Associate Director Of Technology (Deputy Director)

De Montfort University (DMU) is a vibrant, globally minded institution, renowned for its commitment to providing an exceptional educational experience and fostering a supportive, inclusive environment. Our university is driven by a mission to make a positive impact on society through innovative teaching, research, and community engagement. At DMU, our mission is to be recognised as a leading university creating an inclusive and personalised experience that will transform our communities and allow our students and staff to thrive.
At DMU we are transforming our Technology Directorate, we want to provide a strategic, transformational, and university-wide approach to digital technology and innovation through creating a modern technology workforce that can design and deliver services to enable next generation learning, teaching, research and drive innovation across our organisation.
The role
The Associate Director of Technology is an exciting new leadership opportunity, working closely with Director of Technology Transformation, and in partnership with the wider leadership team to shape our future technology strategy, landscape and maturing our enterprise capabilities across Architecture, Engineering, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and Automation to support the University's ambitions of delivering adaptable, digitally inclusive, resilient, secure an technology enabled services to students, colleagues and partners.
As a key leadership role, you will be fundamental to supporting our transformation and adoption of new technologies. Combining your passion for design, architecture, automation and emerging technology, you will utilise your exceptional relationship-building skills, to bring our vision for the future to life. Working collaboratively across the organisation at both a strategic and hands-on level, you will explore technology solutions that bring innovation and agility to the way we deliver services today and in the future.
About you

• A strong background in technology leadership roles with passion and experience of delivering and transforming technology services across complex organisations.
• Experience of developing and embedding architecture capabilities at Enterprise, Business, Data and Cyber level within large multi-technology environments
• Demonstrable experience of driving and championing new ways of working at scale across multiple products and services
• Extensive experience of working collaboratively with Senior leadership colleagues and managing change across technology and non-technology stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with colleagues at all levels of an organisation, whether non-technical or technical
• An understanding of the complexities of working within a Higher Education environment is desirable but not essential.

At DMU, we are committed to creating an environment where our employees enjoy working. We strive to reward and recognise your contributions, but also know that you have life beyond work. DMU offer a comprehensive set of rewards, benefits and services staff can take advantage of, including:

• Competitive salary of up to £80,000 - £90,000 per annum, dependent on experience
• 35 days annual leave plus bank holidays and University concessionary days (approx 13 extra days each year)
• Generous pension scheme (Local Government Pension scheme)
• Flexible, hybrid working arrangements
• Health cash plan
• Childare Vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted gym membership

HAYS Technology have been retained by De Montfort University to manage the search and recruitment of this role. For all enquiries, please contact Joel Mundy or Hayley Heath at Hays Technology.
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