Head of IT

The Company is seeking a Head of IT to lead its technology function in a complex, highly regulated environment. The role spans IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, operations, application support, governance, vendor management, and change delivery. The successful candidate will strengthen service stability, resilience, recovery, and risk controls while addressing incidents, capacity constraints, and delivery priorities. They will also improve cost discipline through vendor and licence rationalisation, infrastructure efficiencies, and application simplification, while overseeing integration, migration, and operational-readiness initiatives. Candidates should have at least 15 years of IT experience, including five years in senior leadership, ideally within financial services or another regulated sector. They need hands-on knowledge of infrastructure, cybersecurity, IT operations, service management, and application support, along with strong ITIL expertise across incident, problem, change, release, asset, and configuration management. Working knowledge of cloud and hybrid infrastructure, identity and access management, networks, end-user computing, backup, disaster recovery, and security controls is required. The role also calls for experience managing vendors, contracts, licences, and cost optimisation, plus a strong grasp of governance, audit, risk, controls, and executive reporting.