Director of Technology (IT)

Location

West London | United Kingdom

Job description

Director of Technology (IT) - Global Scaling Entertainment Group - London

We are a rapidly scaling entertainment group of companies comprising of around 2000 people spread across an increasing number of portfolio brands.

Due to their continued rapid expansion plans we are now looking to bring on-board a director of IT.

IT is currently decentralised, with each of its operating businesses operating individually, responsible for their own IT in line with their own specific needs. The decentralised structure works for certain activities but from an IT perspective it introduces risks to the wider Group and results in significant duplication from an effort and cost perspective. The Director of Technology will devise a centralised IT Strategy. This will be a hands on leadership position focused on building a high performing team as well as devising a cloud based architectural strategy to allow the group to build a "plug & play" platform as it continues to scale at pace globally.

This is a truly unique opportunity with unrivalled growth prospects as well as the chance to influence the Technology strategy for a rapidly scaling entertainment group!

Role

The Director of IT will assume responsibility for IT Strategy, Governance and Architecture. The person will support the delivery of a roadmap including critical aspects such as Enterprise IT, Cybersecurity, IT Services and Data

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain IT Group vision, strategy and plans; including overseeing the delivery of the associated plans
• Acts as a key internal technology consultancy for the overall group of businesses
• Creates and manages overall technology guardrails against which operating business' technology teams operate and owns the architectural governance process, particularly for infrastructure and integration
• Understand horizon requirements from each operating business and evaluate emerging technologies that may be relevant to the operating businesses and the sharing of these ideas and concepts
• Maintains an overall architecture roadmap - in alignment with the operating businesses - ensuring these align to the needs of each business and highlighting opportunity for synergy
• Maintains relationships with key vendor and operating business technology counterparts with regard to technology roadmaps, highlighting where further value can be exploited
• Identifies innovation opportunities and supports activities on emerging technology to provide proof of concept work that can inform the roadmaps of products within operating businesses or shared technology platforms
• Manages the group architecture community of practice and looks for ways to uplift the technical & application architecture capability across the different operating businesses
• Provides support to projects and other activities, giving advice on how business ideas can be best supported by current and future solutions and innovative ideas

Skills & Experiences

• IT Leadership Background
• Hands on architectural background
• Experience In building and managing high performing teams
• Experience in implementing Data & Cyber Security Strategies
• Stakeholder Management
• Broad Technical Infrastructure background
• IT Vendor strategy experience

£95,000 - £125,000 + Annual Bonuses & Excellent Benefits

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£95k - £125k per annum