Job Description

Job Title: Chief Designer – Infrastructure and Security

Details
Job Purpose / General Characteristics
Support the Chief Technical Officer and Chief Information Security Manager to define the strategic technical direction for Infrastructure and Security, ensuring alignment with the enterprise strategy.
Typically, role holder will be recognised as a senior technical expertoverseeing all the technical design aspects for infrastructure and security while managing a small-medium team of ICT professionals and beaccountable for the architecture and design of the security and infrastructure estate within the department.
Main Responsibilities
  • Drive forward the definition of technical strategy for Infrastructure and Security to meet the needs of the individual services and architectural platforms.
  • Provide Line Management to Infrastructure and Security Architects.
  • Provide assurancethat the technical estate is on a secure, scalable, robust and accreditable stack.
  • Responsible for Infrastructure and Security technical design and delivery assurance.
  • Support investigation and identification of new technologies and tools
  • Responsible for definition and refinement of platform Transition and Target states
  • Responsible for ensuring current state analysis of platform performed, identification and understand areas of risk, improvement and opportunities to meet technical strategy
  • Actively engage with Platform Chief Designers to ensure alignment of platform and infrastructure & security strategy and design
  • Support the Service Architects and Solution Architects in defining technical solutions to ensure they align with infrastructure and security standards and strategy.
  • Provide support on performing impact assessment for proposed business and technical changes
  • Ownership of the Infrastructure and Security roadmaps
  • Responsible for ensuring the current, transition and target technical architecture for Infrastructure and Security are documented and maintained within the Enterprise Architecture
  • Champion Best Practices and innovation.
  • Key participant and facilitator of Governance forums
  • Build and maintain relationships with senior individuals internally, external partners, stakeholders, suppliers and other relevant bodies.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
  • Relevant academic and professional qualifications or equivalent experience/capability
  • Comprehensive and recent experience designing and implementing complex IT infrastructure
  • Substantial relevant experience gained over many years across a range of infrastructure and security areas
  • Substantial relevant experience with Enterprise Architecture using TOGAF principles
  • Excellent leadership and management skills
  • Proven ability to lead technology teams to achieve shared goals and objectives.
  • Demonstrable and practical experience of change to infrastructure and systems, delivering cost savings, security and service improvements for customers.
  • Good understanding of the political environment, relevant regulations and legislative issues
  • In-depth understanding of internal and external customers/partners/stakeholders and their requirements
  • Extensive experience across all phases of the IT lifecycle including agile and waterfall project delivery methodologies.
  • Significant experience of new technology acquisition and development
  • Good understanding of developing and managing budgets and business forecasting