Technology Solutions Manager

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Salary: £60,000 - £65,000
Location: Harlow with Hybrid working available, 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home per week.
About the role

As the Technology Solutions Manager, you will evaluate request and requirements received from within IT and the wider organisation and identify suitable options to meet these. Through gaining a detailed understanding of how the current systems operate and reviewing the known and emerging requirements of the foundations teams, you will map out where the gaps exist in the technology capability to meet these. In this role you will define and assert a set of core design principals that when applied will ensure solutions meet the organisations current and future needs. The primary objective of this role is to ensure that existing and future IT solutions are aligned to plans of the foundation.
What you will be doing:

What you'll be doing

• Lead discussion, develop and maintain an organisation wide technology systems strategy to support the foundations core IT activities.
• Manage key stakeholder discussions regarding renewal, replacement, or provision of new technical solutions aligned to the organisation and IT strategic objectives.
• Define the roadmap for systems supporting data, ensuring changes are aligned to meet the joint business and technology strategies.
• Manage documentation for all IT solutions in accordance with best practice in terms of delivering the key artefacts as part of the IT solutions.
• Champion the right strategic choices in terms of technology solutions, acting as the subject matter expert in IT solutions.
• Maintain appropriate Enterprise Architecture artefacts including systems diagrams, Entity Relationship Models, asset registers to aid support, change planning and traceability.
• Lead the technical oversight to business-driven solutions adhering to the enterprise architecture and data governance standards.
• Manage key delivery partners to ensure that solutions are compliant with the foundations design principals, and core values.

What will make you great in this role?

You will be passionate about making the best use of technology, keeping up to date, and learning about the latest trends in IT. You will be someone who likes to solve problems, applying your knowledge to shape the decisions around the best use of the existing and new technology. A strong team player, sharing views, knowledge, and information, contribute to team initiatives and team meetings, helping others, and treating everyone fairly and with respect.

Your experience

Must haves:

• Certified in ITIL Expert.
• TOGAF 9 certified.
• Experience of architecting solutions across hybrid cloud and on-premises data platforms.
• Excellent problem solving and modelling skills (logical, physical, semantic and integration models)
• Experience of mapping key Enterprise data entities to business capabilities and applications.

Nice to haves:

• Computer science degree.
• Six Sigma / Lean.

Reporting lines and relationships

Reports to: Head of IT & Change.

Key relationships: IT Operations & Support, Motability Directors, IT Security Manager, Heads of Department and Managers. Third party suppliers.

Direct reports: None.

Extra Information

• Job holder will be required to contribute to the identification and profiling of data related business risks.
• Requires frequent contact with managers and users throughout the Motability Foundation and the ability to communicate potentially complex and/or technical issues with staff in non-technical terms.
• The role is predominantly based In Harlow, Essex at Motability's offices. Some travel may be required for training and off-site meetings. Hybrid working from home will also factor in the role.

Motability Foundation

At Motability Foundation we fund, support, research and innovate so that all disabled people can make the journeys they choose. We oversee the Motability Foundation Scheme and provide grants to help people use it, providing access to transport to hundreds of thousands of people a year.

We award grants to other charities and organisations who provide different types of transport, or work towards making transport accessible. We also carry out ongoing research, in partnership with disabled people and key stakeholders in the industry, to inspire innovations that continue to champion accessible transport for all.

Benefits

WHAT MOTABILITY CAN OFFER YOU

A career with Motability can offer you so much more than earning potential. We pride ourselves in offering some fantastic benefits and a culture to match, some of which includes;

Holiday - 26 Days + 8 Bank Holidays, increasing to 28 days after 5 years' service

Health and Wellbeing - We offer private health care with BUPA alongside an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu vaccinations, enhanced sick pay and discounted corporate gym membership. We take your physical AND Mental Health seriously, with our dedicated mental health first aiders you will have support and understanding from your colleagues.

Family Friendly - We offer enhanced Parental Leave inclusive of Adoption Pay and we understand that families require flexibility, we provide time off for dependants, flexible working hours and the option to work from home. Life Assurance is 4 x your salary.

Diversity and Inclusion - We value everyone's unique qualities and celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels safe to be their authentic selves, no matter their age, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity or otherwise. This is embedded in to our values and we celebrate our differences and create awareness throughout the year.

Celebrating Success - We love to recognise people that go above and beyond with our Spotlight Award as well as having team celebrations and social events throughout the year.

Our culture - In the Motability office we "dress for our day", it's an incredibly welcoming and inclusive environment where we look to support your career, we offer a mini bus service from Harlow Town centre and station for those using public transport to reach us and there are plenty of free hot beverages for when you arrive.

Pension - Up to 15%, inclusive of a 10% non-contributory addition and Motability matching your contributions up to 5%.

How to find out more?

To find out more regarding the vacancy and for the full job description, please contact our Talent Team at: recruitment@motability.org.uk

Here at Motability Foundation, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or disability.

We are a disability confident employer, so please do make us aware of any reasonable adjustments you might need throughout both the recruitment process and to work with us.

We are committed to offering to interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you have applied please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability and we will offer you an interview.