Head of IT at Willers Solutions

Role: Head of IT
Location: South East 

Job Description

• Establishing the organization's technical vision and leading all aspects of technological development, including strategic direction and future growth.
• Developing and maintaining the overall framework of IT policies, standards, and strategies that will empower businesses and people to deliver on their commitments to the strategy and budgets
• Setting up IT guidelines in structural management for the entire IT infrastructure which involves computers, peripheral devices, telecommunications, servers, and the internet.
• Directing the development and execution of a firm-wide cybersecurity program that protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the organization's information and systems meeting regulatory, governmental, partner, and organization expectations
• Ensure that the organization's technical problems are resolved in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Identifying technology trends and evolving social behavior that may support or impede the success of the business.
• Supervising vetting and procurement of all technology-related outsourced services.
• Establishing and fostering a mature IT team culture via a policy-driven approach with documented and repeatable processes, the reward for innovative and repeated success, and a team approach to new initiatives and issue resolution
• Working to drive technology goals for the organization's trading systems and ensuring effective and collaborative processes within trading including continuous improvements of trading
• Managing and driving the organization's cloud strategy
• Maintaining knowledge of current and emerging information technologies, and voice and data communications
• Improving and driving SAGE and other application projects from IT 
• Defining IT Policies to meet business objectives; periodically monitor and review IT Policies to align with business objectives.
• Assessing IT risks and alerting stakeholders to take informed business decisions.
• Periodically connecting with Line Managers to understand and fulfill their function level challenges, dependent on IT function
• Other tasks as directed by your line manager

Qualification

• B.Sc / M.Sc in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field
• Minimum of 10 years experience in Information Technology, 4 of which are managerial and strategic
• Experience in online platform development and payment, automation of business solutions etc.
• Proven track record of cybersecurity oversight and program development
• Keen business acumen and proven executive management abilities base on prior experience.
• Knowledge of the latest industry trends.
• IT Infrastructure experience within the last 5 years
• Ability to think and act strategically and proactively