference. We want to create an environment where all colleagues feel psychologically, emotionally and physically safe to be authentic, sharing their personal experiences to represent the diversity of the world they live in, and have equal opportunity to achieve their best.

If you don’t hear back from us within 10 days, please don’t be too disappointed – we may keep your CV on our database for any future vacancies and we would encourage you to keep an eye on our career opportunities as there may be other suitable roles.

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