Head of Applications & Data

Big Red Recruitment; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday + bank holidays

5% employer pension

Life assurance

Employee assistance

24/7 GP support

Retail discounts

Healthcare cash plan (optional)

Eyecare

Flu-jab support

Cycle-to-work

Job summary

Big Red Recruitment is helping a respected UK client in Coventry to hire a Head of Applications & Data. The role owns customer-facing platforms, core business applications and the data that connects them, while building a small, brand-new team around you.

You will shape the technology function, manage SaaS platforms, and drive roadmaps with strong vendor partnerships. This is a permanent, hybrid role with significant leadership impact.

Qualifications

• Leadership of applications, digital products or data
• Building and growing a brand-new team around you
• Treat systems as products with clear roadmaps and strong vendor partnerships

Responsibilities

• Own customer-facing platforms, core business applications and the data that connects them.
• Build and lead a small, brand-new team around you to deliver priority projects.
• Influence technology strategy, architecture and roadmaps across the function
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure systems deliver real business value

Skills

Leadership

Digital product leadership

Data leadership

Team building

Job description

Coventry | Hybrid (2 days in the office) | £70,000 – £80,000 + 28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, 5% employer pension contribution, life assurance, employee assistance and 24/7 GP support, retail discounts, optional healthcare cash plan, eyecare and flu-jab support, cycle-to-work scheme. | Permanent

A new leadership role with the opportunity to influence and shape the function.

Our client is a highly respected, well-known customer-facing organisation with a large and loyal customer base across the UK. They're building a modern technology function and have created this new Head of Applications & Data role to lead a key part of it.

You’ll own the systems that matter most: customer-facing platforms, core business applications and the data that connects them. You’ll also build a small, brand-new team around you.

What's in it for you

• A new function to shape your way, with the autonomy to make it work.
• A strong pipeline of major platform and data projects over the next two years.
• A seat on the technology leadership team, influencing strategy and architecture.
• The chance to treat systems as products, with clear roadmaps, strong vendor partnerships and real value.

You’ll enjoy this if…

• you’ve led applications, digital products or data and like getting the most from SaaS platforms
• you enjoy building teams and bringing people with you
• you get a buzz from turning technology into something the whole business values

We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are committed to supporting an inclusive and equitable recruitment process on behalf of our client.