Head of IT Systems

Salary: £66,000 – £78,000 per year

Head of IT Systems

(Electronic Health Records used to advance Clinical Trials and Drug Development)

Basic Salary – £66,000 – £78,000(Neg) with bonus and package

Home based role with access to prestigious offices in the Manchester area circa 1-2 times per month

Solution — The “data” held within Electronic Health records is analysed and interpreted by software and that is subsequently used as a service that advances drug development. The data is used to direct research and deliver tangible benefits to research-based companies – BIG PHARMA developing new pharmaceutical products / drugs. The solutions afford clinical customers a real time “live” searchable database that provides a wealth of information to assist companies’ developing pioneering lifesaving drugs and devices cutting development time, saving money, and impacting the health of millions globally. Their technology connects electronic health records (EHRs) across primary and secondary care, and enables rapid patient recruitment, reduces clinical trial development time and costs. It also increases responsiveness to patient safety through near real-time monitoring. This technology could be applied to any established health economy across the globe. This has the potential to change the way that clinical trials are conducted in the future by ensuring drugs get to market faster and therefore improving patient outcomes.

Role —

Across projects and business functions, our clients a fully data driven organisation. They are now looking for an exceptional, self-led, Head of IT Systems who will lead a new team to help us implement new technologies for infrastructure improvements, security enhancements, system administration and internal reporting solutions.

This is a fantastic opportunity to take a significant role in delivery of innovative projects, while working with new technologies in a stimulating environment.

Key Responsibilities:

* Work closely with other Heads of Teams to support various projects across the organisation

* To lead and develop a new team within the business to deliver and support IT services, business continuity, system administration and delivery of large projects to time and budget

* To manage large scale migrations of infrastructure and corporate IT systems

* To oversee the implementation of security improvements as part of continuous improvement, to reduce risk, maintain accreditations e.g., ISO27001, and attain new data security standards e.g., NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit

* To play a key role in internal and external audits, working closely with the Quality Team to provide information and respond to client requests

* To manage the team to deliver internal business intelligence reports that bring together financial, resource, project, and roadmap data

* To manage regular internal disaster recovery and business continuity testing, contribute to the Information Security Policy, and oversee regular penetration testing of NWEH systems and applications

* To ensure appropriate tools, processes and practices are used in the management of company infrastructure and corporate IT systems

* To attend and present recommendations to Technical Steering Group for improvements to IT services across the business

Candidate Requirements

* Degree in computer science or equivalent industry computing qualifications

* Minimum 5 years’ experience working with corporate systems

* Minimum 5 years’ experience of line management and leading a team of at least 3 IT professionals

* Sound understanding of the principles of cyber security

* At least 3 years hands-on experience working with Azure Cloud

* Good working knowledge of at least two of the following: SQL, SSIS, PowerShell, PowerBI, Active Directory, Jira and Atlassian tool suite, VMWare

* Experience of designing and managing networking infrastructure to support IT services

* Experience of service fulfilment using IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS resources

* Willingness to undertake professional development

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desirable skills

* Experience of at least one of the following: Azure BI stack, ISO standards of cyber security and business continuity management systems, data warehousing, Redgate tools, data analysis and curation

* Experience of working with NHS-Digital or other national healthcare data

* Experience of working in a validated computer system environment