Head of Strategy and Architecture

4 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.

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