Who we're looking for
We are looking for someone to help lead our transition to cloud who has been on the journey before, understands the pitfalls and can coach, inspire and motivate our colleagues throughout the business through the entire process to a successful outcome.

About Schroders
We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.
We have around 5,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.

Technology at Schroders
There's a huge amount of change going on at Schroders. Technology's shaping our business more and more, so there are many opportunities waiting to be grabbed. And because we're a big financial player, we can put hefty backing behind good ideas. We're a serious business - we have enormous responsibilities to our clients and shareholders. But just because we're suited and booted, that doesn't make us stuffy; our tech teams are friendlier and more informal than you might expect.

The base
We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We're close to our clients, in the heart of the UK's financial centre. We offer flexible working appropriate for a client solutions focussed role and facilities that include an onsite gym (a good one at that!), doctors, dentist, restaurant, coffee shop and garden balconies.

The team
You'll be part of the Enterprise Technology leadership team working closely with all technology teams across the business. Enterprise Technology leads our architecture, cloud, data, engineering and agile functions so you will join the team who are the most focused on how we move Schroders technology and technology teams forwards.

What you'll do
You will lead our central cloud team in the setting of Schroders cloud strategy for the next 3 years. Working across the business you will build on the excellent and significant work to move to cloud so far and help to pivot the entire enterprise towards a cloud first future. Running a team of cloud SME's, cloud architects, cloud engineers and cloud security consultants you will provide technical leadership and strategic direction across the whole of Group Technology, working with the various technology domains to help move their systems and services to the appropriate cloud tech. You will be responsible for ensuring good technical and security governance along with appropriate controls on costs, regulatory responsibilities and technology selection.
We have as many citizen developers within our business as we have engineers within technology. We are a data and compute hungry business who embrace data science, machine learning and innovative emergent tech and our colleagues constantly strive for more opportunity to use technology to drive business growth. You will need to support these colleagues so technology is always the enabler for them whilst ensuring our cloud capabilities will without question support systems, running investment platforms managing over GBP500bn of clients money, which must be safe, secure and robust at all times
As a member of the Enterprise Technology leadership team you will work with your senior colleagues in Architecture, Data, Engineering and Delivery to ensure that as one group we drive forwards Schroders technical capabilities, attracting and retaining the best talent, helping the business expand its formidable IP and competitive advantage in the years ahead.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need

Experience working in a technical leadership and strategy role providing cloud solutions
Proven ability in developing a visionary cloud solutions
Strong knowledge of modern engineering and agile practices
Providing technical vision for cloud adoption throughout the organisation with technical roadmaps
Significant hands on experience with both Azure and Amazon Web Services plus wider experience of other cloud vendors and hybrid multi-cloud approaches.
Deep understanding of PAAS and IAC/CAC services and how to enable them, a proponent of DevOps and CI/CD pipelines with multiple technologies.
Strong exposure to containerisation and Kubernetes EKS/AKS implementations
Agile delivery experience, especially around TDD/BDD, test automation and helping teams to shift-left
Solid interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to manage in a dynamic and global environment

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help
University degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related discipline
Strong technical skills in understanding and deploying enterprise level application systems that are scalable and complex
Understanding of recent practices including Agile methods, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Artificial intelligence & Security
Deep knowledge of the Cloud Service Provides capabilities and relative strengths (AWS, Azure, GCP, Ali)
Experience of transformation and change programs across a large technology organization

What you'll be like
You'll really enjoy working in teams with many different people
A coach and sounding board who's approachable and empathetic
Able to stand your ground without being confrontational
Down-to-earth, honest, and straightforward
A really good communicator, both in speech and writing
Really interested in new technologies and engineering approaches

We're looking for the best, whoever they are
Schroders is an equal opportunities employer. You're welcome here whatever your sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief or age.

Who we're looking for
We are looking for someone to help lead our transition to cloud who has been on the journey before, understands the pitfalls and can coach, inspire and motivate our colleagues throughout the business through the entire process to a successful outcome.

About Schroders
We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.
We have around 5,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.

Technology at Schroders
There's a huge amount of change going on at Schroders. Technology's shaping our business more and more, so there are many opportunities waiting to be grabbed. And because we're a big financial player, we can put hefty backing behind good ideas. We're a serious business - we have enormous responsibilities to our clients and shareholders. But just because we're suited and booted, that doesn't make us stuffy; our tech teams are friendlier and more informal than you might expect.

The base
We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We're close to our clients, in the heart of the UK's financial centre. We offer flexible working appropriate for a client solutions focussed role and facilities that include an onsite gym (a good one at that!), doctors, dentist, restaurant, coffee shop and garden balconies.

