Head of Platforms & Operations

Head of Platforms & Operations

Salary: to be discussed

Sunderland - onsite 3x per week

Are you a leader with strong technical knowledge of the design and delivery of core platforms, as well as demonstrable experience managing key internal and external stakeholder relationships? Are you looking for a new opportunity to shape a growing team, challenging them to drive innovation? If so, apply now for this newly created role.

The Head of Platforms & Operations will join a well-established business at a time of transformation, and will be instrumental in building a team that will design, deliver and support core platforms. We’re looking for someone who can drive innovation and step outside of the status quo.

If successful, you will be responsible for the following:

Strategic leadership – establish and deliver the strategic roadmap for the team, identifying new technologies and ways of working to achieve objectives

Platform Management – build and operation of core platforms across infrastructure, storage, on-premise and cloud solutions (AWS, Azure), EUC, DevOps

Solutions Architecture – lead a small team of solutions architects, ensuring frameworks and standards are applied

Technical Services – lead a team of technical engineers providing engineering services across EUC, data platforms, Network infrastructure, M365, Cloud hosting etc

Project Management – oversee delivery of key IT initiatives in line with governance standards

Support – lead a disparate team of field engineers providing hands-on support across various sites

Change leadership – you will manage a team through a significant period of change, so prior experience of this will be ideal

Relationship management – you will build and manage effective relationships with internal stakeholders at all levels as well as key external suppliers

The successful Head of Platforms & Operations will have:

Proven experience in platform engineering and IT operations

Demonstrated success in leading teams through change

Broad knowledge across technologies/practices including: Cloud, EUC, Storage, Collaboration Solutions, Networking, Data Platforms, DevOps, CI/CD and container orchestration

Exceptional relationship management skills and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences

The salary and package on offer is generous and comprehensive. I would be happy to discuss this in more detail with you directly.

If this sounds of interest, please apply today!