Head of Applications & Data

You take the application estate and the data platform. Three people will report to you.

Day to day that means:

• Core customer-facing and business systems owned as products, with roadmaps and named owners, rather than projects nobody looks after once they go live
• Supplier relationships at roadmap level: influencing what gets built
• A legacy on-prem data warehouse that has to move, and the decision about where it moves to
• A cloud integration landscape currently built and held by third parties, that needs to come under proper ownership

What you’ll need You don’t have to be hands-on any more. You do need to be able to hold your own in a technical conversation about:

• Data pipelines and ETL/ELT tooling, such as Azure Data Factory or the equivalent elsewhere
• Integration services, such as Logic Apps or an iPaaS platform
• Event-based messaging, such as Azure Service Bus or a similar queue or event platform
• Modern data platforms, and the trade-offs between something like Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake

The environment is Microsoft-led, so Azure experience is the closest fit, though strong AWS or Google equivalents are worth a conversation.

You’ll also need to have led a small team, worked in a multi-site organisation, and be comfortable that budgets here are earned through business cases rather than handed out.

• Analytical Thinking (Solving)
• Business Requirements
• Business Software
• Customer Relationship Management (Marketing)
• Database Administration (Administration)
• Databases
• Leadership and Management (Certhe)
• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft Dynamics
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Analyst)

Coventry | Hybrid, 2 days on site | £70,000 - £80,000 | Permanent Benefits include a generous holiday allowance plus bank holidays, employer pension contribution, life assurance, an optional healthcare cash plan, 24/7 GP access and employee assistance, retail discounts and cycle to work.

A new leadership role, in a technology function being rebuilt from the ground up. Our client is a well-known UK organisation serving a large customer base. Technology has sat quietly in the background for years. That’s changing: a new technology director is in post, the function has been restructured around build, run and change, and this is the role that owns build.