Head of Enterprise Software & Tooling
| Posting date: | 02 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £64,108 to £95,600 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £64,108 to £95,600. The base pay is £64,108. In addition to this the role includes a Digital and Data allowance of up to £31,492. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 July 2024 |
| Location: | Swansea |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 357971/1 |
Summary
Are you a passionate IT Leader with extensive Infrastructure engineering experience particularly within enterprise alerting and monitoring?
Do you have experience of leading multi discipline IT teams within a complex-hybrid environment?
Are you experienced in building, maintaining and deploying SaaS (Software as a Service) tooling across large scale organisations with a diverse set of users?
If so, we would love to hear from you!
As Head of Enterprise Software and Tooling, you will provide leadership and strategic vision and overall management of a multidisciplinary team of technical engineering specialists. You will deploy, manage and develop skills to achieve productivity and SLA improvements, maintaining effective relationships with key stakeholders, taking into account the needs of users. In addition, you will work closely with the Heads of Architecture, Software Engineering and Engineering Services to ensure the technology skillsets of the Enterprise Software and Tooling Engineering capability is in line with those required to deliver against DVLA’s IT Strategy, ensuring the successful transition of new and enhanced IT services into the area.
Within DVLA a Principal Infrastructure Engineer Manager is a senior strategic leadership role within the IT Department. The role holder leads on all aspects of the Infrastructure Engineering community, including strategy, governance, standards, strategic stakeholder relations, and a focus on operational excellence within a defined domain area.
Responsibilities
- Developing strategic and tactical engineering roadmaps for technologies and services in your area of responsibility, ensuring they’re future-proofed and that the organisation derives maximum value from investment in technologies
- Working with technical architects to translate the architectural designs into operations and support technical architects in operationalising the designs
- Leading, directing and maintaining the capability of the infrastructure specialist teams in building, managing, supporting and maintaining solutions according to departmental policy
- Managing infrastructure and SaaS services by building and maintaining relationships with senior stakeholders of the services that the applications serve. Review current implementation plans, ways of working and identify improvements
For further information about the role please see the attached role profile.
Additional information
Applications will be accepted from full time/part time/job sharers. Full time roles at DVLA consist of 37 hours per week. Part time and/or flexible working may also be available subject to the needs of the business. If you have a flexible or part time working requirement, you should contact the vacancy holder in advance of making an application to avoid possible disappointment later in the process should your desired working arrangements not be compatible with the requirements of the role. To contact the vacancy holder, please use the job contact details listed under ‘Contact point for applicants’.
This role will be based in Swansea, and we will be operating a hybrid working model that allows you to work between home and on-site giving you greater flexibility about where and when you work, subject to business needs and this also allows for ongoing support, development, and collaboration with colleagues.
Therefore, the expectation is that you will spend a minimum of 60% of your working time based at your principal workplace (DVLA). We would encourage you to discuss the working arrangements for this role with us during the recruitment process.