To support the Chief Information Security Officer in managing and reporting the Information Security Risks faced by Technology Services (TS) in delivering AJ Bell's systems and services. This role is responsible for facilitating the secure delivery of AJ Bell's technology and business change. The Information Security Architect will play a lead role in designing and implementing security controls and processes. Key to this is assisting and supporting our colleagues in achieving their goals, but in a secure manner. Technical Skills: Demonstrable experience of implementing enterprise security platforms Previous experience of delivering and maintaining of technical enterprise security solutions for (but not limited to) the following areas: End Point Protection, Cloud Security, Network Security, DevOps, Security Monitoring & Remediation is advantageous. Knowledge of Secure Software Development Life Cycle best practices Strong understanding and knowledge of Information Security risk management tools and techniques Experience of security governance and compliance, ideally gained in financial services organisations Demonstrable understanding of Information Security control standards and frameworks e.g. ISO27001, NIST, PCI DSS Awareness and understanding of the Information Security threat landscape Deep understanding of Information Security solutions and controls Experience of Cloud security solutions and standards is highly advantageous Competence, knowledge, and skills Competence Experience working within recognised Information Security frameworks and best practices such as ISO27001, NIST etc. 5 years' experience in an Information Security role gained in a financial services or e-commerce environment is preferred Knowledge & Skills Excellent communicator, able to translate complex topics to all areas of the business Significant experience in the area of Information security Strong knowledge of core IT and networking concepts Well versed in IT security capabilities, framework and concepts Strong ownership of tasks, attention to detail and following through to conclusion Ability to challenge approach, strategy and implementation to ensure Information Security is consistently considered and improved Ability to work under own initiative to plan and communicate effectively with colleagues and customers Structured, self-starting, flexible and enjoy working in fast-paced environments Effective communication skills, both written and verbal Ability to plan, organise and follow through on assigned tasks and complete with little or no prompting from management Excellent attention to detail Attained CISSP or similar certification About us: AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 620,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £96.1 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures. Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company. Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,500 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For' for six consecutive years and in 2025 named a Great Place to Work. At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we have a great sense of pride in what we do, and this is reflected in our guiding principles. Our perks and benefits: Starting holiday entitlement of 26 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service and a holiday buy and sell scheme A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 6% Discretionary bonus scheme Annual free share awards scheme Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme Health Cash Plan - provided by SimplyHealth Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan Free on-site gym providing a wide range of free classes Employee Assistance Programme Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave Loans for travel season tickets Death in service scheme Paid time off for volunteer work Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice Calendar of social events, including an annual Christmas party, summer party and much more Parking at Exchange Quay (Subject to availability) Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops Ongoing technical training Professional qualification support Talent development programmes Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches Casual dress code Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals Hybrid working: At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you'll spend a minimum of 50% of the month in the office. For new team members, the first 3 months will be spent full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues. AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need. If you like the sound of the above, or just want to know more about the company and the role, we'd love to speak to you.
09/09/2025
Full time
To support the Chief Information Security Officer in managing and reporting the Information Security Risks faced by Technology Services (TS) in delivering AJ Bell's systems and services. This role is responsible for facilitating the secure delivery of AJ Bell's technology and business change. The Information Security Architect will play a lead role in designing and implementing security controls and processes. Key to this is assisting and supporting our colleagues in achieving their goals, but in a secure manner. Technical Skills: Demonstrable experience of implementing enterprise security platforms Previous experience of delivering and maintaining of technical enterprise security solutions for (but not limited to) the following areas: End Point Protection, Cloud Security, Network Security, DevOps, Security Monitoring & Remediation is advantageous. Knowledge of Secure Software Development Life Cycle best practices Strong understanding and knowledge of Information Security risk management tools and techniques Experience of security governance and compliance, ideally gained in financial services organisations Demonstrable understanding of Information Security control standards and frameworks e.g. ISO27001, NIST, PCI DSS Awareness and understanding of the Information Security threat landscape Deep understanding of Information Security solutions and controls Experience of Cloud security solutions and standards is highly advantageous Competence, knowledge, and skills Competence Experience working within recognised Information Security frameworks and best practices such as ISO27001, NIST etc. 5 years' experience in an Information Security role gained in a financial services or e-commerce environment is preferred Knowledge & Skills Excellent communicator, able to translate complex topics to all areas of the business Significant experience in the area of Information security Strong knowledge of core IT and networking concepts Well versed in IT security capabilities, framework and concepts Strong ownership of tasks, attention to detail and following through to conclusion Ability to challenge approach, strategy and implementation to ensure Information Security is consistently considered and improved Ability to work under own initiative to plan and communicate effectively with colleagues and customers Structured, self-starting, flexible and enjoy working in fast-paced environments Effective communication skills, both written and verbal Ability to plan, organise and follow through on assigned tasks and complete with little or no prompting from management Excellent attention to detail Attained CISSP or similar certification About us: AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 620,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £96.1 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures. Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company. Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,500 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For' for six consecutive years and in 2025 named a Great Place to Work. At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we have a great sense of pride in what we do, and this is reflected in our guiding principles. Our perks and benefits: Starting holiday entitlement of 26 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service and a holiday buy and sell scheme A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 6% Discretionary bonus scheme Annual free share awards scheme Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme Health Cash Plan - provided by SimplyHealth Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan Free on-site gym providing a wide range of free classes Employee Assistance Programme Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave Loans for travel season tickets Death in service scheme Paid time off for volunteer work Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice Calendar of social events, including an annual Christmas party, summer party and much more Parking at Exchange Quay (Subject to availability) Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops Ongoing technical training Professional qualification support Talent development programmes Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches Casual dress code Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals Hybrid working: At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you'll spend a minimum of 50% of the month in the office. For new team members, the first 3 months will be spent full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues. AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need. If you like the sound of the above, or just want to know more about the company and the role, we'd love to speak to you.
Welcome to ASK BOSCO , thanks for stopping by Let s pause for a second. Before we talk perks, equity, or growth stats, let s flip the script. This isn t about us. Not yet. This is about you: • What s driving your search right now, what s prompting you to take the next big step in your career? • Are you looking for a role where you can lead a high-performing team, shape how technology is applied, and make a direct impact on growth and customer success? • Do you want to work in a fast-paced, idea driven environment where your voice matters, but delivery, stability, and scalability always come first? Hold onto those thoughts. Now let us introduce you to something special, a chance to join us as VP of Engineering at ASK BOSCO as we build the foundations for our next phase of hyper-growth. By the end, if it doesn t feel like the right fit, no worries. But if you feel that spark, the same one we ve got, this could be the start of something extraordinary. The Role at a Glance: VP of Engineering Hybrid Leeds HQ, 2 Days per Week £120,000 + Equity Potential Plus Benefits: 4-day week, 23 days annual leave + bank holidays, health insurance, retail & leisure perks, electric car scheme Values & Culture: Outstanding Company to Work For 2024 Company: AI-powered marketing analytics platform Pedigree: Visionary Founder. Backed by renowned tech entrepreneurs, including co-founder of SkyScanner. Profits with Purpose 10% of profits donated to 1moreChild orphanage annually Markets: Marketing & eCommerce Agencies, eCommerce retailers Your Expertise: You re a proven engineering leader with deep experience in building, scaling, and managing cross-functional tech teams: data engineers, data scientists, data analysts, and developers. You ve led teams through transformational growth, delivering stable, scalable SaaS products that retain and delight customers. You understand what it takes to grow a business from early-stage traction to a large-scale, enterprise-grade platform, and you re ready to lay the technical foundations for our next phase of hyper-growth. You also bring strong experience managing infrastructure partners, confidently navigating and shaping these critical relationships. This isn t a back-seat role. You ll be hands-on where it counts, partnering with the Chief Product Officer to drive delivery, scalability, and long-term success. You ll guide senior stakeholders with clear, data-driven insights, helping keep the roadmap on track in a fast-moving, idea-driven environment. What You ll Be Driving: • Drive technical execution: Deliver and enhance our architecture, infrastructure, and product roadmap to ensure scalable growth and high-performing solutions. • Lead the team: Mentor and grow data engineers, scientists, analysts, and developers to deliver a high-performing, collaborative culture. • Ensure delivery & stability: Make sure features are delivered on time, scalable, and reliable, supporting long-term customer retention. • Manage key relationships: Own the infrastructure partner relationship to guarantee uptime, performance, and security. • Partner with the Chief Product Officer: Align on roadmap priorities, balancing strategic vision with day-to-day execution. • Drive enterprise-grade excellence: Embed best-in-class engineering practices agile, CI/CD, DevOps, security-first design across teams. • Champion scalability: Build products and systems that can grow globally and support tens of thousands of customers. What You ll Bring: • Experience as VP of Engineering, CTO, or senior technical leader in a high-growth or Series A-stage company. • Proven ability to scale cross-functional teams: data engineering, data science, analytics, and development. • Hands-on experience delivering stable, scalable SaaS products with measurable customer impact. • Experience managing infrastructure partners and external technical relationships. • Confident and polite stakeholder management, able to challenge senior leaders while keeping delivery on track. • Track record of leading transformational growth, scaling teams and products successfully. • Excellent communication - bridging tech, product, and commercial discussions seamlessly. • Customer-first mindset - building products that retain and delight users. This is a role for someone who s been there, done it, and is ready to do it again with more ownership, autonomy, and impact than ever before in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. Inclusive Culture At ASK BOSCO , everybody is invited with open arms. We embrace diversity in all forms race, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, and beyond. Our mission is stronger when everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. Can you see yourself building the tech engine that drives our next phase of hyper-growth? If high-impact, high-growth, and hands-on leadership excites you, let s make it happen. Apply now and let s talk. P.S. Did we have you at the four-day week? Application notice We take your privacy seriously. As you might expect you may be contacted by email, text or telephone. Your data is processed by our talent partner RR (Recruitment Revolution) on the basis of their legitimate interests in fulfilling the recruitment process. Please refer to their Data Privacy Policy & Notice on their website for further details.
09/09/2025
Full time
Welcome to ASK BOSCO , thanks for stopping by Let s pause for a second. Before we talk perks, equity, or growth stats, let s flip the script. This isn t about us. Not yet. This is about you: • What s driving your search right now, what s prompting you to take the next big step in your career? • Are you looking for a role where you can lead a high-performing team, shape how technology is applied, and make a direct impact on growth and customer success? • Do you want to work in a fast-paced, idea driven environment where your voice matters, but delivery, stability, and scalability always come first? Hold onto those thoughts. Now let us introduce you to something special, a chance to join us as VP of Engineering at ASK BOSCO as we build the foundations for our next phase of hyper-growth. By the end, if it doesn t feel like the right fit, no worries. But if you feel that spark, the same one we ve got, this could be the start of something extraordinary. The Role at a Glance: VP of Engineering Hybrid Leeds HQ, 2 Days per Week £120,000 + Equity Potential Plus Benefits: 4-day week, 23 days annual leave + bank holidays, health insurance, retail & leisure perks, electric car scheme Values & Culture: Outstanding Company to Work For 2024 Company: AI-powered marketing analytics platform Pedigree: Visionary Founder. Backed by renowned tech entrepreneurs, including co-founder of SkyScanner. Profits with Purpose 10% of profits donated to 1moreChild orphanage annually Markets: Marketing & eCommerce Agencies, eCommerce retailers Your Expertise: You re a proven engineering leader with deep experience in building, scaling, and managing cross-functional tech teams: data engineers, data scientists, data analysts, and developers. You ve led teams through transformational growth, delivering stable, scalable SaaS products that retain and delight customers. You understand what it takes to grow a business from early-stage traction to a large-scale, enterprise-grade platform, and you re ready to lay the technical foundations for our next phase of hyper-growth. You also bring strong experience managing infrastructure partners, confidently navigating and shaping these critical relationships. This isn t a back-seat role. You ll be hands-on where it counts, partnering with the Chief Product Officer to drive delivery, scalability, and long-term success. You ll guide senior stakeholders with clear, data-driven insights, helping keep the roadmap on track in a fast-moving, idea-driven environment. What You ll Be Driving: • Drive technical execution: Deliver and enhance our architecture, infrastructure, and product roadmap to ensure scalable growth and high-performing solutions. • Lead the team: Mentor and grow data engineers, scientists, analysts, and developers to deliver a high-performing, collaborative culture. • Ensure delivery & stability: Make sure features are delivered on time, scalable, and reliable, supporting long-term customer retention. • Manage key relationships: Own the infrastructure partner relationship to guarantee uptime, performance, and security. • Partner with the Chief Product Officer: Align on roadmap priorities, balancing strategic vision with day-to-day execution. • Drive enterprise-grade excellence: Embed best-in-class engineering practices agile, CI/CD, DevOps, security-first design across teams. • Champion scalability: Build products and systems that can grow globally and support tens of thousands of customers. What You ll Bring: • Experience as VP of Engineering, CTO, or senior technical leader in a high-growth or Series A-stage company. • Proven ability to scale cross-functional teams: data engineering, data science, analytics, and development. • Hands-on experience delivering stable, scalable SaaS products with measurable customer impact. • Experience managing infrastructure partners and external technical relationships. • Confident and polite stakeholder management, able to challenge senior leaders while keeping delivery on track. • Track record of leading transformational growth, scaling teams and products successfully. • Excellent communication - bridging tech, product, and commercial discussions seamlessly. • Customer-first mindset - building products that retain and delight users. This is a role for someone who s been there, done it, and is ready to do it again with more ownership, autonomy, and impact than ever before in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. Inclusive Culture At ASK BOSCO , everybody is invited with open arms. We embrace diversity in all forms race, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, and beyond. Our mission is stronger when everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. Can you see yourself building the tech engine that drives our next phase of hyper-growth? If high-impact, high-growth, and hands-on leadership excites you, let s make it happen. Apply now and let s talk. P.S. Did we have you at the four-day week? Application notice We take your privacy seriously. As you might expect you may be contacted by email, text or telephone. Your data is processed by our talent partner RR (Recruitment Revolution) on the basis of their legitimate interests in fulfilling the recruitment process. Please refer to their Data Privacy Policy & Notice on their website for further details.
