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

Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement a comprehensive strategy for datacentres, networking, and server estate that aligns with CTMUHB's overall digital transformation goals.

Operational Oversight: Provide day-to-day leadership and management of the datacentres, ensuring high availability, security, and performance.

Innovation and Improvement: Lead initiatives to modernise our infrastructure, incorporating leading technologies and best practices.

Team Management: Lead teams of skilled professionals, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

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 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Job description

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

Essential

• Educated to master's degree level or equivalent demonstrable level of work experience and knowledge

Desirable

• Formal leadership training at equivalent or greater to ILM Level 5
• Relevant Cisco, Mitel, Microsoft, VMWare qualifications and/or training

Experience

Essential

• 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

Desirable

• 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

Essential

• Strong budgeting and financial management skills

Desirable

• Naturally innovate 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

Essential

• Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards achieving this level. This is the minimum level of Welsh required

Employer details

Employer name

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Address

Williamstown Hub

Dinas Isaf West Industrial Estate

Williamstown

CF40 1AG

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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