What you’ll be doing

As an IT Change Lead, you will:

• Lead and coordinate small to medium IT change initiatives, ensuring clear requirements, plans, risks, issues, dependencies and outcomes are understood and managed.
• Drive the collaboration with stakeholders at all levels of the business to understand operational needs and translate them into clear IT requirements.
• Lead the collaboration from all IT specialisms, suppliers and business stakeholders to ensure solutions are designed, delivered and transitioned effectively.
• Be a custodian for governance and control across the IT change portfolio, including adherence to IT change management best practice.
• Manage and prioritise a portfolio of third-party or campus partner technology requests, ensuring expectations, costs, timelines and dependencies are clearly communicated.
• Play a key part in ensuring new or changed services are adopted smoothly by operational teams, with appropriate communication, training, documentation and support arrangements in place.
• Support the delivery of IT workstreams within wider capital, construction and business change projects.
• Identify opportunities to improve IT change processes, tools and ways of working, promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
• Build trusted working relationships across the airport, acting as a positive and pragmatic representative of the IT department.

What we’re looking for

To apply for this role, you’ll need:

• The successful candidate must be able to obtain a Counter Terrorism Check, so you must have lived in the UK for at least the last 3 consecutive years
• Experience project/change methodology
• Experience with IT change
• Great work ethic and organisational skills
• Good communication skills, both written and oral
• Good analytical and critical thinking skills
• Experience working on projects and/or in an IT function

The following knowledge would be nice to have, but is not essential for this role:

• Airport/Aviation Experience
• Experience working with cross functional teams
• Prior project delivery experience
• Prior experience of IT systems and/or infrastructure

If your experience looks slightly different to what we’ve listed here, we encourage you to still apply.

You could add something we didn’t know we needed.

What we’ll offer you

• Pension scheme- employer contributions can be up to 7%
• 32 days holiday, based on full time roles, increasing with service
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Supporting your health and wellbeing- private healthcare after 1 years’ service, access to our Employee Assistance Programme and occupational health services
• Free car parking on site and when you go on holiday
• We offer a range of other benefits, find out more here

Why EDI?

We are Edinburgh Airport, where Scotland meets the world. The success of the airport comes down to our people, and you can help us deliver even more big days for our passengers and colleagues. The development of your career is important to us, and we’ll support and encourage this every step of the way. We offer in-house and external training, both role specific and based on your objectives.

As a business we’re driven by our values – they’re at the core of our culture and everything we do. We will ask questions based on our values during your interview, as we’re looking for people who will demonstrate these values day-in, day-out. So if this sounds like you, apply now and get ready for your career to take off.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring applicants with a disability can participate fully in our recruitment process. Please let us know in your application form if you require any adjustments, such as parking arrangements or alternative methods of communication.

We work with Inclusive Employers, who are a leading organisation for employers committed to prioritising inclusion. We are supported by them through leadership workshops, a variety of resources and webinars, demonstrating our commitment to an inclusive workplace and ensuring all our employees feel valued. This partnership is part of our wider Diversity and Inclusion strategy, and you can find out more here.

We give colleagues the opportunity to engage with different people and projects, within our business and beyond. You can get involved in a variety of different employee groups, including Diversity, STEM, Wellbeing, or create your own community – it’s important to us that you can share your interests and be yourself at work.