The team
You'll be part of the Enterprise Technology leadership team working closely with all technology teams across the business. Enterprise Technology leads our architecture, cloud, data, engineering and agile functions so you will join the team who are the most focused on how we move Schroders technology and technology teams forwards.

What you'll do
You will lead our central cloud team in the setting of Schroders cloud strategy for the next 3 years. Working across the business you will build on the excellent and significant work to move to cloud so far and help to pivot the entire enterprise towards a cloud first future. Running a team of cloud SME's, cloud architects, cloud engineers and cloud security consultants you will provide technical leadership and strategic direction across the whole of Group Technology, working with the various technology domains to help move their systems and services to the appropriate cloud tech. You will be responsible for ensuring good technical and security governance along with appropriate controls on costs, regulatory responsibilities and technology selection.
We have as many citizen developers within our business as we have engineers within technology. We are a data and compute hungry business who embrace data science, machine learning and innovative emergent tech and our colleagues constantly strive for more opportunity to use technology to drive business growth. You will need to support these colleagues so technology is always the enabler for them whilst ensuring our cloud capabilities will without question support systems, running investment platforms managing over GBP500bn of clients money, which must be safe, secure and robust at all times
As a member of the Enterprise Technology leadership team you will work with your senior colleagues in Architecture, Data, Engineering and Delivery to ensure that as one group we drive forwards Schroders technical capabilities, attracting and retaining the best talent, helping the business expand its formidable IP and competitive advantage in the years ahead.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need

Experience working in a technical leadership and strategy role providing cloud solutions
Proven ability in developing a visionary cloud solutions
Strong knowledge of modern engineering and agile practices
Providing technical vision for cloud adoption throughout the organisation with technical roadmaps
Significant hands on experience with both Azure and Amazon Web Services plus wider experience of other cloud vendors and hybrid multi-cloud approaches.
Deep understanding of PAAS and IAC/CAC services and how to enable them, a proponent of DevOps and CI/CD pipelines with multiple technologies.
Strong exposure to containerisation and Kubernetes EKS/AKS implementations
Agile delivery experience, especially around TDD/BDD, test automation and helping teams to shift-left
Solid interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to manage in a dynamic and global environment

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help
University degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related discipline
Strong technical skills in understanding and deploying enterprise level application systems that are scalable and complex
Understanding of recent practices including Agile methods, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Artificial intelligence & Security
Deep knowledge of the Cloud Service Provides capabilities and relative strengths (AWS, Azure, GCP, Ali)
Experience of transformation and change programs across a large technology organization

What you'll be like
You'll really enjoy working in teams with many different people
A coach and sounding board who's approachable and empathetic
Able to stand your ground without being confrontational
Down-to-earth, honest, and straightforward
A really good communicator, both in speech and writing
Really interested in new technologies and engineering approaches

We're looking for the best, whoever they are
Schroders is an equal opportunities employer. You're welcome here whatever your sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief or age.

Who we're looking for
A data leader who has come through the ranks of a career in technology data roles, both technical and now strategic. You will have written SQL, worked on operational database systems, implemented data warehouses and understand reporting, MI, governance and Datamodelling and the importance of MDM, data accuracy, fidelity and lineage. For the last decade, you will have embraced modern data technology and techniques and will now be a fully rounded data evangelist who is as credible to an operationally focused finance team as they are to data scientist. You will understand cloud native data technologies and platforms, data virtualisation and self-service orientated data principles. You will fundamentally understand that Schroders greatest data strengths simultaneously lie in its ability to manage its clients' money with rock solid integrity whilst at the same time fuelling the data science to generate the IP which makes it a global leader in investment management.

About Schroders
We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.

We have around 5,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.

Technology at Schroders
There's a huge amount of change going on at Schroders. Technology's shaping our business more and more, so there are many opportunities waiting to be grabbed. And because we're a big financial player, we can put hefty backing behind good ideas.

We're a serious business - we have enormous responsibilities to our clients and shareholders. But just because we're suited and booted, that doesn't make us stuffy; our tech teams are friendlier and more informal than you might expect.

The base
We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We're close to our clients, in the heart of the UK's financial centre. We offer flexible working appropriate for a client solutions focussed role and facilities that include an onsite gym (a good one at that!), doctors, dentist, restaurant, coffee shop and garden balconies.

The team
You'll be part of the Enterprise Technology leadership team working closely with all technology teams across the business. Enterprise Technology leads our architecture, cloud, data, engineering and agile functions so you will join the team who are the most focused on how we move Schroders technology and technology teams forwards.

