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# Head of Technology - Shared Services

- **Company:** Leeds Building Society
- **Location:** Leeds, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, DevOps, Reliability Engineering
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobs.service.gov.uk/jobs/6ae0d785c85e5ec2da5ae660/apply

## About the Role

A strong, visible people leader who cares, connects and coaches, can win hearts and minds through sustained change, and builds capability, engagement and performance.

-Direct senior leadership experience of transforming a technology function, including its operating model, ways of working, culture, capability and organisational structure.

-A credible, confidence-inspiring senior leader with curiosity and gravitas, able to think differently, connect technology end to end and communicate a compelling strategy at every level, including the C-suite.

-Strong technical leadership across Azure cloud, networks, hosting, infrastructure, colleague systems, DevOps and automation, including introducing and owning Core platforms.

-Proven ownership of mission-critical technology suppliers and outsourced services, improving performance, strengthening partnerships and securing value for money.

-Expertise in modern infrastructure engineering practices, including site reliability engineering, infrastructure as code and containerisation.

-A track record of delivering complex infrastructure and platform programmes at scale, managing operational risk while maintaining service continuity.

-Proven success running safe, resilient services, ideally in financial services or another regulated environment, balancing risk, cost and performance while exploring AI and self-service safely.

-Strong risk and control leadership, using structured approaches and sound judgement to maintain security, resilience and regulatory compliance through significant change.

-Commercial expertise in budgets, cost optimisation, suppliers and RFPs, with a strategic, collaborative and customer-focused approach.