Director of Platform

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Job reference 321956
Director of Platform
Competitive salary plus car allowance, healthcare annual bonus potential, 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with serve and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Permanent, Full time
185 Farringdon Road

3 x days a week In Farringdon Office.

Extra Benefits
• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It's free, and it's for everyone.
*Available only to perm employees

ABOUT THE ROLE

Director of Platform

Accountable for the successful delivery of the key strategic platforms across the Royal Mail estate. Translate business strategy and demand, into initiatives and roadmaps to deliver business value, and communicate to RM stakeholders.

Manage delivery partners for the strategic platforms, ensuring quality of delivery and with stable releases of change. Ensure that critical systems are performant and available, provide 3rd line support to critical incidents.

Champion agile ways of working, building strong internal capability and ensuring that the multiple external delivery partners deliver to consistent ways of working to achieve stable delivery and change.

Key Accountabilities:

• Own and lead delivery of the core strategic platforms - currently PDA, eBiz (website), BIG (integration) and EPS (events) but will grow as more strategic platforms are created as we move from projects to products.
• Lead and Develop team of platform owners, supporting them and ensuring effective delivery of platform development and change activities across all RM platforms
• Be effective in prioritisation of Technology Platform initiatives and funding based on strategic impact analysis and resource availability across all Platforms
• Ensure RM are not reliant on single individuals' knowledge, have adequate succession plans in place
• Deliver high-quality, and timely outputs and inputs into cross-tech reporting and governance processes, including financial and capacity planning. Establish and mature Tech Platforms to provide reusable, adaptable, shared RM wide Tech capabilities that support Product Teams.
• Own platform team funding allocated in ABRs and achieving value for money and significant ROI across all Platforms
• Partner as functional expert to advise RM TEC executive team on strategic roadmap and technical decisions
• Collaborate with Build, Business Services, and other Tech Platforms to make conscious platform design decisions that ensure cross-Tech Platforms and EP architectural excellence aligned to north-star architecture focused on modularity and extensibility.
• Partner with Cyber/Run to mobilise and manage persistently funded teams and continuously optimise their capacity, utilisation and effectiveness

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face/virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.

We don't expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

Closing Date: . Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

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