Strategic Lead, Enterprise Applications & Data

United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory Limited; England; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Annual leave 25.5 days

Bonus

Learning opportunities

Employee assistance

Cycle to work

Health care

Discounts via My Discounts

Job summary

UK National Nuclear Laboratory is seeking a Head of Enterprise Applications to lead the strategic direction of enterprise applications and data platforms across a heavily regulated organisation.

The role focuses on maximising value from existing applications, reducing complexity, and ensuring new solutions deliver business value while meeting security, compliance and architectural standards. Strong collaboration with business leaders, risk and compliance, and suppliers is required.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in a regulated organisation.
• Direct leadership of ERP implementation or re-implementation in a large organisation.
• Experience with application portfolio management, rationalisation, and value optimisation.
• Understanding of SaaS, COTS, cloud models and associated risks.
• Experience operating within regulatory, risk, and compliance frameworks.
• Ability to obtain SC level security clearance (UK residency).

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of enterprise applications and data platforms.
• Lead application rationalisation to reduce duplication, debt, and cost.
• Oversee sourcing and onboarding of new applications with robust business cases.
• Ensure architectural standards, data requirements, security controls, and regulatory expectations are met.
• Partner with risk, security and compliance functions to manage risks.
• Represent the domain in governance forums, investment boards and supplier reviews.

Skills

Senior leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Regulatory risk

Executive communication

Tools

ERP systems

Data governance tools

Job description

UK National Nuclear Laboratory is seeking a Head of Enterprise Applications to lead the strategic direction of enterprise applications and data platforms across a heavily regulated organisation.

The role focuses on maximising value from existing applications, reducing complexity, and ensuring new solutions deliver business value while meeting security, compliance and architectural standards. Strong collaboration with business leaders, risk and compliance, and suppliers is required.