Back to search
Leading, motivating and strategically guiding the Technological future of a progressive Housing Association.
Client Details
Our client is a Housing Association based in the South east of England. They have a portfolio of 8,500 properties and provide homes to more than 29,000 people across the area.
Description
- Create, lead and implement an IT strategy and relevant roadmaps to support the company objectives and organisational needs.
- Ensure an effective cyber security strategy and roadmap is in place with regular audits, assessments and testing.
- Collaborate with other specialists to evaluate new technology offerings for integration with the organisation
- Lead on top-level relationships and negotiations with hardware and software suppliers, ensuring probity in all dealings with IT suppliers building successful partnership relationships.
- Ensure a clear architecture roadmap is created in line with company objectives.
- Lead management of change, release and upgrade/maintenance cycles of all IT services within the organisation to ensure minimal disruption.
- Ensure that the IT service is customer-focused, monitoring outputs and responding positively to feedback.
- Provide expert technology advice and support to senior leaders and managers, including the formulation and implementation of policies and projects.
- Ensure full compliance with all relevant IT and security legislation, especially the Data Protection Act, and that effective IT policies and procedures are in place.
- Monitor the internal customer satisfaction with IT services and strive for continuous improvement in services provided.
- Manage licensing agreements with software and hardware suppliers.
- Ensure the availability, reliability and integrity of the IT service and that service availability meets customer requirements.
- Develop and implement a company-wide data strategy covering all areas including technology, data governance and quality.
- Implement and manage a comprehensive data management framework.
- Ensure strong data governance and focus on continual improvement of data quality.
- Lead the Business Intelligence, Data Governance and Data Quality and Improvement activity.
- Provide technical expertise in all areas including Business Intelligence (BI) report development, data engineering, data & information governance, change management and data quality.
- Advocate adoption of the UK Housing Data Standard and ensure adoption is supported and facilitated where practical.
- Ensure the availability, reliability and integrity of the BI report development function and that service availability meets requirements.
- Support the production of regulatory data returns and relevant data processes.
Profile
- Extensive senior management experience working in IT and Data leadership roles, including leadership and management of a multi-function team.
- Experience managing change effectively; understand the needs and benefits for change and play an active role in delivering successful change.
- ITIL or CoBIT certified or equivalent.
- Diplomatic with the ability to interact successfully at all levels.
- Good listener with the ability to effectively apply the knowledge gained.
- Strong belief in customer satisfaction and business benefit driven solutions.
- Previous public sector or Housing Association senior leadership experience.
- Experience of Power BI and other associated reporting technology.
- Educated to degree level or qualified by equivalent experience.
Job Offer
Competitive basic salary and package
