Asst. Director for Technical Delivery - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Experis LTD

Experis LTD

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Assistant Director IT for Technical Delivery and Information Security

Birmingham

Education

We have a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to lead a great team through a period of anticipated growth and change.

Our client has ambitious plans to meet the needs of students from across the region and internationally and digital services playa critical role in providing a learning environment for those students to thrive.

We are looking to appoint an Assistant Director IT for Technical Delivery and Information Security whose remit is to provide the information technology systems and services for students and staff.

The person will develop, maintain, support and keep currentthe technical systems in use across the university to support the delivery of the required service levels.

This includes the critical need to identify, monitor and resolve information security risks and issues to maintain the organisations Cyber Essentialscertification.

You will be responsible for the technical implementation and operation of the university's IT, planning system developments and operation over a three to five year cycle.

You will lead and manage a high performing team of developers, engineers and analysts,ensuring skills and experience match the ongoing developments whilst balancing the 60-strong team's focus on multiple projects and day to day delivery.

You will be responsible for recruiting new talent required by the team in an environment where we measure ourselves against the university's equality and diversity strategy.

You will be responsible for the information security of technical systems documenting the level of risk the university is exposed to and ensure there is agreement on the level of risk that is acceptable.

You will work in partnership with leaders across theorganisation to ensure we work together to operate safely and securely.

You will take responsibility for determining and you will also have responsibility for the disaster recovery and business continuity plans for the university's IT systems and safely testtheir good operation at regular intervals.

You will define appropriate out-of-hours support levels and procedures and manage resources to achieve the required service response and you will deliver against the defined incident and service request levels of performance for the IT managed systems.

Youwill also be responsible for effective change management of IT systems and maintain processes to ensure that technical change is undertaken at an appropriate pace without unmanaged risk to the good operation of the organisation.

Relevant postgraduate qualification (or equivalent experience) in technology delivery
Extensive experience of leading large technical teams
Experience in maintaining security accreditations, including Cyber Essentials
Experience in defining and monitoring IT policies
Experience in information management and information security principles
Experience in managing teams operating to an agile development method
Proven track record of project management
Experience in presenting business cases for system investment
Proven leadership and management skills including change management methods to introduce innovation and new processes

During the selection process we will look to understand your experience and competence through a face-to-face interview, a chance to meet with the team and engagement with the peer roles in IT.