Partnering with a UK-based charity that provides support to people facing challenges with drugs, alcohol, or mental health. This is a remote role with the odd travel to London.
Job Purpose
- Lead, shape and deliver future technology strategy, modernising architecture, and embedding robust governance around strategy.
- Provide senior-level expertise to design and enable a future-fit technology function that supports business delivery and transformation.
Main responsibilities / duties
- Technology Strategy & Architecture Roadmap
- Create a forward-looking, business-aligned technology strategy that sets a clear direction for IT.
- Design an enterprise architecture roadmap that is scalable, secure, and adaptive to changing organisational needs.
- Ensure technology decisions support service delivery, data-driven operations, and long-term cost efficiency.
- Technology Governance & Operating Model Transformation
- Standardise and simplify technology governance, policies, and processes to reflect a modern, strategic IT function.
- Embed industry-standard frameworks such as:
ISO/IEC 27001: The international standard for information security management systems (ISMS), ensuring data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library): A framework for standardising IT service management practices and aligning them with business needs.
- Shift IT's organisational role from a back-office support service to an integrated business enabler.
- Support Key Change Programmes & Technical Delivery Oversight
- Provide expert guidance on the technology workstream within the Finance ERP transformation programme.
- Lead platform rationalisation initiatives to reduce cost and complexity.
- Oversee consolidation of the IT environment, supporting the migration to a unified operating ecosystem (currently a mix of Microsoft and Google platforms).
- Relationship Management
- Lead the implementation of architecture and technology deliverables, fostering a culture of collaboration between IT and business teams.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritise user requirements, addressing them effectively.
