Overview
Join us at EIT: At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas:
Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology
Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture
Climate Change & Managing CO₂
Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
This is ambitious work – work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you'll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real‑world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org.
Your Role
EIT is seeking a strategic and hands‑on Head of Application Integration Services (AIS), to shape and deliver the enterprise application and integration landscape at EIT. This is a senior leadership role with accountability for the strategy, prioritisation, design, and delivery of business‑critical systems, supporting central operations such as Finance, HR, Supply Chain, and Facilities, and enabling EIT's growth beyond the scale‑up phase to an organisation of 5,000+ employees. With a strong emphasis on Oracle‑first, cloud‑native platforms, you will lead a blended function of internal teams and Tier‑1 system integrators, ensuring that applications and data platforms are secure, scalable, interoperable, and fit for the future.
Strategic Leadership & Governance
Define and execute the AIS strategy, roadmap, and delivery priorities
Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of Systems and Functional Leads, providing mentorship, training, and clear direction
Establish and continuously improve frameworks, policies, and governance for application development and integration
Set standards for API management, data integration, and interoperability
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
Partner closely with business, IT, and research leaders to capture requirements and shape solutions
Support senior leadership in evaluating, selecting, and implementing enterprise systems aligned to organisational need
Lead effective programme governance, reporting, and communication across stakeholders and delivery partners
Technical Architecture & Delivery
Oversee the design and delivery of cloud‑native application architectures within an Oracle‑first ecosystem
Ensure robust integration across ERP, CRM, PLM, core data platforms, and specialist applications
Provide clear technical direction while enabling teams to deliver effectively
Operational Excellence & Risk Management
Ensure high availability, performance, and security of live integration services
Lead a strong "in‑life" support and continuous improvement model
Identify and mitigate risks relating to data integrity, system performance, and regulatory compliance
Requirements
Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience
Demonstrable experience successfully leading application integration initiatives within an enterprise environment
Exceptional people leadership skills, with experience developing and scaling delivery teams
Strong experience managing complex product and system backlogs across multiple business domains
Demonstrated success delivering against structured delivery lifecycles and governance frameworks
Experience with leading cloud‑based enterprise platforms (e.g. Oracle Fusion, OCI, Salesforce, Atlassian)
Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and leadership skills
Desirable Skills, Qualifications & Experience
Deep experience with Oracle cloud‑based solutions (Fusion, Analytics Data Platform, Supply Chain, Oracle Integration Cloud, etc.)
Experience within research and innovation environments
Scale‑up experience – building teams that take organisations to the next level
An understanding of data governance, security protocols, and regulatory compliance within a scientific environment
Role specific qualifications (e.g. SAFe, TOGAF, PMP, ITIL, etc.)
Benefits
Salary: Dependent on experience + Travel allowance + bonus
Once onboarded, you can enjoy and opt into the following benefits:
Enhanced holiday pay
Pension
Life Assurance
Income Protection
Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan
Employee discounts
Electric car scheme
Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme
Cycle to Work Scheme
Family Planning
Neurodiversity support including advice and assessments
Coaching & Therapy services
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