What you'll do
Schroders is a massive data processing machine. We monitor the world's stock markets alongside macro and micro economic data to make tens of thousands of investment decisions daily. We have significant data science and research capabilities alongside continual regulatory and commercial requirements for data accuracy and excellence in all we do. The Head of Enterprise data is responsible for the development, build and execution of the Groups Enterprise Data strategy. Working with our colleagues in our Data Science, QEP, Group Technology, Investment, Distribution and Product teams you will bring together all data requirements both operational and analytical to help define the data vision and path for Schroder's over the next 5 years.

As Head of Enterprise Data you'll be leading technical direction as well as standards, governance and best practices. You'll be a source of technical expertise and will participate in strategic conversations with our engineering and data science groups alongside our business users.

You'll lead a small central team with responsibility for Datamodelling and data quality alongside our overall group data architecture.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need
Experience working in a technical leadership and strategy role providing data solutions
Proven ability in developing a visionary data solution
The ability to operate at all levels within the organisation (Business, Operations and IT) to maintain and explain the Enterprise Logical Data Model (LDM) which represents all organization data (Key Data Elements, entities, attributes and relationships) together with a suitable business definition
Experience with Cloud, Azure or AWS
Solid interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to manage in a dynamic and global environment
A solid background in the fields of data integrity, data governance, data processing, data warehousing and Business Intelligence

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help
University degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related discipline
Strong technical skills in understanding and deploying enterprise level application systems that are scalable and complex
Proven experience with modern data techniques using cloud technologies
Python and R development, Kafka and Spark, ML/DL and AI
Substantial expertise in technologies used in data streaming, Real Time processing, distributed computing, cloud computing, reporting, visualisation, analytics, machine learning and data warehousing
Understanding of recent practices including Agile methods, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Artificial intelligence & Security
Experience of transformation and change programs across a large technology organization

What you'll be like
You'll really enjoy working in teams with many different people
A coach and sounding board who's approachable and empathetic
Able to stand your ground without being confrontational
Down-to-earth, honest, and straightforward
A really good communicator, both in speech and writing
Really interested in new technologies and engineering approaches

We're looking for the best, whoever they are
Schroders is an equal opportunities employer. You're welcome here whatever your sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief or age.

Who we're looking for
A data leader who has come through the ranks of a career in technology data roles, both technical and now strategic. You will have written SQL, worked on operational database systems, implemented data warehouses and understand reporting, MI, governance and Datamodelling and the importance of MDM, data accuracy, fidelity and lineage. For the last decade, you will have embraced modern data technology and techniques and will now be a fully rounded data evangelist who is as credible to an operationally focused finance team as they are to data scientist. You will understand cloud native data technologies and platforms, data virtualisation and self-service orientated data principles. You will fundamentally understand that Schroders greatest data strengths simultaneously lie in its ability to manage its clients' money with rock solid integrity whilst at the same time fuelling the data science to generate the IP which makes it a global leader in investment management.

About Schroders
We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.

We have around 5,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.

Technology at Schroders
There's a huge amount of change going on at Schroders. Technology's shaping our business more and more, so there are many opportunities waiting to be grabbed. And because we're a big financial player, we can put hefty backing behind good ideas.

We're a serious business - we have enormous responsibilities to our clients and shareholders. But just because we're suited and booted, that doesn't make us stuffy; our tech teams are friendlier and more informal than you might expect.

The base
We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We're close to our clients, in the heart of the UK's financial centre. We offer flexible working appropriate for a client solutions focussed role and facilities that include an onsite gym (a good one at that!), doctors, dentist, restaurant, coffee shop and garden balconies.

The team
You'll be part of the Enterprise Technology leadership team working closely with all technology teams across the business. Enterprise Technology leads our architecture, cloud, data, engineering and agile functions so you will join the team who are the most focused on how we move Schroders technology and technology teams forwards.

What you'll do
Schroders is a massive data processing machine. We monitor the world's stock markets alongside macro and micro economic data to make tens of thousands of investment decisions daily. We have significant data science and research capabilities alongside continual regulatory and commercial requirements for data accuracy and excellence in all we do. The Head of Enterprise data is responsible for the development, build and execution of the Groups Enterprise Data strategy. Working with our colleagues in our Data Science, QEP, Group Technology, Investment, Distribution and Product teams you will bring together all data requirements both operational and analytical to help define the data vision and path for Schroder's over the next 5 years.

As Head of Enterprise Data you'll be leading technical direction as well as standards, governance and best practices. You'll be a source of technical expertise and will participate in strategic conversations with our engineering and data science groups alongside our business users.