About Team: The Digital Directorate delivers cross-cutting digital components and services which support delivery across CDP. This aims to achieve a shared vision of a modern, digital and collaborative organisation. Reporting to: Chief Digital Officer Purpose of Role: A newly created role, the Head of Architecture is responsible for technology enterprise and solution architecture, defining the vision and helping steer the technology roadmap across the organisation to ensure that our systems are designed and implemented in a way that meets the needs of our business. Accountabilities: Lead the enterprise, solution, data, and infrastructure architecture practice across CDP, introducing required patterns, standards, methodologies, and artefacts to deliver scalable technology solutions adhering to best-practice architectural principles Direct Reports and Main Stakeholders (internal and external): Directors, Senior Managers, Members, external bodies and partners, to build effective relationships, represent the service, and to provide expert advice and guidance on sensitive and highly complex issues. Ability to deal with confidential, challenging and highly sensitive issues / situations, which involve significant negotiation, persuasion and influencing skills. Manage relationships with customers / delivery partners / contractors. Deal with people at all levels confidently, sensitively and diplomatically. Interaction with others and the ability to successfully influence, negotiate and motivate are fundamental to the role. The ability to set and create the right working climate is critical to the success of the role. Consult with stakeholders to identify requirements. Lead partnership working with internal and external services / organisations. Chair internal / external working groups. Influence their decisions. Collaborate with the CDO and Head of Engineering to define the overall technology strategy Lead and manage a small team of solution architects. Budget Responsibilities: Own architecture budget, incl. resource allocation, tools, technologies(c. £3 million) Examples of Tasks /Activities associated with the Role: Responsible for the creation, maintenance and management of the enterprise technology landscape, North Star vision, and technology roadmap that is consistent and aligned with business needs and technology strategies Lead and manage a small team of solution architects in co-creation of solution blueprints and detailed designs (incl. technology selection and integration approach) aligned to architectural guiding principles, tech roadmap, business requirements Define, maintain, and ensure adherence to architecture principles, standards, patterns Govern and lead the Technical Design Authority to review and make key architectural decisions Own creation and maintenance of key architectural assets (e.g. enterprise architecture map, solution architecture designs, NFRs, data model) Work with the engineering team to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues Provide insight into latest technology trends to help deliver new and innovative digital and enterprise solutions Work with the CDO and HR to recruit, onboard and manage talent Key Skills/Abilities and Behaviours required for the Role: Proven track record in defining and establishing architectural principles, standards, and guidelines across multiple agile engineering squads and enterprise technology teams, distributed across multiple domestic and international locations Experience designing a global, high performing, external and internal user facing platform Experience building and managing teams of enterprise and solution architects Experience in developing and communicating the architectural vision and roadmap aligned with the organization's business objectives Strong understanding of Microsoft Azure & cloud native architecture and other cloud computing platforms Experienced working with CRM / ERP tools & Dynamics 365 Excellent analytical & problem-solving skills Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to explain complex technical solutions to non-technical audiences Experience in complex multi-product data driven companies Strong experience with systems and data platform & integration frameworks Degree in computer science, related field or equivalent professional experience Experience working with charities, NGOs, or similar organisations preferred Knowledge, interest, and passion for the environmental and / or sustainability space will be an advantage How to apply: Please submit your CV and a covering letter detailing how your skills and experiences align with requirements of the role. To apply, click on the following link: CDP have regional offices and local partners spanning 50 countries. There are now companies, cities, states and regions from over 90 countries disclosing through CDP on an annual basis. Let's recruit together and find your next colleague.
19/08/2023
Full time
About Team: The Digital Directorate delivers cross-cutting digital components and services which support delivery across CDP. This aims to achieve a shared vision of a modern, digital and collaborative organisation. Reporting to: Chief Digital Officer Purpose of Role: A newly created role, the Head of Architecture is responsible for technology enterprise and solution architecture, defining the vision and helping steer the technology roadmap across the organisation to ensure that our systems are designed and implemented in a way that meets the needs of our business. Accountabilities: Lead the enterprise, solution, data, and infrastructure architecture practice across CDP, introducing required patterns, standards, methodologies, and artefacts to deliver scalable technology solutions adhering to best-practice architectural principles Direct Reports and Main Stakeholders (internal and external): Directors, Senior Managers, Members, external bodies and partners, to build effective relationships, represent the service, and to provide expert advice and guidance on sensitive and highly complex issues. Ability to deal with confidential, challenging and highly sensitive issues / situations, which involve significant negotiation, persuasion and influencing skills. Manage relationships with customers / delivery partners / contractors. Deal with people at all levels confidently, sensitively and diplomatically. Interaction with others and the ability to successfully influence, negotiate and motivate are fundamental to the role. The ability to set and create the right working climate is critical to the success of the role. Consult with stakeholders to identify requirements. Lead partnership working with internal and external services / organisations. Chair internal / external working groups. Influence their decisions. Collaborate with the CDO and Head of Engineering to define the overall technology strategy Lead and manage a small team of solution architects. Budget Responsibilities: Own architecture budget, incl. resource allocation, tools, technologies(c. £3 million) Examples of Tasks /Activities associated with the Role: Responsible for the creation, maintenance and management of the enterprise technology landscape, North Star vision, and technology roadmap that is consistent and aligned with business needs and technology strategies Lead and manage a small team of solution architects in co-creation of solution blueprints and detailed designs (incl. technology selection and integration approach) aligned to architectural guiding principles, tech roadmap, business requirements Define, maintain, and ensure adherence to architecture principles, standards, patterns Govern and lead the Technical Design Authority to review and make key architectural decisions Own creation and maintenance of key architectural assets (e.g. enterprise architecture map, solution architecture designs, NFRs, data model) Work with the engineering team to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues Provide insight into latest technology trends to help deliver new and innovative digital and enterprise solutions Work with the CDO and HR to recruit, onboard and manage talent Key Skills/Abilities and Behaviours required for the Role: Proven track record in defining and establishing architectural principles, standards, and guidelines across multiple agile engineering squads and enterprise technology teams, distributed across multiple domestic and international locations Experience designing a global, high performing, external and internal user facing platform Experience building and managing teams of enterprise and solution architects Experience in developing and communicating the architectural vision and roadmap aligned with the organization's business objectives Strong understanding of Microsoft Azure & cloud native architecture and other cloud computing platforms Experienced working with CRM / ERP tools & Dynamics 365 Excellent analytical & problem-solving skills Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to explain complex technical solutions to non-technical audiences Experience in complex multi-product data driven companies Strong experience with systems and data platform & integration frameworks Degree in computer science, related field or equivalent professional experience Experience working with charities, NGOs, or similar organisations preferred Knowledge, interest, and passion for the environmental and / or sustainability space will be an advantage How to apply: Please submit your CV and a covering letter detailing how your skills and experiences align with requirements of the role. To apply, click on the following link: CDP have regional offices and local partners spanning 50 countries. There are now companies, cities, states and regions from over 90 countries disclosing through CDP on an annual basis. Let's recruit together and find your next colleague.
To support the Chief Information Security Officer in managing and reporting the Information Security Risks faced by Technology Services (TS) in delivering AJ Bell's systems and services. This role is responsible for facilitating the secure delivery of AJ Bell's technology and business change. The Security Architect will join a team of architects and play a lead role in designing and implementing security controls and processes. Key to this is assisting and supporting our colleagues in achieving their goals, but in a secure manner. This is a hybrid role with occasional travel to our Manchester Head Office. The key responsibilities of the role are: Subject matter expertise for security best practice, ensuring the maintenance of the confidentiality, integrity and availability of AJ Bell's systems and data. Design and implementation of enterprise security technology controls and platforms, following industry best practices. Supporting and advising on projects and change initiatives to ensure that there is no negative impact on our security posture Carrying out internal security reviews both on solutions we develop in house and third-party solutions. Supporting audit and due diligence activities within Technology Services Working with Information Security, Infrastructure and Architecture to define security standards. Acts as an integration point between the CISO and AJ Bell business and technology teams to ensure security is embedded across the organisation Essential experience, knowledge and skills: Demonstrable experience of implementing enterprise security platforms Previous experience of delivering and maintaining of technical enterprise security solutions for (but not limited to) the following areas: End Point Protection, Cloud Security, Network Security, DevOps, Security Monitoring & Remediation is advantageous. Knowledge of Secure Software Development Life Cycle best practices Strong understanding and knowledge of Information Security risk management tools and techniques Experience of security governance and compliance, ideally gained in financial services organisations Demonstrable understanding of Information Security control standards and frameworks e.g. ISO27001, NIST, PCI DSS Awareness and understanding of the Information Security threat landscape Deep understanding of Information Security solutions and controls Experience of Cloud security solutions and standards is highly advantageous Knowledge & Skills Excellent communicator, able to translate complex topics to all areas of the business Significant experience in the area of Information security Strong knowledge of core IT and networking concepts Well versed in IT security capabilities, framework and concepts Strong ownership of tasks, attention to detail and following through to conclusion Ability to challenge approach, strategy and implementation to ensure Information Security is consistently considered and improved Ability to work under own initiative to plan and communicate effectively with colleagues and customers Structured, self-starting, flexible and enjoy working in fast-paced environments Effective communication skills, both written and verbal Ability to plan, organise and follow through on assigned tasks and complete with little or no prompting from management Excellent attention to detail Attained CISSP or similar certification Minimum of 5 years' experience in an Information Security role gained in a financial services or e-commerce environment is preferred About Us: AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers, to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have 480.000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £75.1 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures. Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company. Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1100 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For' for five consecutive years. There are opportunities for growth and professional development for employees wanting to progress within their career including induction training and our study support scheme which is part of our benefits package. There is an active programme of social events throughout the year, which are open to all employees. What we offer: • Generous holiday allowance increasing up to 30 days with service, plus bank holidays• Company Health cash plan• Holiday buy/sell scheme• Hybrid working policy• Casual dress code• Discretionary bonus• Contributory pension scheme• Dedicated time for proof-of-concepts and assessing new tech• Support to attend conferences, events, and meet-ups• Buy as you earn share scheme• Free share scheme• Paid study support for qualifications• Maternity/paternity scheme • Bike loan• Season ticket loan portal• Discounted PMI and Dental• On-site gym and personal trainer led classes• Paid volunteering opportunities• Free social events and more AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.
13/08/2023
Full time
To support the Chief Information Security Officer in managing and reporting the Information Security Risks faced by Technology Services (TS) in delivering AJ Bell's systems and services. This role is responsible for facilitating the secure delivery of AJ Bell's technology and business change. The Security Architect will join a team of architects and play a lead role in designing and implementing security controls and processes. Key to this is assisting and supporting our colleagues in achieving their goals, but in a secure manner. This is a hybrid role with occasional travel to our Manchester Head Office. The key responsibilities of the role are: Subject matter expertise for security best practice, ensuring the maintenance of the confidentiality, integrity and availability of AJ Bell's systems and data. Design and implementation of enterprise security technology controls and platforms, following industry best practices. Supporting and advising on projects and change initiatives to ensure that there is no negative impact on our security posture Carrying out internal security reviews both on solutions we develop in house and third-party solutions. Supporting audit and due diligence activities within Technology Services Working with Information Security, Infrastructure and Architecture to define security standards. Acts as an integration point between the CISO and AJ Bell business and technology teams to ensure security is embedded across the organisation Essential experience, knowledge and skills: Demonstrable experience of implementing enterprise security platforms Previous experience of delivering and maintaining of technical enterprise security solutions for (but not limited to) the following areas: End Point Protection, Cloud Security, Network Security, DevOps, Security Monitoring & Remediation is advantageous. Knowledge of Secure Software Development Life Cycle best practices Strong understanding and knowledge of Information Security risk management tools and techniques Experience of security governance and compliance, ideally gained in financial services organisations Demonstrable understanding of Information Security control standards and frameworks e.g. ISO27001, NIST, PCI DSS Awareness and understanding of the Information Security threat landscape Deep understanding of Information Security solutions and controls Experience of Cloud security solutions and standards is highly advantageous Knowledge & Skills Excellent communicator, able to translate complex topics to all areas of the business Significant experience in the area of Information security Strong knowledge of core IT and networking concepts Well versed in IT security capabilities, framework and concepts Strong ownership of tasks, attention to detail and following through to conclusion Ability to challenge approach, strategy and implementation to ensure Information Security is consistently considered and improved Ability to work under own initiative to plan and communicate effectively with colleagues and customers Structured, self-starting, flexible and enjoy working in fast-paced environments Effective communication skills, both written and verbal Ability to plan, organise and follow through on assigned tasks and complete with little or no prompting from management Excellent attention to detail Attained CISSP or similar certification Minimum of 5 years' experience in an Information Security role gained in a financial services or e-commerce environment is preferred About Us: AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers, to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have 480.000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £75.1 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures. Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company. Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1100 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For' for five consecutive years. There are opportunities for growth and professional development for employees wanting to progress within their career including induction training and our study support scheme which is part of our benefits package. There is an active programme of social events throughout the year, which are open to all employees. What we offer: • Generous holiday allowance increasing up to 30 days with service, plus bank holidays• Company Health cash plan• Holiday buy/sell scheme• Hybrid working policy• Casual dress code• Discretionary bonus• Contributory pension scheme• Dedicated time for proof-of-concepts and assessing new tech• Support to attend conferences, events, and meet-ups• Buy as you earn share scheme• Free share scheme• Paid study support for qualifications• Maternity/paternity scheme • Bike loan• Season ticket loan portal• Discounted PMI and Dental• On-site gym and personal trainer led classes• Paid volunteering opportunities• Free social events and more AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.
