Genium Selection
Head of Platform & Technology
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HEAD OF PLATFORM - strategy & delivery
Location: Worcestershire
Salary: Up to £85k + bonus + benefits
Hybrid working
Bring your vision to this Platform Leadership opportunity where you’ll define & deliver the technology strategy to modernise a globally used SaaS platform, aligning technology strategy to business objectives, client delivery and remain Best in Class.
Our client is a successful UK company providing its SaaS platform to clients globally with a large volume of users 24x7. The current tech stack limits business growth into new markets and ability to meet client requests; hence it needs to invest in platform modernisation.
The current tech stack is a web application platform hosted on Microsoft Azure, utilising Azure DevOps.
Role:
Reporting to the MD, you’ll bring vision to take ownership of tech strategy, product roadmaps, design and delivery of the platform modernisation. There’s an appetite for change & support of a complete modernisation. Selected platform technology needs to support business objectives, create future opportunities, product diversification, scalability, considering emerging tech, automation and AI.
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Leading a small team (product owner & Devs), this includes:
- Product leadership/management – Product Vision, Roadmaps, Prioritisation and Customer feedback
- Technology Leadership – Technology Strategy Definition, Platform Architecture, SaaS operations, Security and Development oversight
- Some Commercial & Stakeholder Management – occasional customer meetings, Tender support, Board reporting, and budget ownership
- Governance & Compliance – GDPR, ISO27001, Audit responses and Risk management
- Ownership of DevOps
- Team leadership and strategic direction
- Ensuring continued evolution, security, scalability, availability and commercial success of this platform
- Platform stability and client delivery with innovation
ABOUT YOU
To be considered, you need to bring proven delivery and expertise in:
- Defined strategy then delivering modernisation of an aging platform, ensuring continued service delivery and successful transition of clients to the new platform
- Software engineering / development / been a developer or come up through development
- Vision, defining and delivering technology strategy
- SaaS platforms, cloud tech, cloud architecture, software architecture and user experience.
- Software security, cybersecurity, data privacy (GDPR / data Residency) and platform resilience
- Make the transition journey positive for team, company and clients
- Product management
- Project management
- Up to date on Technology and DevOps
- Audits / ISO27001 knowledge
- Commercially astute, stakeholder management, ability to work with the business, team leadership and collaboration.
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Location: Worcestershire
Hybrid Working: 2 days in the office each week – so applicants must be within reasonable commuting distance of Worcester (Full time remote working is not an option)
Salary: Up to £85,000 + Bonus + excellent benefits, 25 days + public holidays, holiday purchase, EAP, Pension and more
Genium is acting as Recruitment Agency with regards to this vacancy.
Genium Selection, established in 2003 and REC member. Personal, tailored, and targeted, our approach to recruitment aligns talented IT professionals with business so both can thrive. Talk to us about your ambitions. www.genium.biz
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