Role: Head of Technology Operations
Salary: Salary dependant on skills and experience
Hours: Minimum 35 hours per week.
Location: Across both the American Express Stadium, Brighton and American Express Elite Football Performance Centre, Lancing
Contract Type: Permanent
Deadline Day: 28th May 2025
About Brighton & Hove Albion FC
We compete at the highest levels of football on a global stage while embracing our Sussex community spirit. At the heart of everything we do is our commitment to high performance, professional excellence, and making a positive impact.
A brand-new role within a brand-new team!
As Head of Technology Operations, you will be responsible for helping deliver the club’s technology strategy, ensuring robust technology operations, and leading a high-performing team that guarantees all systems and data are secure, reliable, efficient, and support the club’s performance on and off the pitch.
This role requires a deeply technical, hands-on leader who can operate across strategic delivery, operational service management, incident resolution, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring that technology underpins excellence in all club activities. You will equally be a hands-on leader, deeply involved in the both the technology strategy and the actual delivery.
What we are looking for
You will have demonstrated experience in a technology leadership role, with substantial responsibility for technology operations, infrastructure, and service management. You should possess deep technical expertise across various technology systems and have a strong background in IT service delivery.
This role is office based – please be aware of this before submitting your application.
Our values are essential to our success
Our values serve as guiding principles for how we connect with one another, our fans, partners and sponsors. As a club, we embody these values in everything we do:
- Treat People Well
- Exceed Expectations
- Aim High. Never Give Up
- Act with Integrity
- Make it Special
How we say thank you
In appreciation for your hard work and dedication, we are pleased to offer you a range of additional benefits, including but not limited to:
- Complimentary breakfast and lunch at both sites
- 23 days holiday rising with length of service (pro rata for part time staff)
- Rewards platform, which includes access to 900+ retailers, a wellbeing centre and more!
- Enhanced family policies
- Access to a gym and padel court at our training ground
- Priority access to match tickets and access to free WSL tickets for 2025/26 season
- In-house training programme and CPD opportunities
- Exclusive discounts and benefits from our partners and local businesses
Our commitment to EDI
We take pride in being an equal opportunity workplace that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Our core values foster a strong ethical culture, enabling us to meet the needs of our diverse audience, both on and off the pitch. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage or civil partnership. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application, please get in contact.
Safeguarding is part of everything we do
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk. We expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.
This position is UK-based and requires proof of the right to live and work in the UK. All job offers are conditional upon background checks, including a full 3-year reference history, DBS checks, and verification of your eligibility to work. Please note, we do not sponsor applicants without the right to work in the UK