MAJOR GLOBAL RETAILER SEEKS Global IT Infrastructure ArchitectCAN YOU MAKE A SUCCESS EVEN MORE SUCCESSFUL?My Client is a major retailer based in the UK.but with a global reach.As they look to expand an improve their retail offering ,they are now looking to employ a dynamic and ambitious Global IT Infrastructure ArchitectAbout the Candidate: A proven background in presales, professional services and solutions design from previous SME roles At least 10years experience within IT Systems & leading technical design within Customer environments Technical SME covering areas of Microsoft products (AD, SCCM, WSUS, 365), Linux, AIX, Citrix, VMware, Storage in both Data center & Hybrid-Cloud environments, Mainframe is a plus Have an existing understanding of infrastructure technologies & solutions required to enable high performing business critical global SAP & VDI environments in both datacenter & cloud Clear understanding of LAN/ WAN architecture with technologies such as DMVPN & SDWAN Strong in IT Technology Leadership, Project Management and ITIL processes Experience in managing global transformations, transitions, M&A IT, change programs Background in leading customer & vendor meetings, whiteboarding and documenting solutions & tenders Senior level engagement with strong commercial/ business mindset & ability to command respect within a remote outsourced environment Ability to underwrite and ratify technical designs at high and low level Experience in a wide range of established and emerging technologies with the ability to harmonise & lead a global portfolio of services Industry recognised expert or architectural certifications and experience Global mindset, results focus, ownership & accountability, Innovative Highly motivated, flexible and ambitious with an opportunity- driven & shift-left mindset Very process oriented, hands-on and able to handle pressure Able to manage teams and proven experience in getting the best out of vendors Strong in planning and execution with good communication skills - customer oriented Excellent oral and written skills in English - any other languages would be an asset Microsoft MCSE or MCSA certification, LPI certification, CISSP certification Experience within the rapidly changing consumer Retail environment DevOps CI/ CD methodologies including Agile project delivery TOGAF, PRINCE2, ITILv3 IoT, Analytics and AIKey Responsibilities: Lead the CIO Design authority & governance with internal stakeholders and vendors to drive consistent experiences & deliver new globally deployed solutions, projects or changes enabling key business metrics Act as Chief Architect for Global IT services and drive the business transition to a Service Oriented architecture prioritizing consolidation and security improvement Hold a data-driven mindset when working with technical teams, stakeholders and vendors to define, own & ensure a coherent and consistent technology strategy, roadmap & topology Ensure all current and future solutions meet security, quality, policy and compliance requirements Identify opportunities to provide innovative enterprise solutions by leading PoC's for technology that strengthen the global service offerings & capabilities. Ensure tight alignment & partnerships with key technology vendors to ensure forward thinking & proactivity Establish close working relationships with geographically diverse business stakeholders to scope requirements, construct high & low-level technical designs (functional & non-functional), configurations and operational processes to drive Local, Country or Divisional projectsBenefits include large bonus, hybrid working, private medical, significant product discount.This is an exciting and challenging role with excellent career prospects and a very good £package.If you think it is right for you, then please submit your CV asap,via the link below, or call Ian Gerstein on for more information.Mandeville is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
05/08/2023
Full time
MAJOR GLOBAL RETAILER SEEKS Global IT Infrastructure ArchitectCAN YOU MAKE A SUCCESS EVEN MORE SUCCESSFUL?My Client is a major retailer based in the UK.but with a global reach.As they look to expand an improve their retail offering ,they are now looking to employ a dynamic and ambitious Global IT Infrastructure ArchitectAbout the Candidate: A proven background in presales, professional services and solutions design from previous SME roles At least 10years experience within IT Systems & leading technical design within Customer environments Technical SME covering areas of Microsoft products (AD, SCCM, WSUS, 365), Linux, AIX, Citrix, VMware, Storage in both Data center & Hybrid-Cloud environments, Mainframe is a plus Have an existing understanding of infrastructure technologies & solutions required to enable high performing business critical global SAP & VDI environments in both datacenter & cloud Clear understanding of LAN/ WAN architecture with technologies such as DMVPN & SDWAN Strong in IT Technology Leadership, Project Management and ITIL processes Experience in managing global transformations, transitions, M&A IT, change programs Background in leading customer & vendor meetings, whiteboarding and documenting solutions & tenders Senior level engagement with strong commercial/ business mindset & ability to command respect within a remote outsourced environment Ability to underwrite and ratify technical designs at high and low level Experience in a wide range of established and emerging technologies with the ability to harmonise & lead a global portfolio of services Industry recognised expert or architectural certifications and experience Global mindset, results focus, ownership & accountability, Innovative Highly motivated, flexible and ambitious with an opportunity- driven & shift-left mindset Very process oriented, hands-on and able to handle pressure Able to manage teams and proven experience in getting the best out of vendors Strong in planning and execution with good communication skills - customer oriented Excellent oral and written skills in English - any other languages would be an asset Microsoft MCSE or MCSA certification, LPI certification, CISSP certification Experience within the rapidly changing consumer Retail environment DevOps CI/ CD methodologies including Agile project delivery TOGAF, PRINCE2, ITILv3 IoT, Analytics and AIKey Responsibilities: Lead the CIO Design authority & governance with internal stakeholders and vendors to drive consistent experiences & deliver new globally deployed solutions, projects or changes enabling key business metrics Act as Chief Architect for Global IT services and drive the business transition to a Service Oriented architecture prioritizing consolidation and security improvement Hold a data-driven mindset when working with technical teams, stakeholders and vendors to define, own & ensure a coherent and consistent technology strategy, roadmap & topology Ensure all current and future solutions meet security, quality, policy and compliance requirements Identify opportunities to provide innovative enterprise solutions by leading PoC's for technology that strengthen the global service offerings & capabilities. Ensure tight alignment & partnerships with key technology vendors to ensure forward thinking & proactivity Establish close working relationships with geographically diverse business stakeholders to scope requirements, construct high & low-level technical designs (functional & non-functional), configurations and operational processes to drive Local, Country or Divisional projectsBenefits include large bonus, hybrid working, private medical, significant product discount.This is an exciting and challenging role with excellent career prospects and a very good £package.If you think it is right for you, then please submit your CV asap,via the link below, or call Ian Gerstein on for more information.Mandeville is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
ABOUT US The Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity. We want to see a world where trees and woods thrive for people and nature. The Trust engages and inspires people to make their difference tackling the nature and climate crisis helping protect, restore and create our vital woods and trees.
THE ROLE The Chief Technology Officer will lead the Digital Enablement team, responsible for the planning and delivery of our long-term technology strategy, which underpins delivery of the Trust’s broader strategic goals. You’ll be in the driving seat of our digital transformation through Microsoft Dynamics, Dataverse and beyond, and you’ll manage our technology operations and projects, mitigating risks and managing budgets, while looking for opportunities to improve what we do through technical solutions.
THE CANDIDATE With substantial experience of creating a high-performance culture that drives delivery whilst building collaboration, inclusion and continuous improvement, you’ll be an inspirational and compelling expert, with experience of leading change and transformation and an understanding of digital trends and technologies, and how these might relate to the Woodland Trust’s work and vision
You’ll be an experienced Enterprise Architect, able to support, coach, mentor and develop teams to embrace new ways of working and the adoption of new technologies. You’ll have detailed knowledge and hands on experience with the Microsoft Cloud Ecosystem, agile product development, and experience in driving innovation in partnership with internal colleagues and external consultants.
Our Organisational Nature enables us to better understand what it means to be part of the Woodland Trust, empowering us to make an impact, every day. We want you to be able to role model our values; ‘Grow Together’, ‘Focus’, ‘Explore’ and ‘Make it Count’ to ensure each of us plays our part in helping to protect, restore and create our woods and trees.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT There’s no other organisation like the Woodland Trust. Joining the team you will be making your contribution to tackling the nature and climate crisis. In return, we recognise and value our people. You'll have our full support, training and opportunities for professional development, along with a contributory pension, life assurance, good holiday allowance and the opportunity to work flexibly from home.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION At the Woodland Trust, we want to reflect and represent the full richness of diversity in the UK. Fewer of our employees are Black, Asian or minority ethnic; disabled; from lower socio-economic backgrounds or under 25; so we are particularly keen to receive your application if you are from one or more of these groups. We can also discuss anything you may need to achieve your full potential at any stage of the process. We assess your application solely on your demonstrated suitability for the job. Nothing else.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. If you are interested, we'd encourage you to submit your application as early as possible
05/06/2023
Full time
ABOUT US The Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity. We want to see a world where trees and woods thrive for people and nature. The Trust engages and inspires people to make their difference tackling the nature and climate crisis helping protect, restore and create our vital woods and trees.
THE ROLE The Chief Technology Officer will lead the Digital Enablement team, responsible for the planning and delivery of our long-term technology strategy, which underpins delivery of the Trust’s broader strategic goals. You’ll be in the driving seat of our digital transformation through Microsoft Dynamics, Dataverse and beyond, and you’ll manage our technology operations and projects, mitigating risks and managing budgets, while looking for opportunities to improve what we do through technical solutions.
THE CANDIDATE With substantial experience of creating a high-performance culture that drives delivery whilst building collaboration, inclusion and continuous improvement, you’ll be an inspirational and compelling expert, with experience of leading change and transformation and an understanding of digital trends and technologies, and how these might relate to the Woodland Trust’s work and vision
You’ll be an experienced Enterprise Architect, able to support, coach, mentor and develop teams to embrace new ways of working and the adoption of new technologies. You’ll have detailed knowledge and hands on experience with the Microsoft Cloud Ecosystem, agile product development, and experience in driving innovation in partnership with internal colleagues and external consultants.
