Head of Platforms & Operations
Salary: to be discussed
Sunderland - onsite 3x per week
Are you a leader with strong technical knowledge of the design and delivery of core platforms, as well as demonstrable experience managing key internal and external stakeholder relationships? Are you looking for a new opportunity to shape a growing team, challenging them to drive innovation? If so, apply now for this newly created role.
The Head of Platforms & Operations will join a well-established business at a time of transformation, and will be instrumental in building a team that will design, deliver and support core platforms. We're looking for someone who can drive innovation and step outside of the status quo.
Key Responsibilities:
* Strategic leadership - establish and deliver the strategic roadmap for the team, identifying new technologies and ways of working to achieve objectives
* Platform Management - build and operation of core platforms across infrastructure, storage, on-premise and cloud solutions (AWS, Azure), EUC, DevOps
* Solutions Architecture - lead a small team of solutions architects, ensuring frameworks and standards are applied
* Technical Services - lead a team of technical engineers providing engineering services across EUC, data platforms, Network infrastructure, M365, Cloud hosting etc
* Project Management - oversee delivery of key IT initiatives in line with governance standards
* Support - lead a disparate team of field engineers providing hands-on support across various sites
* Change leadership - you will manage a team through a significant period of change, so prior experience of this will be ideal
* Relationship management - you will build and manage effective relationships with internal stakeholders at all levels as well as key external suppliers
Qualifications:
* Proven experience in platform engineering and IT operations
* Demonstrated success in leading teams through change
* Broad knowledge across technologies/practices including: Cloud, EUC, Storage, Collaboration Solutions, Networking, Data Platforms, DevOps, CI/CD and container orchestration
* Exceptional relationship management skills and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
The salary and package on offer is generous and comprehensive. I would be happy to discuss this in more detail with you directly.
If this sounds of interest, please apply today!
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