Technical Lead

Job title: Technical Lead

Department: Information & Technology

Contract Type: Permanent

Grade: 8

Salary: £49,803 to £58,613 per annum inclusive of London Weighting

Location: Bloomsbury 

Hours: 35 hours

SOAS University of London is the leading Higher Education institution in Europe specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East.  SOAS University of London is positioned to play a leading role in reimagining higher education globally, with a new strategic plan in place as the basis for the renewal and revitalisation of the School which commits SOAS to both student responsiveness and research intensity. SOAS is moving towards a new model of international partnerships which is responsive to the transnational character of our global challenges.

This role will ensure best practice in team management and leadership ensuring your team understand and are empowered to deliver their objectives. This will require an understanding of when to lead from the front using your experience and knowledge to ‘get hands-on’, but also when to handover and devolve tasks and ensure these are delivered to a high standard.

The role will be the lead for the delivery of Audio Visual projects including design, delivery and transition-to-live to the front-line services as the first point of support, but also remaining available for escalation or as burst resource during peak times in support of colleagues.

This role will evolve our endpoint management via Intune ensuring more knowledge sharing across the team to alleviate single points of knowledge and to provide support to colleagues.