Our Organisational Nature enables us to better understand what it means to be part of the Woodland Trust, empowering us to make an impact, every day. We want you to be able to role model our values; ‘Grow Together’, ‘Focus’, ‘Explore’ and ‘Make it Count’ to ensure each of us plays our part in helping to protect, restore and create our woods and trees.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT There’s no other organisation like the Woodland Trust. Joining the team you will be making your contribution to tackling the nature and climate crisis. In return, we recognise and value our people. You'll have our full support, training and opportunities for professional development, along with a contributory pension, life assurance, good holiday allowance and the opportunity to work flexibly from home.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION At the Woodland Trust, we want to reflect and represent the full richness of diversity in the UK. Fewer of our employees are Black, Asian or minority ethnic; disabled; from lower socio-economic backgrounds or under 25; so we are particularly keen to receive your application if you are from one or more of these groups. We can also discuss anything you may need to achieve your full potential at any stage of the process. We assess your application solely on your demonstrated suitability for the job. Nothing else.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. If you are interested, we'd encourage you to submit your application as early as possible
A superb remote-based opportunity for a Head of Software Engineering has arisen to join our ever growing business! 2022 is turning out to be a huge year for our Digital & IT transformation as we have recently become a stand alone business with private-equity backing, so your expertise as our new Head of Software Engineering will be essential to delivering the best engineering function as we continue to grow. Want to join us on this journey? Read on to find out more! The Role: It is an exciting time here at City Plumbing. We've recently become a private equity backed business and have committed to change the way we think about our IT & Software platforms, investing heavily in our Digital capabilities with the purpose of transforming the way we engage with our customers. As our Head of Software Engineering, you will be responsible for defining, leading and delivering the engineering strategy as well as continuously striving to improve the service levels for delivery and processes. In addition to managing your internal teams, you'll also be responsible for managing outside business stakeholders, so strong influencing skills are essential! As our Head of Software Engineering your areas of focus will include: Serve as a technology lead to help shape and define our approach to engineering all our digital solutions across the business. Capture and articulate our development systems and programs, aligning to the company philosophy and practices, but also bringing in your own and industry best practices focusing on modern engineering concepts, practices and processes. Collaborate with Enterprise and Digital Architects to ensure the technology stack of the digital platform is engineered for high performance while enabling accelerated delivery. Management of 3rd party delivery teams and consultancies to establish best practice engineering capabilities to drive our digital transformation roadmap. Create a team culture along with the wider ITLT that brings the best of technical practices and customer focussed behaviour through managing and mentoring a team of engineers. This is a remote-based role with ad-hoc travel to team and business meetings. You should be based in the UK and our Head Office is based in Crick, Northamptonshire. This means you could be from areas such as Northampton, Milton Keynes, London, Birmingham Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, Chesterfield, Sheffield, Leicester, Loughborough, Oxford, Watford. You: You'll live and breathe our digital-first ethos, with an agile and pro-active approach. You'll enjoy working collaboratively with the wider team and you'll be committed to acting with integrity and honesty in everything you do. Required skills and competencies: Experience working at a senior level within Software Engineering. Proven leadership skills and experience managing digital development teams. A background in Agile development process with a desire to move to full DevOps. Experience of managing third parties through significant organisational structural and technology change. Fantastic stakeholder management skills, able to manage business expectations and influence business leaders. Focused on delivery, so an excellent knowledge of delivery processes is essential. It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Chief Architect, Engineering Fellow, Head of Engineering, Head of IT, Head of IT Transformation, Head of Software Engineering, Senior Staff Engineer, Software Architect, Software Engineering, Software Engineering Director, Tech Lead. Us: From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We're proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we're super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us. Benefits Package and Cultural Environment: Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers Savings on driving lessons, phone bills, gym memberships as well as further benefits Life assurance Bonus Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, let's be there for each other Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development Financial education and loans Flexible working options Striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self And more! We're passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy
24/09/2022
Full time
A superb remote-based opportunity for a Head of Software Engineering has arisen to join our ever growing business! 2022 is turning out to be a huge year for our Digital & IT transformation as we have recently become a stand alone business with private-equity backing, so your expertise as our new Head of Software Engineering will be essential to delivering the best engineering function as we continue to grow. Want to join us on this journey? Read on to find out more! The Role: It is an exciting time here at City Plumbing. We've recently become a private equity backed business and have committed to change the way we think about our IT & Software platforms, investing heavily in our Digital capabilities with the purpose of transforming the way we engage with our customers. As our Head of Software Engineering, you will be responsible for defining, leading and delivering the engineering strategy as well as continuously striving to improve the service levels for delivery and processes. In addition to managing your internal teams, you'll also be responsible for managing outside business stakeholders, so strong influencing skills are essential! As our Head of Software Engineering your areas of focus will include: Serve as a technology lead to help shape and define our approach to engineering all our digital solutions across the business. Capture and articulate our development systems and programs, aligning to the company philosophy and practices, but also bringing in your own and industry best practices focusing on modern engineering concepts, practices and processes. Collaborate with Enterprise and Digital Architects to ensure the technology stack of the digital platform is engineered for high performance while enabling accelerated delivery. Management of 3rd party delivery teams and consultancies to establish best practice engineering capabilities to drive our digital transformation roadmap. Create a team culture along with the wider ITLT that brings the best of technical practices and customer focussed behaviour through managing and mentoring a team of engineers. This is a remote-based role with ad-hoc travel to team and business meetings. You should be based in the UK and our Head Office is based in Crick, Northamptonshire. This means you could be from areas such as Northampton, Milton Keynes, London, Birmingham Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, Chesterfield, Sheffield, Leicester, Loughborough, Oxford, Watford. You: You'll live and breathe our digital-first ethos, with an agile and pro-active approach. You'll enjoy working collaboratively with the wider team and you'll be committed to acting with integrity and honesty in everything you do. Required skills and competencies: Experience working at a senior level within Software Engineering. Proven leadership skills and experience managing digital development teams. A background in Agile development process with a desire to move to full DevOps. Experience of managing third parties through significant organisational structural and technology change. Fantastic stakeholder management skills, able to manage business expectations and influence business leaders. Focused on delivery, so an excellent knowledge of delivery processes is essential. It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Chief Architect, Engineering Fellow, Head of Engineering, Head of IT, Head of IT Transformation, Head of Software Engineering, Senior Staff Engineer, Software Architect, Software Engineering, Software Engineering Director, Tech Lead. Us: From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We're proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we're super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us. Benefits Package and Cultural Environment: Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers Savings on driving lessons, phone bills, gym memberships as well as further benefits Life assurance Bonus Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, let's be there for each other Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development Financial education and loans Flexible working options Striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self And more! We're passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy
Head of SIEM and Analytics Technology London As a Barclays Head of SIEM and Analytics Technology you will join the Security Engineering and Technology Services at an exciting time of growth. The role will encompass the responsibility for various security services that the Chief Security Office operates, specifically around Security Events, as well as line management responsibility of a global security engineering team. This would be a great opportunity for you to showcase your technical guidance & vision with broad subject matter expertise in security technologies, specifically within the security assurance domain. Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity - helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. Hybrid Working We are currently operating in a hybrid working environment, meaning that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager. What will you be doing? • Lead on the design, development, and delivery of product roadmaps to support the evolution of core security services, aligning deliveries to Barclays strategy • Responsibility for all development, monitoring and stability of the SIEM platform as well as related UBA and analytics platforms • Designing and developing integration and automation solutions to extend the capability of the platforms. • Gathering use-case requirements and developing solutions for the cyber threat detection teams • Engagement with key stakeholders and Cyber Operations to define business requirements and solution design including system functional design • Serving as the lead SIEM Engineer while mentoring and developing team members across various Barclays site globally • Managing client expectations and demands proactively, maintaining good client relationships, working closely with the Project/Programme Manager • Ensuring that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Barclays Operational Risk Framework and internal Barclays Policies What we re looking for: • Supporting and have experience in roles of security technology operations at enterprise scale • Knowledge of data integration products/tools in the context of security logging, data models, enrichment and automation • Familiarity of security network architectures e.g. Firewalls, DMZ, proxies, DNS, web and mail servers, and the principles of networking • Delivery of successful IT change agendas, at scale and with multi-million-pound budget and ability to think architecturally at big picture implementation • Strong Linux/UNIX administration skills Skills that will help you in the role: • Experience with a major SIEM platform (like Splunk ES) as well as SOAR or similar automation/orchestration technologies • Exposure to cloud technologies, AWS, Azure and SaaS based security solutions • Proficient in development and maintenance in a high-level programming language (e.g. Python) and a scripting language (e.g. BASH), or more • Understanding of the MITRE ATT&CK framework Where you will be working In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as; a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.
18/09/2022
Full time
Head of SIEM and Analytics Technology London As a Barclays Head of SIEM and Analytics Technology you will join the Security Engineering and Technology Services at an exciting time of growth. The role will encompass the responsibility for various security services that the Chief Security Office operates, specifically around Security Events, as well as line management responsibility of a global security engineering team. This would be a great opportunity for you to showcase your technical guidance & vision with broad subject matter expertise in security technologies, specifically within the security assurance domain. Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity - helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. Hybrid Working We are currently operating in a hybrid working environment, meaning that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager. What will you be doing? • Lead on the design, development, and delivery of product roadmaps to support the evolution of core security services, aligning deliveries to Barclays strategy • Responsibility for all development, monitoring and stability of the SIEM platform as well as related UBA and analytics platforms • Designing and developing integration and automation solutions to extend the capability of the platforms. • Gathering use-case requirements and developing solutions for the cyber threat detection teams • Engagement with key stakeholders and Cyber Operations to define business requirements and solution design including system functional design • Serving as the lead SIEM Engineer while mentoring and developing team members across various Barclays site globally • Managing client expectations and demands proactively, maintaining good client relationships, working closely with the Project/Programme Manager • Ensuring that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Barclays Operational Risk Framework and internal Barclays Policies What we re looking for: • Supporting and have experience in roles of security technology operations at enterprise scale • Knowledge of data integration products/tools in the context of security logging, data models, enrichment and automation • Familiarity of security network architectures e.g. Firewalls, DMZ, proxies, DNS, web and mail servers, and the principles of networking • Delivery of successful IT change agendas, at scale and with multi-million-pound budget and ability to think architecturally at big picture implementation • Strong Linux/UNIX administration skills Skills that will help you in the role: • Experience with a major SIEM platform (like Splunk ES) as well as SOAR or similar automation/orchestration technologies • Exposure to cloud technologies, AWS, Azure and SaaS based security solutions • Proficient in development and maintenance in a high-level programming language (e.g. Python) and a scripting language (e.g. BASH), or more • Understanding of the MITRE ATT&CK framework Where you will be working In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as; a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.
About the role
NHS Digital operates some of the largest and most exciting digital systems in the country today. Its applications underpin critical healthcare programmes including COVID-19 vaccinations, the NHS Shielded Patient List and COVID status certification.
First and foremost, you will be a leader in NHS Digital. You will be an active member of the senior leadership community and contribute to the success of the organisation.
As one of two Chief Technical Architects, you will be responsible for the NHS Digital architecture, working to ensure coherence across all these systems. You will do this through having strong communication and influencing skills, being able to advocate for architecture good practice whilst having empathy with delivery, finance and resourcing needs.
As an expert in the field, you will develop and mentor staff in your team and more widely. A decent proportion of your time will be spent on leading the development of a learning culture, especially when it comes to the specialist content about digital health and the systems NHS Digital operates.
You will work with colleagues across other health and care organisations including NHS England & Improvement, NHS-X and DHSC. This will be as one team where logos are left at the door. You will have a close relationship with the other Chief Technical Architect and Principal Enterprise Architect.
You will have responsibility for ~ 30 staff, made up of permanent, interim and suppliers. You will co-ordinate across two directorates and tens of programmes. The role does not have significant direct financial responsibility but will have influence over multi-million-pound spending decisions.
As a Chief Technical Architect you will be responsible for:
Participating in organisational leadership including annual planning.
Leading the development of the architecture practice, for example developing a learning catalogue.
Supporting your architecture team in their decision making, undertaking architecture reviews etc.
Participating in architecture governance, including attendance at Architecture Board.
Interacting with colleagues from across the healthcare system on high profile or high-risk programmes, contributing to the digitisation of health and care.
Leading the development of a learning culture, mentoring colleagues in your team.
Working with colleagues across health and care organisations including NHS England & Improvement, NHS-X and DHSC.
First and foremost, you will be a leader in NHS Digital. You will be an active member of the senior leadership community and contribute to the success of the organisation.
About you
Some of the skills and experience you’ll bring to the role:
Substantial industry experience within an Information Technology domain maintaining in-depth knowledge of specific technical specialisms’, provides expert advice regarding their application.
Demonstrable evidence of taking a technical leadership role across large complex programmes.
Sound experience of architecture frameworks, methodologies and application of appropriate architecture methods.
Proven track record in a senior leadership/management role
Development and management of technical governance processes relevant to the entire organisation.
Proven strong communication skills, in particular skilled at building and managing relationships, and proactively engaging with and leading internal and external stakeholders
About us
NHS Digital is a great place to work. What we do matters. Our outstanding teams are passionate about technology and public service, making use of everyone’s skills to improve people’s lives. We collaborate to deliver world class tech and intelligence, come and join us. We are committed to sustainability, diversity and inclusion; our people are at the heart of what we do. Find out about the amazing work we do by visiting our website: https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/our-work Find further information on the current work we are undertaking meeting the challenges of the pandemic here: https://digital.nhs.uk/coronavirus What we offer In addition to a competitive salary with planned, transparent progression you can look forward to the following benefits:
27 days annual leave entitlement increasing with service
Buy and sell annual leave scheme
Contributory Pension (with a 20.6% contribution from us toward the cost of your pension)
Flexible working opportunities - we value and respect the diversity of our employees, and applications from prospective candidates who require flexible working arrangements are welcomed
A range of NHS Discounts covering, for example, shops, restaurants, gym, mobile phones and insurance
Employee benefit schemes which include Season Ticket Loan and Car Lease
For more information visit our Working at NHS Digital page.
05/10/2021
Full time
About the role
NHS Digital operates some of the largest and most exciting digital systems in the country today. Its applications underpin critical healthcare programmes including COVID-19 vaccinations, the NHS Shielded Patient List and COVID status certification.
First and foremost, you will be a leader in NHS Digital. You will be an active member of the senior leadership community and contribute to the success of the organisation.
As one of two Chief Technical Architects, you will be responsible for the NHS Digital architecture, working to ensure coherence across all these systems. You will do this through having strong communication and influencing skills, being able to advocate for architecture good practice whilst having empathy with delivery, finance and resourcing needs.
As an expert in the field, you will develop and mentor staff in your team and more widely. A decent proportion of your time will be spent on leading the development of a learning culture, especially when it comes to the specialist content about digital health and the systems NHS Digital operates.
You will work with colleagues across other health and care organisations including NHS England & Improvement, NHS-X and DHSC. This will be as one team where logos are left at the door. You will have a close relationship with the other Chief Technical Architect and Principal Enterprise Architect.
You will have responsibility for ~ 30 staff, made up of permanent, interim and suppliers. You will co-ordinate across two directorates and tens of programmes. The role does not have significant direct financial responsibility but will have influence over multi-million-pound spending decisions.
As a Chief Technical Architect you will be responsible for:
Participating in organisational leadership including annual planning.
Leading the development of the architecture practice, for example developing a learning catalogue.
Supporting your architecture team in their decision making, undertaking architecture reviews etc.
Participating in architecture governance, including attendance at Architecture Board.
Interacting with colleagues from across the healthcare system on high profile or high-risk programmes, contributing to the digitisation of health and care.
Leading the development of a learning culture, mentoring colleagues in your team.
Working with colleagues across health and care organisations including NHS England & Improvement, NHS-X and DHSC.
First and foremost, you will be a leader in NHS Digital. You will be an active member of the senior leadership community and contribute to the success of the organisation.
