IT Application Director

Light & Wonder; Chiswick; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming technology company seeks an IT Director of Applications to manage strategies, delivery, and operations for their applications. This role will oversee enterprise application ecosystems, ensuring security and reliability while driving innovation in application management. The ideal candidate should have over 10 years of IT leadership experience and a strong background in cloud platforms and IAM. Competitive benefits and a modern workplace are included, along with opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Competitive benefits

Flexible working practices

Supportive environment

Qualifications

• Proven track record (10+ years) in IT leadership.
• Expertise in Enterprise Application Management and Integrations.
• Deep hands-on knowledge of OKTA administration.

Responsibilities

• Manage the strategy, delivery, and operations for enterprise applications.
• Define and deliver the regional applications roadmap.
• Oversee OKTA administration and integrations across platforms.

Skills

Managing enterprise application environments

Cloud platforms management

IAM administration

Atlassian administration

Application integrations

Strong communication

Education

STEM graduate or applicable technical skillset

Tools

OKTA

AWS

Azure

Tableau

PowerShell

Job description

Corporate :

Light & Wonder’s corporate team iscomprisedof incredibletalent thatworks across the enterprise, defying boundaries to provide essential services in an extraordinary manner to ensure the success of the organization and the well‑being of employees.

Position Summary

The IT Director of Applications will manage the strategy, delivery, and operations for most of the Enterprise, and many customer‑facing applications, across the regional Business Units of Light & Wonder : Gaming, iGaming, SciPlay, and Corporate. This role ensures platforms are secure, reliable, scalable, and aligned with business growth while partnering with business unit leadership and teams to drive innovation in applications management, integrations, and automation, in both corporate and Cloud environments.

The incumbent will need to work collaboratively with L&W’s IT Leadership to assess the organization’s current and future needs, whilst working with peers and influencing leadership decision making, to devise strategic initiatives and objectives to meet these. This includes the assessment of operating environments, their contingency and efficacy, to ensure high delivery and availability standards are met. Working collaboratively with global IT Leadership, the incumbent will identify opportunities to enhance and expand IT infrastructure support services to meet the ever‑changing needs of L&W.

The incumbent requires good business acumen and comfort in communicating with business leads and executives in the L&W BUs, as well as other key organizational stakeholders. The ability to straddle the various locations, cultures, and service environments to provide consistent delivery of IT service is critical.

Profile

Seasoned IT leader with 10+ years’ expertise in managing enterprise application environments, cloud platforms, IAM (particularly OKTA), Atlassian administration, and application and third‑party integrations. Strong communicator and tactician with a proven track record of managing reliable application operations across complex multi‑site business environments.

Key Focus Areas

• Application Strategic Leadership : Define and deliver the regional applications roadmap with partnership and alignment to corporate and business unit objectives.
• Enterprise Applications & Integrations : Manage the enterprise application ecosystems and key business unit application platforms and environments.
• Identity & Access Management : Oversee OKTA administration and complex integrations across ~50+ corporate and customer platforms.
• Automation & AI : Advance workflow automation, ScriptRunner solutions, and AI‑enabled productivity initiatives.
• Cloud & Infrastructure : Regional leadership of AWS and Azure management with strong focus on scalability, security, and disaster recovery.
• Governance & Compliance : Ensure adherence to security, regulatory, and audit requirements in collaboration with InfoSec, Legal, and Compliance.
• Team Leadership : Build and mentor high‑performing, customer‑focused application engineering team.

Qualifications

• STEM graduate or applicable technical skillset, career, and experience.
• Proven track record (10+ years) in IT leadership, with expertise in Enterprise Application Management, System Support, and Integrations and Deployments.
• Deep hands‑on knowledge of OKTA administration, Auth0, AD, and M365 Tenant Operations and Management.
• Experience with Atlassian Ecosystem Administration.
• Expertise in RPA and Process Engineering (e.g., ScriptRunner).
• Expertise in managing Cloud Environments and CSPs (e.g., AWS, Azure), Data / BI Applications (e.g., Tableau, Cognos, Databricks) and Automation Frameworks (Nintex, ScriptRunner, MS Forms, PowerShell).
• Experience with Enterprise Collaboration Platforms (e.g., Slack, Teams, Google).
• Demonstrated success in inter‑team and leadership partnership and managing multi‑location / geography team members.

Additional Information

Why would you enjoy working with us at Light & Wonder?

Competitive benefits, an open and supportive environment as well as a modern and exciting workplace.

The opportunity to interact with global teams on a regular basis.

Tangible and genuine development – at Light & Wonder, you can take your career where you want it to go!

And if that’s not enough – you will get to enjoy a stunning work location and flexible working practices whilst we provide you with the guidance and development skills you need to progress quickly and enhance your career.