You'll lead a small central team with responsibility for Datamodelling and data quality alongside our overall group data architecture.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need
Experience working in a technical leadership and strategy role providing data solutions
Proven ability in developing a visionary data solution
The ability to operate at all levels within the organisation (Business, Operations and IT) to maintain and explain the Enterprise Logical Data Model (LDM) which represents all organization data (Key Data Elements, entities, attributes and relationships) together with a suitable business definition
Experience with Cloud, Azure or AWS
Solid interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to manage in a dynamic and global environment
A solid background in the fields of data integrity, data governance, data processing, data warehousing and Business Intelligence

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help
University degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related discipline
Strong technical skills in understanding and deploying enterprise level application systems that are scalable and complex
Proven experience with modern data techniques using cloud technologies
Python and R development, Kafka and Spark, ML/DL and AI
Substantial expertise in technologies used in data streaming, Real Time processing, distributed computing, cloud computing, reporting, visualisation, analytics, machine learning and data warehousing
Understanding of recent practices including Agile methods, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Artificial intelligence & Security
Experience of transformation and change programs across a large technology organization

What you'll be like
You'll really enjoy working in teams with many different people
A coach and sounding board who's approachable and empathetic
Able to stand your ground without being confrontational
Down-to-earth, honest, and straightforward
A really good communicator, both in speech and writing
Really interested in new technologies and engineering approaches

We're looking for the best, whoever they are
Schroders is an equal opportunities employer. You're welcome here whatever your sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief or age.

Who we're looking for

We are looking for a Marketing Automation Developer with the experience and desire to help design and optimize the Marketing Automation solution which is underpinned by a core stack consisting of Pardot and Salesforce. In collaboration with our Digital Marketing process experts, we want someone who is passionate about building the tools to allow us to deliver great client engagement.

We want an knowledgeable developer who is both creative and analytical, an individual who is able to understand and articulate business challenges and/or ideas, explore them and implement the functionality safely into the Salesforce/Pardot production environment.

Working closely with business stakeholders such in Marketing, Events and Sales, you will create, develop and maintain marketing systems that increase and improve client engagement.

As an experienced developer, your integral role within the Marketing Automation team is to focus on the technical development and maintenance of systems. You will be involved in various aspects of the delivery of projects, from joining workshops to working with marketers to scope enhancements or new project concepts, delivery plans and supporting the team to provide solutions.

About Schroders

We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.

We have around 4,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.

The base

We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We're close to our clients, in the heart of the UK's financial centre. We offer flexible working appropriate for a client solutions focussed role.

The team

Distribution Technology creates and supports the applications used by our Sales, Marketing and Client Servicing teams. Our technology footprint includes applications and systems, split between vendor and in-house developed, all designed with the common objective of being digitally and data driven. Not only do we rapidly respond to the demands of the external environment and those of our stakeholders, the Distribution Technology team is strategically positioned to deliver innovative solutions.

You will work in a vibrant environment with clever minds that work on a variety of large projects. You will strive to build strong relationships with our nearshore delivery partner and drive improvements across every aspect of solution delivery, including solution analysis, design, technical development and implementation, stakeholder engagement, and roll-out.

What you'll do

Working closely with business stakeholders such in Marketing, Events and Sales to develop and configure working software which delivers real business value

Capture and analyse Pardot and associated technology requirements which can be quickly delivered using Agile delivery processes and tooling

Discover and playback innovative functionality and potential new ways to realise additional business benefits

Engage actively in Agile planning including story refinement, demos and retrospectives

Continually look for ways to improve your own skills and experience

Help us support other team members to improve their own software development skills

Assist us with the role of Scrum Master if required to do so

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need

Experience of delivering working end to end solutions using Pardot and Salesforce Sales Cloud.

Configuration of Pardot and its integration with supporting MarTech platforms, including but not limited to, Salesforce, CMS (EpiServer preferable), CDP (Tealium), BrightTalk, Events Management Platforms.

Ability to build custom integrations and user interfaces using Pardot API

A solid understating of global marketing preferences and GDPR

Knowledge and experience of building custom landing pages, custom email templates (HTML & CSS), workflows and automations, advanced lead nurturing and segmentation, A/B testing and optimization strategies.

A good understanding behind the principles and best practices of Salesforce Datamodelling, interface design, code development, and testing, and you can apply these principles in real-world dev environments.

Knowledge and experience of development tools, frameworks and programming languages, specifically required for Salesforce change delivery

Knowledge and experience of contributing to the development of technology solutions, both in house developed bespoke applications and commercially available off the shelf solutions

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help

Relevant and up-to-date Salesforce/Pardot certification (eg Salesforce Certified Pardot Specialist, Salesforce Certified Pardot Consultant)

Experience of Apex SOAP and REST web services and how to call out from Apex using SOAP and REST.

Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies, (SAFe is preferred)

What you'll be like

Self-motivated and enthusiastic

Flexible, highly curious and willing to learn

A critical thinker who's able to look at things from different angles

Great at unpicking a problem, from start to end, own and deliver the solution

Able to work under pressure, on several priorities at once, and with tight deadlines

Great at working with other people, sharing and communicating decisions

Keen to improve what we do for our clients and how we do it

We're looking for the best, whoever they are

Schroders is an equal opportunities employer. You're welcome here whatever your sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief or age.

Who we're looking for

We are looking for a Marketing Automation Developer with the experience and desire to help design and optimize the Marketing Automation solution which is underpinned by a core stack consisting of Pardot and Salesforce. In collaboration with our Digital Marketing process experts, we want someone who is passionate about building the tools to allow us to deliver great client engagement.

We want an knowledgeable developer who is both creative and analytical, an individual who is able to understand and articulate business challenges and/or ideas, explore them and implement the functionality safely into the Salesforce/Pardot production environment.

Working closely with business stakeholders such in Marketing, Events and Sales, you will create, develop and maintain marketing systems that increase and improve client engagement.

As an experienced developer, your integral role within the Marketing Automation team is to focus on the technical development and maintenance of systems. You will be involved in various aspects of the delivery of projects, from joining workshops to working with marketers to scope enhancements or new project concepts, delivery plans and supporting the team to provide solutions.

About Schroders

We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.

We have around 4,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.

The base

We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We're close to our clients, in the heart of the UK's financial centre. We offer flexible working appropriate for a client solutions focussed role.

The team

Distribution Technology creates and supports the applications used by our Sales, Marketing and Client Servicing teams. Our technology footprint includes applications and systems, split between vendor and in-house developed, all designed with the common objective of being digitally and data driven. Not only do we rapidly respond to the demands of the external environment and those of our stakeholders, the Distribution Technology team is strategically positioned to deliver innovative solutions.

You will work in a vibrant environment with clever minds that work on a variety of large projects. You will strive to build strong relationships with our nearshore delivery partner and drive improvements across every aspect of solution delivery, including solution analysis, design, technical development and implementation, stakeholder engagement, and roll-out.

What you'll do

Working closely with business stakeholders such in Marketing, Events and Sales to develop and configure working software which delivers real business value

Capture and analyse Pardot and associated technology requirements which can be quickly delivered using Agile delivery processes and tooling

Discover and playback innovative functionality and potential new ways to realise additional business benefits

Engage actively in Agile planning including story refinement, demos and retrospectives

Continually look for ways to improve your own skills and experience

Help us support other team members to improve their own software development skills

Assist us with the role of Scrum Master if required to do so

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need

Experience of delivering working end to end solutions using Pardot and Salesforce Sales Cloud.

Configuration of Pardot and its integration with supporting MarTech platforms, including but not limited to, Salesforce, CMS (EpiServer preferable), CDP (Tealium), BrightTalk, Events Management Platforms.

Ability to build custom integrations and user interfaces using Pardot API

A solid understating of global marketing preferences and GDPR

Knowledge and experience of building custom landing pages, custom email templates (HTML & CSS), workflows and automations, advanced lead nurturing and segmentation, A/B testing and optimization strategies.

A good understanding behind the principles and best practices of Salesforce Datamodelling, interface design, code development, and testing, and you can apply these principles in real-world dev environments.

Knowledge and experience of development tools, frameworks and programming languages, specifically required for Salesforce change delivery

Knowledge and experience of contributing to the development of technology solutions, both in house developed bespoke applications and commercially available off the shelf solutions

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help

Relevant and up-to-date Salesforce/Pardot certification (eg Salesforce Certified Pardot Specialist, Salesforce Certified Pardot Consultant)

Experience of Apex SOAP and REST web services and how to call out from Apex using SOAP and REST.

Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies, (SAFe is preferred)

What you'll be like

Self-motivated and enthusiastic

Flexible, highly curious and willing to learn

A critical thinker who's able to look at things from different angles

Great at unpicking a problem, from start to end, own and deliver the solution

Able to work under pressure, on several priorities at once, and with tight deadlines

Great at working with other people, sharing and communicating decisions

Keen to improve what we do for our clients and how we do it

We're looking for the best, whoever they are

Schroders is an equal opportunities employer. You're welcome here whatever your sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief or age.

Innovation and Technology Solutions (ITS)

Innovation and Technology Solutions, a section of over 100 staff, is organised in six main operational service groups - Infrastructure, Commercial Applications, Software Development, Technology for People and Place, Governance, Architecture and Assurance, and Strategic Projects. The post-holder will be a software developer with key responsibilities for the University's data exchange architecture and the curation of all our data.

Our work is at the heart of the life of our award winning University. Voted the UK's University of the Year (Times Higher Education Awards 2018), we're part of an elite group of dual intensive' universities, gold rated for teaching excellence (Teaching Excellence Framework 2017) and top 25 for research in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019.