About you
Some of the skills and experience you’ll bring to the role:
Substantial industry experience within an Information Technology domain maintaining in-depth knowledge of specific technical specialisms’, provides expert advice regarding their application.
Demonstrable evidence of taking a technical leadership role across large complex programmes.
Sound experience of architecture frameworks, methodologies and application of appropriate architecture methods.
Proven track record in a senior leadership/management role
Development and management of technical governance processes relevant to the entire organisation.
Proven strong communication skills, in particular skilled at building and managing relationships, and proactively engaging with and leading internal and external stakeholders
About us
NHS Digital is a great place to work. What we do matters. Our outstanding teams are passionate about technology and public service, making use of everyone’s skills to improve people’s lives. We collaborate to deliver world class tech and intelligence, come and join us. We are committed to sustainability, diversity and inclusion; our people are at the heart of what we do. Find out about the amazing work we do by visiting our website: https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/our-work Find further information on the current work we are undertaking meeting the challenges of the pandemic here: https://digital.nhs.uk/coronavirus What we offer In addition to a competitive salary with planned, transparent progression you can look forward to the following benefits:
27 days annual leave entitlement increasing with service
Buy and sell annual leave scheme
Contributory Pension (with a 20.6% contribution from us toward the cost of your pension)
Flexible working opportunities - we value and respect the diversity of our employees, and applications from prospective candidates who require flexible working arrangements are welcomed
A range of NHS Discounts covering, for example, shops, restaurants, gym, mobile phones and insurance
Employee benefit schemes which include Season Ticket Loan and Car Lease
For more information visit our Working at NHS Digital page.
Head of Architecture Reports to:?Chief Technology Officer? Salary: £85-100k per annum dependant on experience? Location:?Stratford, with high flexibility of being in the office 1/2 days per week? Application method:?Please?ensure you?complete the experience section of the anonymous application form.? Application Deadline:?Sunday 26th?September 2021? Candidate Pack:? The Head of Architecture is a critical role within the newly redesigned Technology Leadership Team at Cancer Research UK, responsible for shaping,?iterating?and guiding the team towards?the future technology architecture for Cancer Research UK (CRUK). The role will also define and lead architectural?governance?and assurance in a highly agile, product-centric operating model. Together, these skills will ensure?that?key?technical?decisions?balance cost, risk, pace?and value, and?ultimately?accelerate the achievement of Cancer Research UK's compelling mission to Beat Cancer.?? The role-holder also?leads?CRUK's?technology?architecture?capability, including those?colleagues fulfilling architecture roles within portfolio teams, and will lead a small team of technical specialists. What will you be doing? In this role, you'll be responsible for: Providing leadership to the?charity in our?technology strategy and?architectural design across?all?domains?(including?business, applications, integration, infrastructure, data/analytics)?in order to ensure that our technology estate is coherent, effective and constantly evolving to meet our changing needs.? Partnering with?the leaders of our Product Portfolios as they refine their outcomes with their business counterparts?and build?highly effective, efficient roadmaps to deliver value iteratively over time. Architecture must be seen to influence and support increasingly product-centric and empowered ways of working within our portfolio teams. Ensuring that the charity's architecture strategy is informed by relevant sector trends in emerging technology capability - the role holder will?be seen as?a key thought-leader and influence in this respect.? Accountable for line managing, leading and developing an?Architecture capability to be proud of.?As a line manager you are responsible for creating a positive, inclusive culture which recognises success, develops and drives high performance and rewards collective results to retain talent within the team and wider function.?? Success in this role will be achieved?by?understanding and then influencing the corporate strategy and goals,?building a technology architecture framework, principles and standards, and?providing?technical direction?and highly collaborative leadership?to all key activities and teams. What are we looking for? To be successful in this role, you'll need to have extensive practical experience of leading architecture thinking and people in a relevant, highly digital and data-centric organisation or sector. You'll be a thought leader with deep content knowledge, whose opinions can be trusted and backed up by data and evidence. You'll also have: Experience?of?shaping and leading a capability team -?managing capacity,?ensuring in-house staff and contractors share the same vision and standards, and building and managing external partnerships successfully.?? People leadership skills as well as the ability to collaborate within and outside Technology, including: the ability?to build, mediate and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders across all levels, facilitating discussions, and?an adaptive?influencing style, unblocking work and creating buy-in to our architectural vision.Good knowledge of "industry standard" enterprise architecture frameworks,?and?software and platform?engineering?approaches (agile delivery,?microservices, cloud etc), applied in practice in a way that?enables?influence?across?the?Portfolio and Capability teams? What will I gain? Without you we wouldn't be able to achieve our aim of seeing 3 in 4 people survive cancer by 2034. So, we want to reward you in as many ways as possible. Our benefits package includes discounts on anything from travel to technology, generous holiday allowance of 30 days, gym membership, and much more. We want to ensure that you have the best work/life balance possible, so we actively encourage a flexible working culture for all our roles. For most of our office-based roles you'll only be required to work from a specific location for 1 or 2 days a week on average. You'll also be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. And ultimately, you'll know that you'll be changing lives through your work. If you're as ambitious as we are, join our collective force and enjoy an excellent career, as we save lives and add years.
13/09/2021
Full time
Head of Architecture Reports to:?Chief Technology Officer? Salary: £85-100k per annum dependant on experience? Location:?Stratford, with high flexibility of being in the office 1/2 days per week? Application method:?Please?ensure you?complete the experience section of the anonymous application form.? Application Deadline:?Sunday 26th?September 2021? Candidate Pack:? The Head of Architecture is a critical role within the newly redesigned Technology Leadership Team at Cancer Research UK, responsible for shaping,?iterating?and guiding the team towards?the future technology architecture for Cancer Research UK (CRUK). The role will also define and lead architectural?governance?and assurance in a highly agile, product-centric operating model. Together, these skills will ensure?that?key?technical?decisions?balance cost, risk, pace?and value, and?ultimately?accelerate the achievement of Cancer Research UK's compelling mission to Beat Cancer.?? The role-holder also?leads?CRUK's?technology?architecture?capability, including those?colleagues fulfilling architecture roles within portfolio teams, and will lead a small team of technical specialists. What will you be doing? In this role, you'll be responsible for: Providing leadership to the?charity in our?technology strategy and?architectural design across?all?domains?(including?business, applications, integration, infrastructure, data/analytics)?in order to ensure that our technology estate is coherent, effective and constantly evolving to meet our changing needs.? Partnering with?the leaders of our Product Portfolios as they refine their outcomes with their business counterparts?and build?highly effective, efficient roadmaps to deliver value iteratively over time. Architecture must be seen to influence and support increasingly product-centric and empowered ways of working within our portfolio teams. Ensuring that the charity's architecture strategy is informed by relevant sector trends in emerging technology capability - the role holder will?be seen as?a key thought-leader and influence in this respect.? Accountable for line managing, leading and developing an?Architecture capability to be proud of.?As a line manager you are responsible for creating a positive, inclusive culture which recognises success, develops and drives high performance and rewards collective results to retain talent within the team and wider function.?? Success in this role will be achieved?by?understanding and then influencing the corporate strategy and goals,?building a technology architecture framework, principles and standards, and?providing?technical direction?and highly collaborative leadership?to all key activities and teams. What are we looking for? To be successful in this role, you'll need to have extensive practical experience of leading architecture thinking and people in a relevant, highly digital and data-centric organisation or sector. You'll be a thought leader with deep content knowledge, whose opinions can be trusted and backed up by data and evidence. You'll also have: Experience?of?shaping and leading a capability team -?managing capacity,?ensuring in-house staff and contractors share the same vision and standards, and building and managing external partnerships successfully.?? People leadership skills as well as the ability to collaborate within and outside Technology, including: the ability?to build, mediate and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders across all levels, facilitating discussions, and?an adaptive?influencing style, unblocking work and creating buy-in to our architectural vision.Good knowledge of "industry standard" enterprise architecture frameworks,?and?software and platform?engineering?approaches (agile delivery,?microservices, cloud etc), applied in practice in a way that?enables?influence?across?the?Portfolio and Capability teams? What will I gain? Without you we wouldn't be able to achieve our aim of seeing 3 in 4 people survive cancer by 2034. So, we want to reward you in as many ways as possible. Our benefits package includes discounts on anything from travel to technology, generous holiday allowance of 30 days, gym membership, and much more. We want to ensure that you have the best work/life balance possible, so we actively encourage a flexible working culture for all our roles. For most of our office-based roles you'll only be required to work from a specific location for 1 or 2 days a week on average. You'll also be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. And ultimately, you'll know that you'll be changing lives through your work. If you're as ambitious as we are, join our collective force and enjoy an excellent career, as we save lives and add years.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Enterprise Architect to join the rail division of a FTSE 250 London based company on a major greenfield project utilising state of the art Azure PaaS to deliver a customer experience driven digital Omni-Channel ticketing and retail platform.
The company are committed to delivering an ambitious digital channel shift strategy over the next two years as part of their agreement with the Department for Transport utilising Agile/Kanban methodologies.
The Omni-Channel ticketing and retail platform is a first for a train operating company with a committed technology investment of over £6million.
The Role
As an experienced Enterprise Architect, preferably with a Retail background, you will act as a bridge between the business and IT by aligning the IT and the corporate strategies. This will require engaging with key Business and IT stakeholders, understanding the major business initiatives and guiding the enterprise towards a commonly agreed architecture. You will be a T-shaped individual, who has a breadth of knowledge and skills spanning both business and IT domains and someone who also has a depth of experience in areas such as applications and data architecture.
As an Enterprise Architect you will lead the promotion of a shared infrastructure, applications and resources to reduce costs and improve information flow across different business units. You will also ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies. You will do this by developing a deep understanding of the different business models operating across the group and provide or assist in developing a roadmap to bring these different models on a commonly agreed future state architecture.
You will take ownership of the delivery of the Rail Enterprise, leveraging the shared resources available through the matrix technology organisation. You will also ensure that the correct Governance and Technologies are delivered from the Digital co-located team consisting of Product Owner, Developers, DevOps, QA, UX, UI, BA and PM who are responsible for creating and delivering all the Digital offerings, following Kanban Agile methodologies.
Reporting to the Group Chief Technology Officer you will work closely together in creating and presenting strategic initiative work material to support different business units of the group with the primary focus for this role to be on the Rail Business.
What you will get
* Competitive Salary
* Final Salary Pension
* 15% Bonus
* Healthcare
* 25 Days annual leave
* Company benefits and discounts
Key Experience Required
We are looking for an individual with substantial leadership experience from an architectural context capable of demonstrating thought leadership with C-Level stakeholders.
You will have a background in delivering end-to-end transformation programmes, more recently digital transformation.
You will have experience of defining IT strategy and architecture to create a flexible organization that can quickly adapt to the needs of disruptive changes as well as experience working as a Technical Design Authority.
You will have built and managed an EA Architecture & governance framework including creation and ownership of technology artefacts.
You will have experience with a broad range of architectural methodologies and frameworks, i.e. TOGAF 9 as well as experience in implementing EA tools and processes with in-depth experience in enterprise applications delivering architectures involving Cloud (SaaS, PaaS & IaaS), e-commerce, online, social media and mobility.
Experience in delivering SOA-based integration is a must, ideally with an in-depth knowledge & experience in one integration engine such as WebMethods.
You will have experience in developing and delivering complex technology solutions leading from presales to delivery as well as Programme Management experience spanning both Waterfall and Agile programmes.
You will have managed highly technical staff with architecture, design and development experience and delivered large scale, multi-project technical solutions throughout the entire development lifecycle from inception to operation.
You will have a solid understanding of both current and emerging technologies with a strong background in delivering cloud based solutions such as Microsoft Azure PaaS and IaaS solutions.
Qualifications
TOGAF 9 certified
Trained/experienced in EA tools
Agile and PMP/Prince 2 Accreditation
The company is creating an exciting culture of business and technology hero's, co-located together, working as one team to create and continually evolve in an agile iterative environment a first class suite of retailing services
Coburg Banks IT specialise in recruiting in a variety of areas including: Development, IT Support, Programme and Project Management, Business Analysts and Testing as well as mid to senior level IT appointments. We would welcome the opportunity of helping you in your career, so please send a copy of your CV to us
09/09/2016
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Enterprise Architect to join the rail division of a FTSE 250 London based company on a major greenfield project utilising state of the art Azure PaaS to deliver a customer experience driven digital Omni-Channel ticketing and retail platform.
The company are committed to delivering an ambitious digital channel shift strategy over the next two years as part of their agreement with the Department for Transport utilising Agile/Kanban methodologies.
The Omni-Channel ticketing and retail platform is a first for a train operating company with a committed technology investment of over £6million.
The Role
As an experienced Enterprise Architect, preferably with a Retail background, you will act as a bridge between the business and IT by aligning the IT and the corporate strategies. This will require engaging with key Business and IT stakeholders, understanding the major business initiatives and guiding the enterprise towards a commonly agreed architecture. You will be a T-shaped individual, who has a breadth of knowledge and skills spanning both business and IT domains and someone who also has a depth of experience in areas such as applications and data architecture.
As an Enterprise Architect you will lead the promotion of a shared infrastructure, applications and resources to reduce costs and improve information flow across different business units. You will also ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies. You will do this by developing a deep understanding of the different business models operating across the group and provide or assist in developing a roadmap to bring these different models on a commonly agreed future state architecture.
