Director of Architecture and Data

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The opportunity

University of the Arts London (UAL) is a world-leading creative University for teaching and research in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. UAL is made up of six renowned colleges and hosts several centres and institutes that further the University’s mission and social purpose, through the students and ideas we send out into the world and the partnerships we build to achieve social, environmental, and economic progress.

Digital & Technology provide a strategic and transformational University-wide approach to digital and technology, designing and delivering services to enable learning and teaching, research, innovation, with a focus on continuously improving the student and staff experiences.

The Director of Architecture and Data is an exciting new leadership opportunity, working with the Chief Digital Officer, and in partnership with the Digital and Technology service Directors, responsible for driving credibility with the business and shaping our future technology landscape, a unique opportunity to make a significant impact into how UAL operate.

This post will be critical within the wider Digital & Technology Senior Leadership team, establishing and enhancing the foundations for an Architecture practice, engaging in the development and maintenance of applications, enabling innovative and efficient solutions, creation of roadmaps, policies, process, procedures, and implementation patterns which guide strategy and execution.

The post holder will develop and mature the architecture and integrations functions in its broadest sense, planning and designing technical strategy, alongside creating competitive advantage, faster execution aligned to strategies by understanding our core competencies.

Working as part of the Digital and Technology Senior Leadership Team, the role provides an opportunity to help transform the provision of digital and technology services to exceed the Universities’ Digital and Data ambitions.

About you

• A background of working in IT senior management positions, with experience of delivering operational services
• Experience of all domains of Architecture – Business, Data, Application, Technology and Security
• Strong knowledge of Enterprise Architecture and of translating business needs into EA requirements.
• Demonstrable experience of driving and championing new ways of working at scale across multiple products and services
• Extensive experience of working collaboratively with Senior Leadership colleagues
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with colleagues at all levels of an organisation, whether non-technical or technical
• Experience of working within a Higher Education environment is desirable but not essential.

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We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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