Director of Platform

4 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Royal Mail Group Full time

Job Reference: 321956
Position: Director of Platform
Salary: Competitive salary plus car allowance, healthcare annual bonus potential, 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with service and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Type: Permanent, Full time
Location: 185 Farringdon Road, 3 x days a week In Farringdon Office.

Benefits:

  • Family friendly support: Enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave.
  • Discounts and offers: More than 800 offers to help you save on groceries, days out, holidays and household bills.
  • Supportive and generous company sick pay.
  • Your Wellbeing: 24/7 access to services and tools for physical and mental health, financial and social support. It’s free, and it’s for everyone.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Accountable for the successful delivery of key strategic platforms across the Royal Mail estate. Translate business strategy and demand into initiatives and roadmaps to deliver business value, and communicate to RM stakeholders.

Manage delivery partners for the strategic platforms, ensuring quality of delivery and stable releases of change. Ensure that critical systems are performant and available, providing 3rd line support to critical incidents.

Champion agile ways of working, building strong internal capability and ensuring that multiple external delivery partners deliver to consistent ways of working to achieve stable delivery and change.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Own and lead delivery of the core strategic platforms – currently PDA, eBiz (website), BIG (integration) and EPS (events).
  • Lead and develop a team of platform owners, supporting them and ensuring effective delivery of platform development and change activities across all RM platforms.
  • Prioritise Technology Platform initiatives and funding based on strategic impact analysis and resource availability.
  • Ensure RM are not reliant on single individuals' knowledge, with adequate succession plans in place.
  • Deliver high-quality, timely outputs and inputs into cross-tech reporting and governance processes, including financial and capacity planning.
  • Own platform team funding allocated in ABRs, achieving value for money and significant ROI across all Platforms.
  • Advise RM TEC executive team on strategic roadmap and technical decisions as a functional expert.
  • Collaborate with Build, Business Services, and other Tech Platforms to ensure cross-Tech Platforms and EP architectural excellence.
  • Partner with Cyber/Run to manage persistently funded teams and continuously optimise their capacity, utilisation and effectiveness.

Next Steps:

The next stage of the selection process will be a face-to-face/virtual interview consisting of competency-based and role-specific questions.

We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.

Royal Mail is proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

Closing Date: Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

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