You will take ownership of the delivery of the Rail Enterprise, leveraging the shared resources available through the matrix technology organisation. You will also ensure that the correct Governance and Technologies are delivered from the Digital co-located team consisting of Product Owner, Developers, DevOps, QA, UX, UI, BA and PM who are responsible for creating and delivering all the Digital offerings, following Kanban Agile methodologies.
Reporting to the Group Chief Technology Officer you will work closely together in creating and presenting strategic initiative work material to support different business units of the group with the primary focus for this role to be on the Rail Business.
What you will get
* Competitive Salary
* Final Salary Pension
* 15% Bonus
* Healthcare
* 25 Days annual leave
* Company benefits and discounts
Key Experience Required
We are looking for an individual with substantial leadership experience from an architectural context capable of demonstrating thought leadership with C-Level stakeholders.
You will have a background in delivering end-to-end transformation programmes, more recently digital transformation.
You will have experience of defining IT strategy and architecture to create a flexible organization that can quickly adapt to the needs of disruptive changes as well as experience working as a Technical Design Authority.
You will have built and managed an EA Architecture & governance framework including creation and ownership of technology artefacts.
You will have experience with a broad range of architectural methodologies and frameworks, i.e. TOGAF 9 as well as experience in implementing EA tools and processes with in-depth experience in enterprise applications delivering architectures involving Cloud (SaaS, PaaS & IaaS), e-commerce, online, social media and mobility.
Experience in delivering SOA-based integration is a must, ideally with an in-depth knowledge & experience in one integration engine such as WebMethods.
You will have experience in developing and delivering complex technology solutions leading from presales to delivery as well as Programme Management experience spanning both Waterfall and Agile programmes.
You will have managed highly technical staff with architecture, design and development experience and delivered large scale, multi-project technical solutions throughout the entire development lifecycle from inception to operation.
You will have a solid understanding of both current and emerging technologies with a strong background in delivering cloud based solutions such as Microsoft Azure PaaS and IaaS solutions.
Qualifications
TOGAF 9 certified
Trained/experienced in EA tools
Agile and PMP/Prince 2 Accreditation
The company is creating an exciting culture of business and technology hero's, co-located together, working as one team to create and continually evolve in an agile iterative environment a first class suite of retailing services
Coburg Banks IT specialise in recruiting in a variety of areas including: Development, IT Support, Programme and Project Management, Business Analysts and Testing as well as mid to senior level IT appointments. We would welcome the opportunity of helping you in your career, so please send a copy of your CV to us
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Enterprise Architect to join the rail division of a FTSE 250 London based company on a major greenfield project utilising state of the art Azure PaaS to deliver a customer experience driven digital Omni-Channel ticketing and retail platform.
The company are committed to delivering an ambitious digital channel shift strategy over the next two years as part of their agreement with the Department for Transport utilising Agile/Kanban methodologies.
The Omni-Channel ticketing and retail platform is a first for a train operating company with a committed technology investment of over £6million.
The Role
As an experienced Enterprise Architect, preferably with a Retail background, you will act as a bridge between the business and IT by aligning the IT and the corporate strategies. This will require engaging with key Business and IT stakeholders, understanding the major business initiatives and guiding the enterprise towards a commonly agreed architecture. You will be a T-shaped individual, who has a breadth of knowledge and skills spanning both business and IT domains and someone who also has a depth of experience in areas such as applications and data architecture.
As an Enterprise Architect you will lead the promotion of a shared infrastructure, applications and resources to reduce costs and improve information flow across different business units. You will also ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies. You will do this by developing a deep understanding of the different business models operating across the group and provide or assist in developing a roadmap to bring these different models on a commonly agreed future state architecture.
You will take ownership of the delivery of the Rail Enterprise, leveraging the shared resources available through the matrix technology organisation. You will also ensure that the correct Governance and Technologies are delivered from the Digital co-located team consisting of Product Owner, Developers, DevOps, QA, UX, UI, BA and PM who are responsible for creating and delivering all the Digital offerings, following Kanban Agile methodologies.
Reporting to the Group Chief Technology Officer you will work closely together in creating and presenting strategic initiative work material to support different business units of the group with the primary focus for this role to be on the Rail Business.
What you will get
* Competitive Salary
* Final Salary Pension
* 15% Bonus
* Healthcare
* 25 Days annual leave
* Company benefits and discounts
Key Experience Required
We are looking for an individual with substantial leadership experience from an architectural context capable of demonstrating thought leadership with C-Level stakeholders.
You will have a background in delivering end-to-end transformation programmes, more recently digital transformation.
You will have experience of defining IT strategy and architecture to create a flexible organization that can quickly adapt to the needs of disruptive changes as well as experience working as a Technical Design Authority.
You will have built and managed an EA Architecture & governance framework including creation and ownership of technology artefacts.
You will have experience with a broad range of architectural methodologies and frameworks, i.e. TOGAF 9 as well as experience in implementing EA tools and processes with in-depth experience in enterprise applications delivering architectures involving Cloud (SaaS, PaaS & IaaS), e-commerce, online, social media and mobility.
Experience in delivering SOA-based integration is a must, ideally with an in-depth knowledge & experience in one integration engine such as WebMethods.
You will have experience in developing and delivering complex technology solutions leading from presales to delivery as well as Programme Management experience spanning both Waterfall and Agile programmes.
You will have managed highly technical staff with architecture, design and development experience and delivered large scale, multi-project technical solutions throughout the entire development lifecycle from inception to operation.
You will have a solid understanding of both current and emerging technologies with a strong background in delivering cloud based solutions such as Microsoft Azure PaaS and IaaS solutions.
Qualifications
TOGAF 9 certified
Trained/experienced in EA tools
Agile and PMP/Prince 2 Accreditation
The company is creating an exciting culture of business and technology hero's, co-located together, working as one team to create and continually evolve in an agile iterative environment a first class suite of retailing services
Coburg Banks IT specialise in recruiting in a variety of areas including: Development, IT Support, Programme and Project Management, Business Analysts and Testing as well as mid to senior level IT appointments. We would welcome the opportunity of helping you in your career, so please send a copy of your CV to us
09/09/2016
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Enterprise Architect to join the rail division of a FTSE 250 London based company on a major greenfield project utilising state of the art Azure PaaS to deliver a customer experience driven digital Omni-Channel ticketing and retail platform.
The company are committed to delivering an ambitious digital channel shift strategy over the next two years as part of their agreement with the Department for Transport utilising Agile/Kanban methodologies.
The Omni-Channel ticketing and retail platform is a first for a train operating company with a committed technology investment of over £6million.
The Role
As an experienced Enterprise Architect, preferably with a Retail background, you will act as a bridge between the business and IT by aligning the IT and the corporate strategies. This will require engaging with key Business and IT stakeholders, understanding the major business initiatives and guiding the enterprise towards a commonly agreed architecture. You will be a T-shaped individual, who has a breadth of knowledge and skills spanning both business and IT domains and someone who also has a depth of experience in areas such as applications and data architecture.
As an Enterprise Architect you will lead the promotion of a shared infrastructure, applications and resources to reduce costs and improve information flow across different business units. You will also ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies. You will do this by developing a deep understanding of the different business models operating across the group and provide or assist in developing a roadmap to bring these different models on a commonly agreed future state architecture.
You will take ownership of the delivery of the Rail Enterprise, leveraging the shared resources available through the matrix technology organisation. You will also ensure that the correct Governance and Technologies are delivered from the Digital co-located team consisting of Product Owner, Developers, DevOps, QA, UX, UI, BA and PM who are responsible for creating and delivering all the Digital offerings, following Kanban Agile methodologies.
Reporting to the Group Chief Technology Officer you will work closely together in creating and presenting strategic initiative work material to support different business units of the group with the primary focus for this role to be on the Rail Business.
What you will get
* Competitive Salary
* Final Salary Pension
* 15% Bonus
* Healthcare
* 25 Days annual leave
* Company benefits and discounts
Key Experience Required
We are looking for an individual with substantial leadership experience from an architectural context capable of demonstrating thought leadership with C-Level stakeholders.
You will have a background in delivering end-to-end transformation programmes, more recently digital transformation.
You will have experience of defining IT strategy and architecture to create a flexible organization that can quickly adapt to the needs of disruptive changes as well as experience working as a Technical Design Authority.
You will have built and managed an EA Architecture & governance framework including creation and ownership of technology artefacts.
You will have experience with a broad range of architectural methodologies and frameworks, i.e. TOGAF 9 as well as experience in implementing EA tools and processes with in-depth experience in enterprise applications delivering architectures involving Cloud (SaaS, PaaS & IaaS), e-commerce, online, social media and mobility.
Experience in delivering SOA-based integration is a must, ideally with an in-depth knowledge & experience in one integration engine such as WebMethods.
You will have experience in developing and delivering complex technology solutions leading from presales to delivery as well as Programme Management experience spanning both Waterfall and Agile programmes.
You will have managed highly technical staff with architecture, design and development experience and delivered large scale, multi-project technical solutions throughout the entire development lifecycle from inception to operation.
You will have a solid understanding of both current and emerging technologies with a strong background in delivering cloud based solutions such as Microsoft Azure PaaS and IaaS solutions.
Qualifications
TOGAF 9 certified
Trained/experienced in EA tools
Agile and PMP/Prince 2 Accreditation
The company is creating an exciting culture of business and technology hero's, co-located together, working as one team to create and continually evolve in an agile iterative environment a first class suite of retailing services
Coburg Banks IT specialise in recruiting in a variety of areas including: Development, IT Support, Programme and Project Management, Business Analysts and Testing as well as mid to senior level IT appointments. We would welcome the opportunity of helping you in your career, so please send a copy of your CV to us
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Enterprise Architect to join the rail division of a FTSE 250 London based company on a major greenfield project utilising state of the art Azure PaaS to deliver a customer experience driven digital Omni-Channel ticketing and retail platform.
The company are committed to delivering an ambitious digital channel shift strategy over the next two years as part of their agreement with the Department for Transport utilising Agile/Kanban methodologies.
The Omni-Channel ticketing and retail platform is a first for a train operating company with a committed technology investment of over £6million.
The Role
As an experienced Enterprise Architect, preferably with a Retail background, you will act as a bridge between the business and IT by aligning the IT and the corporate strategies. This will require engaging with key Business and IT stakeholders, understanding the major business initiatives and guiding the enterprise towards a commonly agreed architecture. You will be a T-shaped individual, who has a breadth of knowledge and skills spanning both business and IT domains and someone who also has a depth of experience in areas such as applications and data architecture.
As an Enterprise Architect you will lead the promotion of a shared infrastructure, applications and resources to reduce costs and improve information flow across different business units. You will also ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies. You will do this by developing a deep understanding of the different business models operating across the group and provide or assist in developing a roadmap to bring these different models on a commonly agreed future state architecture.
You will take ownership of the delivery of the Rail Enterprise, leveraging the shared resources available through the matrix technology organisation. You will also ensure that the correct Governance and Technologies are delivered from the Digital co-located team consisting of Product Owner, Developers, DevOps, QA, UX, UI, BA and PM who are responsible for creating and delivering all the Digital offerings, following Kanban Agile methodologies.
Reporting to the Group Chief Technology Officer you will work closely together in creating and presenting strategic initiative work material to support different business units of the group with the primary focus for this role to be on the Rail Business.
What you will get
* Competitive Salary
* Final Salary Pension
* 15% Bonus
* Healthcare
* 25 Days annual leave
* Company benefits and discounts
Key Experience Required
We are looking for an individual with substantial leadership experience from an architectural context capable of demonstrating thought leadership with C-Level stakeholders.
You will have a background in delivering end-to-end transformation programmes, more recently digital transformation.
You will have experience of defining IT strategy and architecture to create a flexible organization that can quickly adapt to the needs of disruptive changes as well as experience working as a Technical Design Authority.
You will have built and managed an EA Architecture & governance framework including creation and ownership of technology artefacts.
You will have experience with a broad range of architectural methodologies and frameworks, i.e. TOGAF 9 as well as experience in implementing EA tools and processes with in-depth experience in enterprise applications delivering architectures involving Cloud (SaaS, PaaS & IaaS), e-commerce, online, social media and mobility.
Experience in delivering SOA-based integration is a must, ideally with an in-depth knowledge & experience in one integration engine such as WebMethods.
You will have experience in developing and delivering complex technology solutions leading from presales to delivery as well as Programme Management experience spanning both Waterfall and Agile programmes.
You will have managed highly technical staff with architecture, design and development experience and delivered large scale, multi-project technical solutions throughout the entire development lifecycle from inception to operation.
You will have a solid understanding of both current and emerging technologies with a strong background in delivering cloud based solutions such as Microsoft Azure PaaS and IaaS solutions.
Qualifications
TOGAF 9 certified
Trained/experienced in EA tools
Agile and PMP/Prince 2 Accreditation
The company is creating an exciting culture of business and technology hero's, co-located together, working as one team to create and continually evolve in an agile iterative environment a first class suite of retailing services
Coburg Banks IT specialise in recruiting in a variety of areas including: Development, IT Support, Programme and Project Management, Business Analysts and Testing as well as mid to senior level IT appointments. We would welcome the opportunity of helping you in your career, so please send a copy of your CV to us
09/09/2016
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Enterprise Architect to join the rail division of a FTSE 250 London based company on a major greenfield project utilising state of the art Azure PaaS to deliver a customer experience driven digital Omni-Channel ticketing and retail platform.
