Senior Technical Lead - Internal UCL applicants only

at  University College London

ABOUT US

Information Services Division (ISD) is the primary provider of IT services to UCL. We support and enhance learning, teaching, research and administrative processes by providing information- and technology-related services to over 50,000 staff and students of UCL and associated institutions.
Our ambition is to be the leading IT services group in the HE sector and we are growing our team’s capability in experience/UX, agile development, security, cloud, service management and partnering. We are modernising our technology foundations, digitising the processes of the university to transform experience for students and staff, and partnering across the university to drive differentiation in UCL education and research.
Portfolio and Product Delivery manage the delivery of technology led change, partnering with colleagues across UCL. We collaborate as cross functional agile teams and have core capabilities in experience, development & test, analysis and agile delivery management.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As Senior Technical Lead you’ll be part of the Development and Testing capability, helping to shape it from the ground up through your extensive technical knowledge and experience and ability to lead technical change. Working alongside Product Owners, Architects, Subject Matter Experts and teams of Developers, you’ll help to deliver against UCL’s fast moving and wide-ranging technical portfolio worth over £20m per annum, including a new integration platform, a cloud-based data lake, laboratory management software and moving large parts of UCLs on-premises application estate to Cloud. There will also be the opportunity to form some unique and exciting working collaborations with UCL’s Advanced Research Computing (ARC) and Computer Science departments for access to AI, HPC Clusters and assisting on cutting edge research at a world leading university. You will be expected to lead and mentor several developers and other technical colleagues to build a strong technical capability as well as provide design guidance and input to decompose large/complex features/problems and shape work packages for an Agile product team to deliver in some of the university’s largest and most enterprise-changing initiatives.
Job Ref: B01-03329
Closing Date: 07-06-2024 – 23:59 (UK time)

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insuranc