With more than 16,000 students and more than 4,000 staff, we also rank 29th in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide. The University's digital estate and its future development will provide the power to deliver the University's ambitious aims outlined in our new Strategic Plan.

Duties of the Role

The post sits in the Enterprise Data team within Innovation and Technology Solutions (ITS).

The post holder will be responsible for developing, maintaining and upgrading the technical solutions that guarantee the timely, robust and accurate exchange of data between the corporate systems in use at the University. This includes both commercial and in-house developed applications. The majority of these data exchanges occur in MS SQL, but there are a growing number of WebAPI interfaces and a desire to move towards an Enterprise Service Bus architecture, which this role will have a responsibility for shaping.

You will have a strong understanding of the importance of data quality and an ability to liaise with data owners to understand data and correct data quality issues. You will ensure that the data held within our systems complies with the University's information management policies and is GDPR compliant. You will also be proficient in documenting data flows to a high standard, and serve as a Nexus of experience for others in the section.

The post is based at the Colchester campus. Travel to the Loughton or Southend campuses may be required.

Skills and qualifications required

The post is on the University's grade 8 but appointment at grade 7 will be considered with support to development to grade 8.

The successful candidate will hold an honours degree or equivalent level qualification/experience. You will have proven programming experience in a modern development environment and experience of business process analysis and integration system design. You will have knowledge and experience of SQL query programming and of working in the .NET framework (preferably .NET core) using C#. With all round ICT skills, a self-motivated practical approach to problem solving and integration systems development, you will have excellent communication skills enabling you to communicate effectively to a wide audience of differing levels of technical understanding.

At the University of Essex, internationalism and diversity is central to who we are and what we do. We are committed to being a cosmopolitan, internationally oriented university that is welcoming to staff and students from all countries, faiths and backgrounds, where you can find the world in one place.

To support this commitment we have our Global Forum, a staff-led network that promotes and celebrates the rich cultural diversity among Essex staff, and our Colchester campus based Faith Centre, which hosts regular services, meetings and events organised by our chaplains and faith representatives. For more information see our website

Closing date for applications: 24 March 2020

Interview date: 07 April 2020

Expected start date: as soon as possible

Innovation and Technology Solutions (ITS)

Innovation and Technology Solutions, a section of over 100 staff, is organised in six main operational service groups - Infrastructure, Commercial Applications, Software Development, Technology for People and Place, Governance, Architecture and Assurance, and Strategic Projects. The post-holder will be a software developer with key responsibilities for the University's data exchange architecture and the curation of all our data.

Our work is at the heart of the life of our award winning University. Voted the UK's University of the Year (Times Higher Education Awards 2018), we're part of an elite group of dual intensive' universities, gold rated for teaching excellence (Teaching Excellence Framework 2017) and top 25 for research in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019.

With more than 16,000 students and more than 4,000 staff, we also rank 29th in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide. The University's digital estate and its future development will provide the power to deliver the University's ambitious aims outlined in our new Strategic Plan.

Duties of the Role

The post sits in the Enterprise Data team within Innovation and Technology Solutions (ITS).

The post holder will be responsible for developing, maintaining and upgrading the technical solutions that guarantee the timely, robust and accurate exchange of data between the corporate systems in use at the University. This includes both commercial and in-house developed applications. The majority of these data exchanges occur in MS SQL, but there are a growing number of WebAPI interfaces and a desire to move towards an Enterprise Service Bus architecture, which this role will have a responsibility for shaping.

You will have a strong understanding of the importance of data quality and an ability to liaise with data owners to understand data and correct data quality issues. You will ensure that the data held within our systems complies with the University's information management policies and is GDPR compliant. You will also be proficient in documenting data flows to a high standard, and serve as a Nexus of experience for others in the section.

The post is based at the Colchester campus. Travel to the Loughton or Southend campuses may be required.

Skills and qualifications required

The post is on the University's grade 8 but appointment at grade 7 will be considered with support to development to grade 8.

The successful candidate will hold an honours degree or equivalent level qualification/experience. You will have proven programming experience in a modern development environment and experience of business process analysis and integration system design. You will have knowledge and experience of SQL query programming and of working in the .NET framework (preferably .NET core) using C#. With all round ICT skills, a self-motivated practical approach to problem solving and integration systems development, you will have excellent communication skills enabling you to communicate effectively to a wide audience of differing levels of technical understanding.

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Closing date for applications: 24 March 2020

Interview date: 07 April 2020

Expected start date: as soon as possible

In a nutshell

You'll be responsible for the PMO Team within the Technology Delivery Function in Argos Financial Services; this function is responsible for a large change portfolio and you'll lead a team of 3 PMO Analysts. The PMO function covers all governance as well as reporting, planning, RAID management, change control, finance and resource control, information and communication management.