The company are committed to delivering an ambitious digital channel shift strategy over the next two years as part of their agreement with the Department for Transport utilising Agile/Kanban methodologies.
The Omni-Channel ticketing and retail platform is a first for a train operating company with a committed technology investment of over £6million.
The Role
As an experienced Enterprise Architect, preferably with a Retail background, you will act as a bridge between the business and IT by aligning the IT and the corporate strategies. This will require engaging with key Business and IT stakeholders, understanding the major business initiatives and guiding the enterprise towards a commonly agreed architecture. You will be a T-shaped individual, who has a breadth of knowledge and skills spanning both business and IT domains and someone who also has a depth of experience in areas such as applications and data architecture.
As an Enterprise Architect you will lead the promotion of a shared infrastructure, applications and resources to reduce costs and improve information flow across different business units. You will also ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies. You will do this by developing a deep understanding of the different business models operating across the group and provide or assist in developing a roadmap to bring these different models on a commonly agreed future state architecture.
You will take ownership of the delivery of the Rail Enterprise, leveraging the shared resources available through the matrix technology organisation. You will also ensure that the correct Governance and Technologies are delivered from the Digital co-located team consisting of Product Owner, Developers, DevOps, QA, UX, UI, BA and PM who are responsible for creating and delivering all the Digital offerings, following Kanban Agile methodologies.
Reporting to the Group Chief Technology Officer you will work closely together in creating and presenting strategic initiative work material to support different business units of the group with the primary focus for this role to be on the Rail Business.
What you will get
* Competitive Salary
* Final Salary Pension
* 15% Bonus
* Healthcare
* 25 Days annual leave
* Company benefits and discounts
Key Experience Required
We are looking for an individual with substantial leadership experience from an architectural context capable of demonstrating thought leadership with C-Level stakeholders.
You will have a background in delivering end-to-end transformation programmes, more recently digital transformation.
You will have experience of defining IT strategy and architecture to create a flexible organization that can quickly adapt to the needs of disruptive changes as well as experience working as a Technical Design Authority.
You will have built and managed an EA Architecture & governance framework including creation and ownership of technology artefacts.
You will have experience with a broad range of architectural methodologies and frameworks, i.e. TOGAF 9 as well as experience in implementing EA tools and processes with in-depth experience in enterprise applications delivering architectures involving Cloud (SaaS, PaaS & IaaS), e-commerce, online, social media and mobility.
Experience in delivering SOA-based integration is a must, ideally with an in-depth knowledge & experience in one integration engine such as WebMethods.
You will have experience in developing and delivering complex technology solutions leading from presales to delivery as well as Programme Management experience spanning both Waterfall and Agile programmes.
You will have managed highly technical staff with architecture, design and development experience and delivered large scale, multi-project technical solutions throughout the entire development lifecycle from inception to operation.
You will have a solid understanding of both current and emerging technologies with a strong background in delivering cloud based solutions such as Microsoft Azure PaaS and IaaS solutions.
Qualifications
TOGAF 9 certified
Trained/experienced in EA tools
Agile and PMP/Prince 2 Accreditation
The company is creating an exciting culture of business and technology hero's, co-located together, working as one team to create and continually evolve in an agile iterative environment a first class suite of retailing services
Coburg Banks IT specialise in recruiting in a variety of areas including: Development, IT Support, Programme and Project Management, Business Analysts and Testing as well as mid to senior level IT appointments. We would welcome the opportunity of helping you in your career, so please send a copy of your CV to us
Enterprise Architect
Location: London
About us
We are currently recruiting for one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK with a long standing history dating back almost 900 years. My client is a leading provider of healthcare infrastructure design, build and maintenance with a focus of providing innovative efficiency improvements within the trust. The organisation provides an ethical approach with a focus on making a huge difference within the NHS. They combine exceptionally high standards and public sector values with commercial focus, innovative thinking and modern technology to create the best possible patient experience. The technology arm to the business provides a broad range of IT services to the trust covering desktop, email, clinical/administrative systems, network, mobility, telephony and IT training with an aim of making digital healthcare a reality.
Summary
The purpose of the Enterprise Architect is to proactively and holistically lead enterprise responses to present and future business need by identifying and analysing business strategy and requirements under the direction of a Chief Enterprise Architect.
The Enterprise Architect will present business and IT leaders with recommendations for projects to achieve target business outcomes that capitalise on relevant business strategies and requirements. The Enterprise Architect will steer policy and decision making toward the evolution of an agreed future state architecture
Key Responsibilities
* Responsible in partnership with the Business Relationship Managers for the definition, design, creation and communion of effective IT Services across the Trust and compatibility with a number of different organisations and environments. To take complete Design Authority over this area of development.
* Responsible for the definition, design and architectural assurance of the delivery of software services for the Trust, in relation to Kings Health Partners, Clinical Advisory Groups, the wider NHS, local authorities and future Trust requirements.
* The post holder will work collaboratively with members of the IT Department and consult with external health care partner organisations to build a view of wider strategic initiatives. They will be aware of developments within the commercial health care sectors both within and outside the UK.
* The post holder will have responsibility for ensuring that IT Service Portfolio is kept in alignment with the stated architectural landscape.
Key Requirements
* Educated to Master degree level in an IT, science or engineering discipline or equivalent qualification, or with relevant experience, training and knowledge
* Certification or substantial demonstrable working knowledge of an appropriate enterprise architecture methodology or framework such as TOGAF, Zachman or Agile
* Certification or demonstrable working knowledge of associated frameworks or methodologies (e.g. ITIL, PRINCE2, MSP, UML etc.)
* Experience as an enterprise architect or other senior other architectural discipline
* Exposure to: Microsoft enterprise tools (e.g. SharePoint Dynamics, BizTalk, SQL Server, .NET etc.) and Messaging Services HL7, XML
* Full IT service lifecycle exposure (ITIL)
* Knowledge and understanding of how Finance departments and how Infrastructure works, the successful candidate will need to be able to communicate with varying departments and understand the language used.
This is a fantastic, rewarding opportunity to join an innovative technology services provider making a difference within the NHS. Please forward a copy of your CV or call (Apply online only)
09/09/2016
Enterprise Architect
Location: London
About us
We are currently recruiting for one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK with a long standing history dating back almost 900 years. My client is a leading provider of healthcare infrastructure design, build and maintenance with a focus of providing innovative efficiency improvements within the trust. The organisation provides an ethical approach with a focus on making a huge difference within the NHS. They combine exceptionally high standards and public sector values with commercial focus, innovative thinking and modern technology to create the best possible patient experience. The technology arm to the business provides a broad range of IT services to the trust covering desktop, email, clinical/administrative systems, network, mobility, telephony and IT training with an aim of making digital healthcare a reality.
Summary
The purpose of the Enterprise Architect is to proactively and holistically lead enterprise responses to present and future business need by identifying and analysing business strategy and requirements under the direction of a Chief Enterprise Architect.
The Enterprise Architect will present business and IT leaders with recommendations for projects to achieve target business outcomes that capitalise on relevant business strategies and requirements. The Enterprise Architect will steer policy and decision making toward the evolution of an agreed future state architecture
Key Responsibilities
* Responsible in partnership with the Business Relationship Managers for the definition, design, creation and communion of effective IT Services across the Trust and compatibility with a number of different organisations and environments. To take complete Design Authority over this area of development.
* Responsible for the definition, design and architectural assurance of the delivery of software services for the Trust, in relation to Kings Health Partners, Clinical Advisory Groups, the wider NHS, local authorities and future Trust requirements.
* The post holder will work collaboratively with members of the IT Department and consult with external health care partner organisations to build a view of wider strategic initiatives. They will be aware of developments within the commercial health care sectors both within and outside the UK.
* The post holder will have responsibility for ensuring that IT Service Portfolio is kept in alignment with the stated architectural landscape.
Key Requirements
* Educated to Master degree level in an IT, science or engineering discipline or equivalent qualification, or with relevant experience, training and knowledge
* Certification or substantial demonstrable working knowledge of an appropriate enterprise architecture methodology or framework such as TOGAF, Zachman or Agile
* Certification or demonstrable working knowledge of associated frameworks or methodologies (e.g. ITIL, PRINCE2, MSP, UML etc.)
* Experience as an enterprise architect or other senior other architectural discipline
* Exposure to: Microsoft enterprise tools (e.g. SharePoint Dynamics, BizTalk, SQL Server, .NET etc.) and Messaging Services HL7, XML
* Full IT service lifecycle exposure (ITIL)
* Knowledge and understanding of how Finance departments and how Infrastructure works, the successful candidate will need to be able to communicate with varying departments and understand the language used.
This is a fantastic, rewarding opportunity to join an innovative technology services provider making a difference within the NHS. Please forward a copy of your CV or call (Apply online only)
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Enterprise Architect to join the rail division of a FTSE 250 London based company on a major greenfield project utilising state of the art Azure PaaS to deliver a customer experience driven digital Omni-Channel ticketing and retail platform.
The company are committed to delivering an ambitious digital channel shift strategy over the next two years as part of their agreement with the Department for Transport utilising Agile/Kanban methodologies.
The Omni-Channel ticketing and retail platform is a first for a train operating company with a committed technology investment of over £6million.
The Role
As an experienced Enterprise Architect, preferably with a Retail background, you will act as a bridge between the business and IT by aligning the IT and the corporate strategies. This will require engaging with key Business and IT stakeholders, understanding the major business initiatives and guiding the enterprise towards a commonly agreed architecture. You will be a T-shaped individual, who has a breadth of knowledge and skills spanning both business and IT domains and someone who also has a depth of experience in areas such as applications and data architecture.
As an Enterprise Architect you will lead the promotion of a shared infrastructure, applications and resources to reduce costs and improve information flow across different business units. You will also ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies. You will do this by developing a deep understanding of the different business models operating across the group and provide or assist in developing a roadmap to bring these different models on a commonly agreed future state architecture.
You will take ownership of the delivery of the Rail Enterprise, leveraging the shared resources available through the matrix technology organisation. You will also ensure that the correct Governance and Technologies are delivered from the Digital co-located team consisting of Product Owner, Developers, DevOps, QA, UX, UI, BA and PM who are responsible for creating and delivering all the Digital offerings, following Kanban Agile methodologies.
Reporting to the Group Chief Technology Officer you will work closely together in creating and presenting strategic initiative work material to support different business units of the group with the primary focus for this role to be on the Rail Business.
What you will get
* Competitive Salary
* Final Salary Pension
* 15% Bonus
* Healthcare
* 25 Days annual leave
* Company benefits and discounts
Key Experience Required
We are looking for an individual with substantial leadership experience from an architectural context capable of demonstrating thought leadership with C-Level stakeholders.
You will have a background in delivering end-to-end transformation programmes, more recently digital transformation.
You will have experience of defining IT strategy and architecture to create a flexible organization that can quickly adapt to the needs of disruptive changes as well as experience working as a Technical Design Authority.
You will have built and managed an EA Architecture & governance framework including creation and ownership of technology artefacts.
You will have experience with a broad range of architectural methodologies and frameworks, i.e. TOGAF 9 as well as experience in implementing EA tools and processes with in-depth experience in enterprise applications delivering architectures involving Cloud (SaaS, PaaS & IaaS), e-commerce, online, social media and mobility.
Experience in delivering SOA-based integration is a must, ideally with an in-depth knowledge & experience in one integration engine such as WebMethods.
You will have experience in developing and delivering complex technology solutions leading from presales to delivery as well as Programme Management experience spanning both Waterfall and Agile programmes.
You will have managed highly technical staff with architecture, design and development experience and delivered large scale, multi-project technical solutions throughout the entire development lifecycle from inception to operation.
You will have a solid understanding of both current and emerging technologies with a strong background in delivering cloud based solutions such as Microsoft Azure PaaS and IaaS solutions.
Qualifications
TOGAF 9 certified
Trained/experienced in EA tools
Agile and PMP/Prince 2 Accreditation
The company is creating an exciting culture of business and technology hero's, co-located together, working as one team to create and continually evolve in an agile iterative environment a first class suite of retailing services
Coburg Banks IT specialise in recruiting in a variety of areas including: Development, IT Support, Programme and Project Management, Business Analysts and Testing as well as mid to senior level IT appointments. We would welcome the opportunity of helping you in your career, so please send a copy of your CV to us
09/09/2016
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Enterprise Architect to join the rail division of a FTSE 250 London based company on a major greenfield project utilising state of the art Azure PaaS to deliver a customer experience driven digital Omni-Channel ticketing and retail platform.
The company are committed to delivering an ambitious digital channel shift strategy over the next two years as part of their agreement with the Department for Transport utilising Agile/Kanban methodologies.
The Omni-Channel ticketing and retail platform is a first for a train operating company with a committed technology investment of over £6million.
The Role
As an experienced Enterprise Architect, preferably with a Retail background, you will act as a bridge between the business and IT by aligning the IT and the corporate strategies. This will require engaging with key Business and IT stakeholders, understanding the major business initiatives and guiding the enterprise towards a commonly agreed architecture. You will be a T-shaped individual, who has a breadth of knowledge and skills spanning both business and IT domains and someone who also has a depth of experience in areas such as applications and data architecture.
