IT Head

Job Description : IT HEAD IRELAND As the Head of IT, you will lead software engineering teams and spearhead technology development, fully understanding the pivotal role technology plays in propelling business growth and fostering long-term differentiation. Collaborating with senior management, product teams, sales, and technical support, you will create and deliver products and services rooted in data-driven insights that cater to the crucial needs of our customers. This is an exceptional opportunity to support the company's growth objectives, driving future product strategy and vision while fostering a culture of top-tier software delivery. Main Responsibilities & Duties: Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders, including senior management, product management, sales, and delivery teams, to identify new product opportunities. Lead technical engagements with new and prospective clients to understand their needs and propose innovative solutions. Foster growth in the IT professional services business, with a focus on serving Life Sciences customers. Lead and nurture a multi-disciplinary IT team, providing support and mentorship to team leads and managers. Develop creative solutions and functional prototypes to demonstrate proof of concepts and rapidly validate design ideas (minimal viable product). Design high-performance, high-quality, and user-centric solutions and architectural designs. Participate as a design leader in the creation of technological solutions, including the generation of design documents. Analyze and iterate architecture designs to identify issues and risks, escalating them as necessary and providing mitigation input. Engage in the full development lifecycle, encompassing requirements analysis, documentation, and design. Resolve complex technical issues through debugging, research, and investigation. Champion industry-standard concepts, practices, and procedures within your team and ensure adherence to them. Provide technical guidance to developers on program coding, testing, and best practices. Work independently and collaboratively within a geographically distributed team. Collaborate closely with DevOps to ensure the security, availability, reliability, and scalability of solutions. Communicate the product and data architecture to various groups, ensuring adherence to enterprise methodologies and standards, while emphasizing the value-added aspects. Understand and define software and hardware capacity requirements based on system or user requirements. Identify technical gaps, opportunities, or inefficiencies in architecture and the overall application development lifecycle, developing plans to address these gaps. Showcase expertise in crafting a visionary solution for the overall product architecture. Education & Experience: BSc in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related subject (Advanced degree desirable). Minimum of 15 years in an architect role and 5 years of experience in the field of Cloud Solutions and SaaS. Proven team leadership experience with approximately a 15-person team. Demonstrated appreciation for the buy vs. build approach to creating solutions. Experience collaborating with third-party resources. Track record of providing technical leadership and ensuring successful project timelines and objectives. Strong background and experience in implementing solutions on-premise or in the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP). Webservices/Microservices experience. Recent experience in software/application architecture and design of high transactional and/or distributed applications. Solid understanding of automated testing, continuous delivery, and Agile methodologies. Experience with multi-tenancy and API / SDK development. Knowledge of API management, data access, data management, data sharing, processing, and storage. Desirable: Strong working knowledge of Cloud Roadmap plans and experience in compliance-focused businesses – delivering digital solutions for compliance business use cases and adhering to frameworks and standards.

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