Head of Platform Delivery

4 weeks ago


Aberdeen, United Kingdom activpayroll Full time

**Description**:
At activpayroll, our success is your success. With a passion for growth and innovation stemmed from our entrepreneurial roots, we have ambitious plans for the future. We have a stacked pipeline of new business, we keep our eyes on the market for new opportunities and we have the agility and determination to really make things happen.

The Head of Platform Delivery is a key role that is part of the Technology management team here at activpayroll, responsible for setting a strategy for the Platform Engineering team and helping to implement it. Working with the other functions within the technology team, you will ensure the continuous delivery of technology solutions within the organisation across the core hybrid-cloud platform.

**On a typical day...**:

- You'll lead, coach and mentor the platform team
- Developing, owning and delivering the technology roadmap
- You'll be working closely with the Technology Management Team to develop the business strategy and communicate as a collective to our stakeholders
- Be the lead knowledge transfer and implement continuous improvement initiatives
- Respond swiftly to new and emerging security threats and vulnerabilities
- You'll stay on top of technical developments of operational importance to the organisation and identify best practice technologies
- You'll plan, own and manage the delivery of quarterly OKRs
- You'll be responsible for the delivery of the Platform Support service, ensuring that incidents, problems and service requests meet SLAs

**Does this sound like you?**:

- You're a technical expert with experience in a technology management role
- You are highly adaptable and have excellent problem solving skills
- Experienced with the management and orchestration of on-premise, hybrid and private/public cloud environments
- You have familiarity with the following technologies: Servers (especially Windows), Virtualisation Platforms (eg Nutanix), Networking components (firewall, VPN Concentrator etc), Cloud Platforms (eg Azure) & Integration (SFTP, APIs etc)
- You have fantastic communication and customer service skills

**About activpayroll**:
From our entrepreneurial origins as a founder led start up, to a high performing global player working with some of the world's most recognisable brands, activpayroll has both a fantastic history and masses of future potential.

Our story began in 2001, when our founder and former CEO saw a gap in the market to support the oil and gas industry. Today, we are a leading global professional service organisation, providing integrated global and domestic payroll solutions, expatriate taxation services, global HR services and online HR people management tools to over 1,200 companies in more than 150 countries worldwide.

Creating a fair, inclusive, high-performance team is central to our ethos, and we are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion in everything we do. We know that our business needs to be truly reflective of our communities, and we work hard and with intention to deliver that.


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