IT Service Integration Lead - Wrexham, United Kingdom - Chetwood Financial Limited

Chetwood Financial Limited

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Wrexham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About Chetwood Financial Bank:

We are a digital, forward thinking fintech Bank using the best technology to help make our customers financially better off.

We focus on creating distinctive and disruptive financial products for underserved segments of the market. We are experts within the intermediary market specialising in Loans and Savings as well as buy to let mortgages. Our tech platform is designed to make buy to let mortgages smarter, faster and simpler for brokers and landlords.

We have secured strategic investment from Elliott Advisors of over £150mil of capital, underpinning the planned growth of the business over the next few years.

Role Purpose

Purpose of the role is to lead the IT Management and integration planning of the assigned area, ensuring IT infrastructure (Network, Servers, Telephony etc), Service Management, and platform support operate effectively.

Conduct necessary IT & Security assessments (in collaboration with the InfoSec team), gap analysis, and develop mitigation plans.

Create, coordinate, plan, and actively participate in the IT integration plans to merge and migrate the assigned area's IT capabilities into a sustainable long-term Chetwood supported model.

Ensure the projects run on sound project principles, managing, and monitoring the schedule, scope and quality.

Risks, actions, assumptions, issues, and decisions will be managed and controlled to ensure delivery of the projects to meet the defined business objectives.

As a critical member of the service management team; they will improve our visibility and governance of the assigned area, its vendors, and team.

Ensure critical services are running effectively with appropriate contractual controls to enforce where necessary.

IT Management & Integration

Identify and provide, where not fulfilled by 3rd parties and other teams, all 1st/2nd/3rd line support services.
In collaboration with all stakeholders, develop and drive systems integration roadmap.
Build & maintain partnerships within the business area assigned.
Support integration projects as needed throughout their development lifecycle.
Ensure all interfaces and technical dependencies are identified, documented, and maintained to a high standard.

Project Management

End to end project management from planning through to mobilisation and delivery.
Coordinating and managing teams that deliver the required outcomes.
Identify requirements of the stakeholders, scoping projects, producing detailed plans, providing management information, as defined by the key stakeholders, and reporting the status to senior stakeholders.
Monitor costs, timescales and resources used, and acts where these deviate from agreed tolerances.
Proactively & dynamically managing project plans, calling out dependencies, resources and other risks and suggesting mitigation.

Stakeholder Management

Ensure all stakeholders (internal and external) understand their role and responsibilities and ensure they are held accountable for delivery.
Influences program sponsors to make the appropriate decisions and modifications in response to external influences on the program.
Supplier / Partner engagement and management where required.

Experience & Qualifications

Degree/Advanced degree and/or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
Demonstrable track record of delivering in a range of complex IT Change, Regulatory and Business Change projects.
Experience of managing and motivating a team to support timely delivery to meet Business objectives.
Principal operations of a project management office including reporting and RAID management.
Agile delivery methods and practices would be desirable.
Experience of engaging / managing and executing delivery with existing or new partners / suppliers.
Handson technical experience of migration, transformation, and support of IT Services.
Experience with technical involved mergers and acquisitions.
Minimum 3 years relevant experience

Chetwood Benefits:

Competitive salary
25 days holiday PLUS your BIRTHDAY off
Pension contribution with Royal London
Life Assurance
Private medical, dental and optical health insurance with Axa

Hybrid working

Wrexham or Central London
Free breakfast available

Data Protection

We anticipate that we will retain your data as part of the recruitment process for no longer than is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected unless we have sought your consent to keep your data for future suitable job vacancies.

Chetwood Financial Ltd does not accept speculative or unsolicited CVs from Recruitment Agencies.

Any unsolicited CVs received will be treated as the property of Chetwood Financial and Terms & Conditions associated with the use of such CVs will be considered null and void.