As an Enterprise Architect you will lead the promotion of a shared infrastructure, applications and resources to reduce costs and improve information flow across different business units. You will also ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies. You will do this by developing a deep understanding of the different business models operating across the group and provide or assist in developing a roadmap to bring these different models on a commonly agreed future state architecture.
You will take ownership of the delivery of the Rail Enterprise, leveraging the shared resources available through the matrix technology organisation. You will also ensure that the correct Governance and Technologies are delivered from the Digital co-located team consisting of Product Owner, Developers, DevOps, QA, UX, UI, BA and PM who are responsible for creating and delivering all the Digital offerings, following Kanban Agile methodologies.
Reporting to the Group Chief Technology Officer you will work closely together in creating and presenting strategic initiative work material to support different business units of the group with the primary focus for this role to be on the Rail Business.
What you will get
* Competitive Salary
* Final Salary Pension
* 15% Bonus
* Healthcare
* 25 Days annual leave
* Company benefits and discounts
Key Experience Required
We are looking for an individual with substantial leadership experience from an architectural context capable of demonstrating thought leadership with C-Level stakeholders.
You will have a background in delivering end-to-end transformation programmes, more recently digital transformation.
You will have experience of defining IT strategy and architecture to create a flexible organization that can quickly adapt to the needs of disruptive changes as well as experience working as a Technical Design Authority.
You will have built and managed an EA Architecture & governance framework including creation and ownership of technology artefacts.
You will have experience with a broad range of architectural methodologies and frameworks, i.e. TOGAF 9 as well as experience in implementing EA tools and processes with in-depth experience in enterprise applications delivering architectures involving Cloud (SaaS, PaaS & IaaS), e-commerce, online, social media and mobility.
Experience in delivering SOA-based integration is a must, ideally with an in-depth knowledge & experience in one integration engine such as WebMethods.
You will have experience in developing and delivering complex technology solutions leading from presales to delivery as well as Programme Management experience spanning both Waterfall and Agile programmes.
You will have managed highly technical staff with architecture, design and development experience and delivered large scale, multi-project technical solutions throughout the entire development lifecycle from inception to operation.
You will have a solid understanding of both current and emerging technologies with a strong background in delivering cloud based solutions such as Microsoft Azure PaaS and IaaS solutions.
Qualifications
TOGAF 9 certified
Trained/experienced in EA tools
Agile and PMP/Prince 2 Accreditation
The company is creating an exciting culture of business and technology hero's, co-located together, working as one team to create and continually evolve in an agile iterative environment a first class suite of retailing services
Coburg Banks IT specialise in recruiting in a variety of areas including: Development, IT Support, Programme and Project Management, Business Analysts and Testing as well as mid to senior level IT appointments. We would welcome the opportunity of helping you in your career, so please send a copy of your CV to us
Enterprise Architect
Location: London
About us
We are currently recruiting for one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK with a long standing history dating back almost 900 years. My client is a leading provider of healthcare infrastructure design, build and maintenance with a focus of providing innovative efficiency improvements within the trust. The organisation provides an ethical approach with a focus on making a huge difference within the NHS. They combine exceptionally high standards and public sector values with commercial focus, innovative thinking and modern technology to create the best possible patient experience. The technology arm to the business provides a broad range of IT services to the trust covering desktop, email, clinical/administrative systems, network, mobility, telephony and IT training with an aim of making digital healthcare a reality.
Summary
The purpose of the Enterprise Architect is to proactively and holistically lead enterprise responses to present and future business need by identifying and analysing business strategy and requirements under the direction of a Chief Enterprise Architect.
The Enterprise Architect will present business and IT leaders with recommendations for projects to achieve target business outcomes that capitalise on relevant business strategies and requirements. The Enterprise Architect will steer policy and decision making toward the evolution of an agreed future state architecture
Key Responsibilities
* Responsible in partnership with the Business Relationship Managers for the definition, design, creation and communion of effective IT Services across the Trust and compatibility with a number of different organisations and environments. To take complete Design Authority over this area of development.
* Responsible for the definition, design and architectural assurance of the delivery of software services for the Trust, in relation to Kings Health Partners, Clinical Advisory Groups, the wider NHS, local authorities and future Trust requirements.
* The post holder will work collaboratively with members of the IT Department and consult with external health care partner organisations to build a view of wider strategic initiatives. They will be aware of developments within the commercial health care sectors both within and outside the UK.
* The post holder will have responsibility for ensuring that IT Service Portfolio is kept in alignment with the stated architectural landscape.
Key Requirements
* Educated to Master degree level in an IT, science or engineering discipline or equivalent qualification, or with relevant experience, training and knowledge
* Certification or substantial demonstrable working knowledge of an appropriate enterprise architecture methodology or framework such as TOGAF, Zachman or Agile
* Certification or demonstrable working knowledge of associated frameworks or methodologies (e.g. ITIL, PRINCE2, MSP, UML etc.)
* Experience as an enterprise architect or other senior other architectural discipline
* Exposure to: Microsoft enterprise tools (e.g. SharePoint Dynamics, BizTalk, SQL Server, .NET etc.) and Messaging Services HL7, XML
* Full IT service lifecycle exposure (ITIL)
* Knowledge and understanding of how Finance departments and how Infrastructure works, the successful candidate will need to be able to communicate with varying departments and understand the language used.
This is a fantastic, rewarding opportunity to join an innovative technology services provider making a difference within the NHS. Please forward a copy of your CV or call (Apply online only)
09/09/2016
Enterprise Architect
Location: London
About us
We are currently recruiting for one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK with a long standing history dating back almost 900 years. My client is a leading provider of healthcare infrastructure design, build and maintenance with a focus of providing innovative efficiency improvements within the trust. The organisation provides an ethical approach with a focus on making a huge difference within the NHS. They combine exceptionally high standards and public sector values with commercial focus, innovative thinking and modern technology to create the best possible patient experience. The technology arm to the business provides a broad range of IT services to the trust covering desktop, email, clinical/administrative systems, network, mobility, telephony and IT training with an aim of making digital healthcare a reality.
Summary
The purpose of the Enterprise Architect is to proactively and holistically lead enterprise responses to present and future business need by identifying and analysing business strategy and requirements under the direction of a Chief Enterprise Architect.
The Enterprise Architect will present business and IT leaders with recommendations for projects to achieve target business outcomes that capitalise on relevant business strategies and requirements. The Enterprise Architect will steer policy and decision making toward the evolution of an agreed future state architecture
Key Responsibilities
* Responsible in partnership with the Business Relationship Managers for the definition, design, creation and communion of effective IT Services across the Trust and compatibility with a number of different organisations and environments. To take complete Design Authority over this area of development.
* Responsible for the definition, design and architectural assurance of the delivery of software services for the Trust, in relation to Kings Health Partners, Clinical Advisory Groups, the wider NHS, local authorities and future Trust requirements.
* The post holder will work collaboratively with members of the IT Department and consult with external health care partner organisations to build a view of wider strategic initiatives. They will be aware of developments within the commercial health care sectors both within and outside the UK.
* The post holder will have responsibility for ensuring that IT Service Portfolio is kept in alignment with the stated architectural landscape.
Key Requirements
* Educated to Master degree level in an IT, science or engineering discipline or equivalent qualification, or with relevant experience, training and knowledge
* Certification or substantial demonstrable working knowledge of an appropriate enterprise architecture methodology or framework such as TOGAF, Zachman or Agile
* Certification or demonstrable working knowledge of associated frameworks or methodologies (e.g. ITIL, PRINCE2, MSP, UML etc.)
* Experience as an enterprise architect or other senior other architectural discipline
* Exposure to: Microsoft enterprise tools (e.g. SharePoint Dynamics, BizTalk, SQL Server, .NET etc.) and Messaging Services HL7, XML
* Full IT service lifecycle exposure (ITIL)
* Knowledge and understanding of how Finance departments and how Infrastructure works, the successful candidate will need to be able to communicate with varying departments and understand the language used.
This is a fantastic, rewarding opportunity to join an innovative technology services provider making a difference within the NHS. Please forward a copy of your CV or call (Apply online only)
Enterprise Architect
Location: London
About us
We are currently recruiting for one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK with a long standing history dating back almost 900 years. My client is a leading provider of healthcare infrastructure design, build and maintenance with a focus of providing innovative efficiency improvements within the trust. The organisation provides an ethical approach with a focus on making a huge difference within the NHS. They combine exceptionally high standards and public sector values with commercial focus, innovative thinking and modern technology to create the best possible patient experience. The technology arm to the business provides a broad range of IT services to the trust covering desktop, email, clinical/administrative systems, network, mobility, telephony and IT training with an aim of making digital healthcare a reality.
Summary
The purpose of the Enterprise Architect is to proactively and holistically lead enterprise responses to present and future business need by identifying and analysing business strategy and requirements under the direction of a Chief Enterprise Architect.
The Enterprise Architect will present business and IT leaders with recommendations for projects to achieve target business outcomes that capitalise on relevant business strategies and requirements. The Enterprise Architect will steer policy and decision making toward the evolution of an agreed future state architecture
Key Responsibilities
* Responsible in partnership with the Business Relationship Managers for the definition, design, creation and communion of effective IT Services across the Trust and compatibility with a number of different organisations and environments. To take complete Design Authority over this area of development.
* Responsible for the definition, design and architectural assurance of the delivery of software services for the Trust, in relation to Kings Health Partners, Clinical Advisory Groups, the wider NHS, local authorities and future Trust requirements.
* The post holder will work collaboratively with members of the IT Department and consult with external health care partner organisations to build a view of wider strategic initiatives. They will be aware of developments within the commercial health care sectors both within and outside the UK.
* The post holder will have responsibility for ensuring that IT Service Portfolio is kept in alignment with the stated architectural landscape.
Key Requirements
* Educated to Master degree level in an IT, science or engineering discipline or equivalent qualification, or with relevant experience, training and knowledge
* Certification or substantial demonstrable working knowledge of an appropriate enterprise architecture methodology or framework such as TOGAF, Zachman or Agile
* Certification or demonstrable working knowledge of associated frameworks or methodologies (e.g. ITIL, PRINCE2, MSP, UML etc.)
* Experience as an enterprise architect or other senior other architectural discipline
* Exposure to: Microsoft enterprise tools (e.g. SharePoint Dynamics, BizTalk, SQL Server, .NET etc.) and Messaging Services HL7, XML
* Full IT service lifecycle exposure (ITIL)
* Knowledge and understanding of how Finance departments and how Infrastructure works, the successful candidate will need to be able to communicate with varying departments and understand the language used.
This is a fantastic, rewarding opportunity to join an innovative technology services provider making a difference within the NHS. Please forward a copy of your CV or call (Apply online only)
09/09/2016
Enterprise Architect
Location: London
About us
We are currently recruiting for one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK with a long standing history dating back almost 900 years. My client is a leading provider of healthcare infrastructure design, build and maintenance with a focus of providing innovative efficiency improvements within the trust. The organisation provides an ethical approach with a focus on making a huge difference within the NHS. They combine exceptionally high standards and public sector values with commercial focus, innovative thinking and modern technology to create the best possible patient experience. The technology arm to the business provides a broad range of IT services to the trust covering desktop, email, clinical/administrative systems, network, mobility, telephony and IT training with an aim of making digital healthcare a reality.
Summary
The purpose of the Enterprise Architect is to proactively and holistically lead enterprise responses to present and future business need by identifying and analysing business strategy and requirements under the direction of a Chief Enterprise Architect.
The Enterprise Architect will present business and IT leaders with recommendations for projects to achieve target business outcomes that capitalise on relevant business strategies and requirements. The Enterprise Architect will steer policy and decision making toward the evolution of an agreed future state architecture
Key Responsibilities
* Responsible in partnership with the Business Relationship Managers for the definition, design, creation and communion of effective IT Services across the Trust and compatibility with a number of different organisations and environments. To take complete Design Authority over this area of development.
* Responsible for the definition, design and architectural assurance of the delivery of software services for the Trust, in relation to Kings Health Partners, Clinical Advisory Groups, the wider NHS, local authorities and future Trust requirements.
* The post holder will work collaboratively with members of the IT Department and consult with external health care partner organisations to build a view of wider strategic initiatives. They will be aware of developments within the commercial health care sectors both within and outside the UK.
* The post holder will have responsibility for ensuring that IT Service Portfolio is kept in alignment with the stated architectural landscape.
Key Requirements
* Educated to Master degree level in an IT, science or engineering discipline or equivalent qualification, or with relevant experience, training and knowledge
* Certification or substantial demonstrable working knowledge of an appropriate enterprise architecture methodology or framework such as TOGAF, Zachman or Agile
* Certification or demonstrable working knowledge of associated frameworks or methodologies (e.g. ITIL, PRINCE2, MSP, UML etc.)
* Experience as an enterprise architect or other senior other architectural discipline
* Exposure to: Microsoft enterprise tools (e.g. SharePoint Dynamics, BizTalk, SQL Server, .NET etc.) and Messaging Services HL7, XML
* Full IT service lifecycle exposure (ITIL)
* Knowledge and understanding of how Finance departments and how Infrastructure works, the successful candidate will need to be able to communicate with varying departments and understand the language used.
This is a fantastic, rewarding opportunity to join an innovative technology services provider making a difference within the NHS. Please forward a copy of your CV or call (Apply online only)
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