Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
CTMUHB is seeking an experienced and future thinking leader to join our team as the Head of Datacentres and Cloud. The Head of Datacentres and Cloud at CTMUHB will set the strategy for datacentres, core and edge networking, and server estate. This role also involves leading the Datacentres and Cloud function to deliver day-to-day technical services while ensuring operational stability and high-quality service delivery. The successful candidate will lead infrastructure teams responsible for enabling services across IT technology, including on-premises and cloud environments.
Interviews are planned for week commencing 21st October 2024.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement a comprehensive strategy for datacentres, networking, and server estate that aligns with CTMUHB's overall digital transformation goals.
2. Operational Oversight: Provide day-to-day leadership and management of the datacentres, ensuring high availability, security, and performance.
3. Innovation and Improvement: Lead initiatives to modernise our infrastructure, incorporating leading technologies and best practices.
4. Team Management: Lead teams of skilled professionals, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
5. Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of IT services.
About Us
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
* We listen, learn and improve
* We treat everyone with respect
* We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only the lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Job Responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
* Educated to master's degree level or equivalent demonstrable level of work experience and knowledge.
* Formal leadership training at equivalent or greater to ILM Level 5.
* Relevant Cisco, Mitel, Microsoft, VMWare qualifications and/or training.
Experience
* Leading day-to-day operational management of platforms/infrastructure in a medium to large enterprise, demonstrating technical leadership and experience in setting strategic direction.
* Proven experience in a team leadership role, successfully building, leading, or developing a team of specialist IT/Digital professionals.
* Experience of leading, planning, prioritising, and resourcing work activities at a strategic level.
* Technical experience of Public Cloud environments, Cloud Architecture/Design, and DevOps ways of working.
Skills and Attributes
* Strong budgeting and financial management skills.
* Naturally innovative ways of working and improve the use of resources.
* Ability to identify and rationalise interdependencies within a technically complex delivery environment, identifying and translating the impact of incidents, problems or changes.
Other Role Requirements
* Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards achieving this level. This is the minimum level of Welsh required.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Salary: £59,857 to £69,553 per annum (Pay award increase of 5.5% pending, due November).
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