Director of IT
hace 22 horas
Carlisle
Are you ready to shape and lead a digital strategy that drives real operational and commercial impact across a complex organisation? Do you bring the leadership to modernise IT infrastructure, deliver transformation, and embed a true digital-first culture? Can you balance strategic vision with hands-on delivery, ensuring systems, security, and service performance all operate at their best? Working closely with senior leadership and operational teams, this role will focus on leading the overall IT function and shaping digital strategy across a complex organisation. You would play a key role in ensuring technology infrastructure, systems, and digital capabilities effectively support operational delivery, user experience, and long-term strategic goals. Key Responsibilities: • Leading the development and execution of a forward-thinking IT and digital strategy aligned to wider organisational objectives, • Overseeing IT infrastructure, systems, and service delivery to ensure reliability, security, and scalability, • Driving digital transformation initiatives across systems, platforms, and user engagement tools, • Ensuring robust data governance, cybersecurity, and compliance with relevant regulations and best practices, • Managing vendor relationships, procurement processes, and third-party technology partners, • Implementing disaster recovery, business continuity, and risk management frameworks, • Enhancing IT service delivery through performance monitoring, user training, and continuous improvement initiatives, • Collaborating with senior stakeholders to embed a digital-first culture and support organisational change, • Leading, mentoring, and developing internal IT teams to build capability and succession, • Managing budgets, resource planning, and long-term technology investment strategies What We're Looking For: • Proven experience in a senior IT leadership or Head of IT / IT Director-level role, • Strong background in developing and delivering IT and digital strategies within complex environments, • Experience overseeing infrastructure, cloud platforms, enterprise systems, and service delivery functions, • Solid understanding of cybersecurity, data protection, governance, and compliance frameworks, • Track record of delivering digital transformation and driving organisational change, • Experience managing budgets, vendors, and external technology partners, • Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence at senior leadership level, • Experience building, leading, and developing high-performing IT teams, • Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational delivery and continuous improvement For more information, please contact Scott McGowan.