Technology Planning and Governance Manager

Onyx-Conseil; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Onyx-Conseil is seeking a Technology Planning and Governance Manager in Central London to drive the technology alignment roadmap and manage the core Applications Portfolio across multiple corporate functions. You will work with senior stakeholders, map business capabilities to solutions, and ensure secure, compliant delivery of changes.

The role requires strong governance, architecture experience, and leadership of architects and contractors.

Qualifications

• Extensive IT experience with practical solution planning and architecture design.
• Experience mapping business capability to solution architecture and roadmaps.
• Proven governance and vendor management skills in a corporate IT setup.
• Strong understanding of IaaS/SaaS/Cloud workloads and budgeting.

Responsibilities

• Drive development and maintenance of the technology alignment roadmap.
• Lead portfolio lifecycle across Finance, Legal, HR, and other areas.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to align roadmaps with annual plans.
• Create and present business cases for high-level initiatives.
• Ensure information security and data protection governance across IT.
• Manage architects, analysts and contractors; oversee vendor selection.
• Provide technical leadership for corporate IT initiatives.

Skills

IT governance

Solution architecture

SaaS

Identity and Access Management

ITIL

Azure Active Directory

Power BI

Budget & governance

Tools

Dynamics 365

Azure

Office 365

Job description

Technology Planning and Governance Manager

Be responsible for the ongoing development and maintenance of the technology alignment roadmap for Corporate working closely with senior stakeholders, systems owners and 3 parties to deliver innovation.

Lead day-to-day support and management of the core business Applications Portfolio lifecycle including but not limited to Finance, Legal, Property, Pensions, Treasury, HR, Business Development, Payroll and our Corporate Intranet ensuring that delivery of change is fit for purpose, of high quality, reliable and secure.

Role Responsibilities

Drive customer-centricity and stakeholder engagement, work closely with Corp functions to align application roadmaps with the combined Corp IT / SSC annual technology plans and dependencies.

Work with senior stakeholders to build, document and map business capability to solution architecture across the Corp.

Take ownership and develop a technology roadmap that meets the application requirements of the Corp to support the wider Company businesses.

Evaluate the potential impacts of application workloads moving to cloud, notwithstanding the threats and opportunities for Corp functions.

Shape, create and present business cases for high level initiatives, seek approval, funding and prioritisation with senior stakeholders.

Understand the capital allocation requirement across the Corp functions plus the overall impact of application change on the operational expenditure budget.

Align technology roadmaps and annual budget planning, use as the foundation for reporting on the state of the Corp Application portfolio.

Provide technical leadership for Corp initiatives engaging across the Company where corporate applications service the wider businesses.

Solve complex business problems with process and technology that cut across Corp group such as Identity and Access Management.

Document and review IT standards, procedures and policies to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. Liaise with internal and external audit teams.

Develop and adapt innovation tools and processes to drive operational excellence within Corp IT.

Establish and maintain a consistent and integrated approach to information security and data protection governance in line with audit requirements.

Create alignment on how to utilise governance forums such as User Experience and Architecture to improve services delivered to Corp functions.

Manage solution architects, contractors, 3 Parties and business analyst in the future.

Experience Required

Significant and relevant progressive IT experience

Experience of being in a practical solution planning and technical architecture design role is essential e.g. SaaS, Identity and Access Management

Good understanding of emerging and innovative technologies, how to shape, deliver and leverage those technologies

Experience of architecture business capability mapping, data management governance, technology roadmaps and project delivery lifecycle processes.

Experience of ensuring compliance between corporate business application roadmaps and IT roadmaps.

Experience of working within an ITIL service management environment with strong knowledge of business systems or applications within a corporate environment.

Ability to deal with and manage conflicts whilst building successful business relationships across a range of stakeholder groups both internal and external to the organisation.

Proven leadership skills, setting objectives and ensuring delivery of services to target

Proven contract management, supplier management, procurement, and vendor selection experience

Experience of systems such as Microsoft Office 365, Dynamics 365, SAP Success Factors, Treasury Openlink Findur, CMS, BACs Payment Platforms, Microsoft Power BI, Integration/ETL, Azure Active Directory Single Sign On and other bespoke applications

Experience in executing business continuity planning and IT DRP

Creating solution and technical application architectures, IT standards and policies

Day-to-Day management of the Application Portfolio, its currency, dependencies and risk

Technical lead on major system changes and upgrades

Responsible for the development and management of Solution Architects, Business Analyst and contract resources

Provide support to Corporate functions and wider businesses to enable them to optimise their use of corporate applications

Vendor Management and selection (RFIs / RFP support)

The Client is based in Central London.