12 Months Fixed Term
30 Days + 4 Days Christmas Break + 8 Bank Holidays
Excellent Pension Scheme
Hybrid Working – 2 Days Office
Ample Safe & Close Parking
Excellent Public Transport Links Bus & Rail
Lead – Data Integration Services
Supporting a key department within a leading higher education organisation, we are seeking an experienced leader / manager of Data Integration and Solutions Architecture to oversee the daily functions of a Data Integration Services Team.
To design and deliver a robust, performant, and auditable Data Integration Service
Implement a data integration service based on approved department technologies.
Provide leadership to, and management of the Data Integration Service Team.
Provide technical leadership to the team, coaching members when needed.
Ensure that the team works in accordance with the departments ITIL processes including change, incident, service request and problem management.
Monitor and manage the performance of the Data Integration Service, identifying suitable KPIs and opportunities for improvement.
Act as the contact point for Product and Delivery Managers who are customers of the Data Integration Service.
Act as the Technical Authority for development undertaken on the data integration platform.
Provide leadership to, and management of the Data Integration Service Team, ensuring that the
team and third parties perform to a good level, work to accepted quality standards, to common
design patterns and testing practices and are knowledgeable of current relevant legislation.
Lead, develop and maintain a well governed data integration service that follows best practice
methodologies for departments integration platform, ensuring its services are scalable, performant and based on an accurate, complete and well-structured catalogue of integrations that facilitates change management, architecture planning functions, cost optimisation and evidence-based assurance of legal compliance obligations.
Monitor and manage the performance of the Data Integration Service, identifying suitable KPIs to evidence performance and opportunities for improvement such as robustness of integration, speed to develop.
Team and/or service management experience and excellent leadership, team working and mentoring skills.
Experience of budget management and developing cost models as part of the evaluation of alternative options.
A thorough understanding legislation relevant to the processing of data both within and external to a complex organisation.
aligning them with service priorities gathered from customers and other key stakeholders.
A good understanding of the use of data and metrics led service improvement.
Experience of providing technical leadership on major IT projects.
In-depth technical knowledge, to the level of principal expert, in developing data integration services.
The ability to advocate customer service and the ability to empathise strongly with university members, a customer focused approach to service delivery.
Experience of working in an ITIL managed environment.
Good exposure of API Management, Logic App's, Azure Integration Services