IT Lead

Job Title:                 IT Lead
Location:                 Various Sites - Hybrid
Compensation:       £65,000
Role Type:               Full time / Permanent
Role ID:                   SF60158

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a IT Lead at our Various Babcock sites.

The role
As an IT Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be accountable for the leadership and management of all IT provisions; service, change and stakeholder relationship management. This is an exciting role in which your input provides tangible outputs into a critical defence training programme lead by our customer Ascent Flight Training Services.

Day-to-day, you’ll act as the senior point of contact for all IT related aspects of UKMFTS contract delivery, driving communications within the user community to help them take full advantage of the service that we provide, as well as:

• Develop the service management with new ways of working with suppliers and the UKMFTS team to enhance the service for our customer.
• Provide oversight, governance, prioritisation, and direction of the UKMFTS change programme. Managing the IT portfolio at all levels, driving synergies between the BCS PMO and service delivery roles. Managing the IT portfolio and DOA approvals.
• Lead the UKMFTS IT quality agenda to ensure continual improvement, repeatable processes, and team development.
• Introduce new reporting functions to stakeholders providing efficient access to data to enable clear decision making and understanding of position.
• Provide commercial guidance ensuring that all aspects of the IT delivery comply with commercial and governance requirements.

This role is full time and is a hybrid role based at various Babcock sites. Your working from home and working onsite options will be discussed during your interview.

Essential experience of the IT Lead:

• Experience leading, designing, and executing IT activities in global, complex organisations.
• Commercial awareness and experience of the challenges of creating a successful CIS solution against a backdrop of misaligned obligations and supplier provision.  
• A track record of successfully implementing new polices, processes and strategies, from conception through to design and implementation.
• Defence Experience

Qualifications for the IT Lead:

• Degree in management or technology project management type qualification

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain SC security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer 

• Generous holiday allowance 
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme 
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave 
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock  has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 04/11/2024

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