Head of Enterprise Systems Change

Location: The Francis Crick Institute, Midland Road, London

Short summary

We seek an experienced individual to lead our new Enterprise Systems Change team. This pivotal role involves overseeing the creation, integration, and maintenance of processes within operational critical enterprise applications, ensuring they support the institute’s strategic objectives. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical acumen, leadership qualities, and a comprehensive understanding of enterprise application development processes, coupled with the ability to drive innovation and continuous improvement within the team.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership and Management

• Lead and mentor a team of developers and integration specialists, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.
• Work with specialists and virtual team members from across the organisation to ensure a consistent and high-quality delivery approach.

Application Development

• Oversee the development of enterprise applications, ensuring they meet business requirements and industry standards.
• Ensure robust software development practices, including coding standards, testing, and documentation, are following and enhanced.

Application Integration

• Design and implement integration solutions that connect various enterprise applications and systems.
• Ensure seamless data flow and interoperability between systems, enhancing overall operational efficiency.

Communication

• Ensure all stakeholders are informed of relevant improvements and other change activities.
• Work with the ITO Operational Support team to ensure they have the understanding, skills and updated documentation to deliver the day-to-day run activity within these systems

 Governance and Risk Management

• Review, enhance and enforce IT policies, standards, and procedures to ensure data security and compliance requirements are met while ensuring operational efficiency remains a key objective.
• Working closely with the IT Security Operations Team, manage risks associated with IT.

Project Management and Delivery

• Manage application development and integration projects from inception to completion, ensuring scope, timeline, and budget adherence. 

About us

The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Its work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.

An independent organisation, its founding partners are the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, UCL,Imperial College London and King’s College London.

The Crick was formed in 2015, and in 2016 it moved into a new state-of-the-art building in central London which brings together 1500 scientists and support staff working collaboratively across disciplines, making it the biggest biomedical research facility under in one building in Europe.

The Francis Crick Institute will be world-class with a strong national role. Its distinctive vision for excellence includes commitments to collaboration; developing emerging talent and exporting it the rest of the UK; public engagement; and helping turn discoveries into treatments as quickly as possible to improve lives and strengthen the economy. 

• If you are interested in applying for this role, please apply via our website.
• The closing date for applications is 13/11/2024
• All offers of employment are subject to successful security screening and continuous eligibility to work in the United Kingdom.

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