What success looks like?

You'll support the programme across all aspects of the PMO to assist effective change delivery, this includes defining and supporting all programme governance and controls whilst ensuring adherence to our delivery methodology, standards and processes. You'll work collaboratively with stakeholders in Technology, Sainsbury's Bank & Argos Financial Services (SBAFS) and the wider Sainsbury's Argos Group to continuously improve change delivery.

What you'll be doing

Leading and inspiring a high-performing Delivery PMO team to successfully deliver customer value.
Defining and managing Delivery PMO resource requirements to deliver required change.
Managing the overall PMO function workload and responsibility apportionment across the PMO Analysts.
Designing, implementing and managing the programme governance and controls, aligning to SBAFS' methodology.
Acting as a "Centre of Excellence" for project management, providing guidance and coaching to existing or new programme resource where required.
Defining, implementing and managing the programme governance structure to support effective decision making, ensuring decisions are taken by the correct people, are based on accurate and timely information and enable mechanisms for escalations or resolving issues efficiently.
Ensuring all programme reporting requirements are met, both inside the programme and upward SBAFS-wide reporting, up to Executive and Board level.
Maintaining, tracking and reporting the programme plan including dependencies and assumptions, constructively challenging Project Managers on quality of input where appropriate.
Defining the programme's standards and process for effective risk and issue management, ensuring that this is aligned to SBAFS' risk management policy. Issuing MI on a regular basis, creating reports as required to support escalations and decision making.
Providing a secretariat function for relevant meetings and administrative support.
Defining and owning an effective process to identify, asses, monitor and implement changes on the programme within defined parameters.
Maintaining control and oversight of all SBAFS resources working across the programme, supporting recruitment and liaising with appropriate functions to manage all joiners, movers and leavers.
Owning the relationship with the programme Finance business partner on behalf of the Programme Manager, ensuring there is an effective financial control process in place, tracking the forecast spend against agreed budget, taking inputs from PMs and creating budget reports as required.
Supporting the supplier payment process and owning relationships with supplier payment teams.
Defining and owning the programme communication plan and stakeholder map.
Supporting 2nd line assurance and 3rd line audit control checks on the programme.

What you need to know and show

Experience leading & developing a PMO team is essential. Your leadership style should be enabling, empowering and authentic.
Experience of working in a Technology change environment.
Experience working on large, complex programmes.
Ideally, you will have worked within the Financial Services/Banking sector.
Experience of working with 3rd party suppliers in a primarily outsourced environment.
Knowledge in waterfall hybrid change delivery environments.
Excellent relationship management skills, including a proven ability to influence at a Senior Management level.
Exceptional communication skills, you'll have the ability to communicate effectively with anyone in any environment.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Highly competent across MS Office, including PowerPoint, SharePoint, Excel and Project applications.

Our benefits

In addition to the all- important competitive salary, pension & bonus offering, we totally get that life outside work is important to us all. So, we want to shout out some of our other great benefits???

We offer flexible working to help you achieve a good work/life balance
Opportunity to buy extra holidays is on the table
Discounts on your weekly shop, buying a laptop or sofa? We've got it covered through your Sainsburys, Argos and Habitat store discount card
Cycle to work scheme and great coffee and cake!

A little about us & our culture

As digital technology drives the financial services landscape we want to be at the cutting edge of this technology, offering award winning innovative digital products to our customers.

Technology is where we see our growth therefore we need innovators to join us and drive the next phase of our evolution.

We're a friendly bunch who collectively share a passion to make our customers' financial lives easier. As part of the wider Sainsbury's Argos Group, being one of the UK's most trusted brands, it brings our colleagues a wealth of opportunities to fulfil their potential.

Here, you can be part of something bigger and help to create a new approach that puts the customer at the heart of everything we do.

As this role involves working within a regulated environment any offer will be subject to satisfactory background checks including criminal record check, credit check, fraud check and employment references.

We know that candidates may be put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box. While we can't always accommodate every flexible working request, we do support part-time and job share roles so are happy to be asked how we can work around your availability. So if you are excited about working with us and think you can do much of what we are looking for but aren't sure if you are 100% there yet??? why not apply and see how it goes?

Here we're a proud equal opportunities employer that values diversity at every level of our business. Inclusion and Diversity are fundamental to our culture and values, fostering an innovative, collaborative and fast paced work environment that means we can build a better future for our colleagues and our customers. Everyone is welcome. Want to find out more? Then visit our Diversity & Inclusion page on our Careers site -

In a nutshell

You'll be responsible for the PMO Team within the Technology Delivery Function in Argos Financial Services; this function is responsible for a large change portfolio and you'll lead a team of 3 PMO Analysts. The PMO function covers all governance as well as reporting, planning, RAID management, change control, finance and resource control, information and communication management.

