Head of Business Technology

Connells Group; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job description

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We are looking for a Head of Business Technology to join our IT team. This is a senior-level role aligned to a business area(s). The role is customer centric and ensures there is technical leadership to support that business area and works closely with the business to ensure that the technology supports the business needs and goals.

You will collaborate in cross functional teams, whose purpose is to implement system changes to support the changing business needs and maintain highly performing, stable and well-designed applications. This role is specifically for the Central Services team which covers People, Finance and Technology Business Aligned Teams.

We offer hybrid working arrangement with 1 or 2 days per week in our Milton Keynes office.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be the Business Technical Lead in the Business Aligned team working with product and delivery to ensure the business goals are achieved.
• Provide leadership, vision, and direction for the business area the role is operating within, supporting the business leaders with their demands of technology.
• Work with the senior leaders and Exec across the business to ensure that the technology teams support the strategy of that business area.
• Work with the business, product and architecture to design, manage, and/or execute product roadmaps.
• Build strong working relationships across Technology (Architecture, Platforms and Security) for the business (s) assigned to.
• Ensure that product technical debt is understood and is appropriately prioritised within the backlog.
• Collaborate in the trade-off discussions and roadmap prioritisation.
• Take accountability for non-functional outcomes including security, performance, availability, and reliability of systems within the business area.
• Matrix task management of the business analysts, software engineers and test team that are assigned to the business area (Circa 175 people).
• Work with architecture team to ensure that technical solutions are aligned to the business goals, technically efficient and cost effective.
• Work with the Head of Engineering to ensure that the business area has the right engineering capability within the agile teams to meet the demands of the business.
• Ensure that the technology to support the business area(s) is cost effective.
• Support the major incident process for any incidents impacting the business area.
• Maintain the technical relationships with suppliers that support the business area, participating in regular service reviews, ensuring understanding of their technical roadmap and technical debt.
• Support the engineering people performance process.

Experience and Qualifications:

• Educated to degree level in a computer science or related subject, and extensive experience in senior technology roles.
• In-depth knowledge of software development lifecycle and methodologies.
• Understanding of and experience with SAFe, and agile frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Experience of event driven microservices architecture.
• Worked with Jira, Azure Dev Ops (ADO), GitHub, Jenkins or Octopus automated deployments.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft .NET, Microsoft SQL, and cloud Azure.