What success looks like?

You'll support the programme across all aspects of the PMO to assist effective change delivery, this includes defining and supporting all programme governance and controls whilst ensuring adherence to our delivery methodology, standards and processes. You'll work collaboratively with stakeholders in Technology, Sainsbury's Bank & Argos Financial Services (SBAFS) and the wider Sainsbury's Argos Group to continuously improve change delivery.

What you'll be doing

Leading and inspiring a high-performing Delivery PMO team to successfully deliver customer value.
Defining and managing Delivery PMO resource requirements to deliver required change.
Managing the overall PMO function workload and responsibility apportionment across the PMO Analysts.
Designing, implementing and managing the programme governance and controls, aligning to SBAFS' methodology.
Acting as a "Centre of Excellence" for project management, providing guidance and coaching to existing or new programme resource where required.
Defining, implementing and managing the programme governance structure to support effective decision making, ensuring decisions are taken by the correct people, are based on accurate and timely information and enable mechanisms for escalations or resolving issues efficiently.
Ensuring all programme reporting requirements are met, both inside the programme and upward SBAFS-wide reporting, up to Executive and Board level.
Maintaining, tracking and reporting the programme plan including dependencies and assumptions, constructively challenging Project Managers on quality of input where appropriate.
Defining the programme's standards and process for effective risk and issue management, ensuring that this is aligned to SBAFS' risk management policy. Issuing MI on a regular basis, creating reports as required to support escalations and decision making.
Providing a secretariat function for relevant meetings and administrative support.
Defining and owning an effective process to identify, asses, monitor and implement changes on the programme within defined parameters.
Maintaining control and oversight of all SBAFS resources working across the programme, supporting recruitment and liaising with appropriate functions to manage all joiners, movers and leavers.
Owning the relationship with the programme Finance business partner on behalf of the Programme Manager, ensuring there is an effective financial control process in place, tracking the forecast spend against agreed budget, taking inputs from PMs and creating budget reports as required.
Supporting the supplier payment process and owning relationships with supplier payment teams.
Defining and owning the programme communication plan and stakeholder map.
Supporting 2nd line assurance and 3rd line audit control checks on the programme.

What you need to know and show

Experience leading & developing a PMO team is essential. Your leadership style should be enabling, empowering and authentic.
Experience of working in a Technology change environment.
Experience working on large, complex programmes.
Ideally, you will have worked within the Financial Services/Banking sector.
Experience of working with 3rd party suppliers in a primarily outsourced environment.
Knowledge in waterfall hybrid change delivery environments.
Excellent relationship management skills, including a proven ability to influence at a Senior Management level.
Exceptional communication skills, you'll have the ability to communicate effectively with anyone in any environment.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Highly competent across MS Office, including PowerPoint, SharePoint, Excel and Project applications.

Our benefits

In addition to the all- important competitive salary, pension & bonus offering, we totally get that life outside work is important to us all. So, we want to shout out some of our other great benefits???

We offer flexible working to help you achieve a good work/life balance
Opportunity to buy extra holidays is on the table
Discounts on your weekly shop, buying a laptop or sofa? We've got it covered through your Sainsburys, Argos and Habitat store discount card
Cycle to work scheme and great coffee and cake!

A little about us & our culture

As digital technology drives the financial services landscape we want to be at the cutting edge of this technology, offering award winning innovative digital products to our customers.

Technology is where we see our growth therefore we need innovators to join us and drive the next phase of our evolution.

We're a friendly bunch who collectively share a passion to make our customers' financial lives easier. As part of the wider Sainsbury's Argos Group, being one of the UK's most trusted brands, it brings our colleagues a wealth of opportunities to fulfil their potential.

Here, you can be part of something bigger and help to create a new approach that puts the customer at the heart of everything we do.

As this role involves working within a regulated environment any offer will be subject to satisfactory background checks including criminal record check, credit check, fraud check and employment references.

We know that candidates may be put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box. While we can't always accommodate every flexible working request, we do support part-time and job share roles so are happy to be asked how we can work around your availability. So if you are excited about working with us and think you can do much of what we are looking for but aren't sure if you are 100% there yet??? why not apply and see how it goes?

Here we're a proud equal opportunities employer that values diversity at every level of our business. Inclusion and Diversity are fundamental to our culture and values, fostering an innovative, collaborative and fast paced work environment that means we can build a better future for our colleagues and our customers. Everyone is welcome. Want to find out more? Then visit our Diversity & Inclusion page on our Careers site -