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Faculty Computing Manager

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
£56,060 - £64,405 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance plus £5,000 market supplement
Closing date
9 May 2021

Job Details

Faculty Computing Manager

Job ID: 017885

Salary: £56,060 - £64,405 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance plus £5,000 market supplement

Posted: 08-Mar-2021

Closing date: 09-May-2021

Business unit: Natural & Mathematical Sciences

Department: NMS Faculty Office

Contact details: Matt Penn, matt.penn@kcl.ac.uk 

Strand Campus   Professional and support services    


Job description
We seek a technical leader to manage the Faculty Computing Team in Natural and Mathematical Sciences. The Faculty of Natural and  Mathematical Sciences is home to the Chemistry, Engineering, Informatics, Mathematics and Physics departments at King's. The Faculty Computing Team provides specialist technology support in the delivery of education and research across these computing heavy departments.

The ideal candidate will have a broad background of technical experience covering infrastructure and end user technologies, in particular Linux and open-source solutions. The Faculty is growing and seeks someone with a strategic vision that allows technical innovation and scalable operations. They should be an excellent communicator able to effectively work with technically savvy academics and inexperienced users alike.

The NMS Computing Team is responsible for providing end user support for education and research within the departments. It also includes a small development team which maintain a number of in-house applications and infrastructure platforms. The role will also work directly with colleagues in King's central IT and e-Research functions to deliver the Faculty's technical and functional requirements from central platforms and services.

This post will be offered on a full-time, indefinite contract.


Key responsibilities

  • Full management responsibility for Computing Team of 11 people (of which 4 are direct reports), ranging from junior ops staff to senior developers
  • Develop and deliver computing strategy for the Faculty
  • Generate ideas for value adding technology projects and manage these end to end from governance structure approval to delivery
  • Full responsibility for computing services across the faculty, ensuring that services provided are reliable and users are satisfied
  • Work closely with academic and professional services leaders, and ensure that support is provided for all staff across the Faculty
  • Act as an effective “go to” person for senior management, heads of department and academic and professional services staff across the Faculty for all computing issues
  • Become a key contributor to senior technology committee structures within King's central IT and e-Research functions, advocating effectively for the Faculty's technology requirements
  • Provide a local interface to central IT and e-Research functions
  • Provide strong high level technical and operational leadership to the team, ensuring a clear strategy with management buy-in
  • Design and implement policy and process for Faculty computing operations
  • Lead response to any critical computing incidents
  • Own computing risk and BCP management within the Faculty
  • Hire, train, develop and retain team of excellent computing
  • professionals at all levels of seniority
  • Full responsibility for the documentation, maintenance and development of Faculty computing applications and infrastructure systems
  • Plan and deliver annual Faculty computing budget
  • Undertake other projects as required by the Dean of Faculty, Faculty Computing Committee Chair and Faculty Operating Officer

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

Skills, knowledge, and experience
Essential criteria

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Physical or Applied Sciences
  • Strong ability to identify operational inefficiencies and address them with technology solutions
  • Track record of leading successful technology teams
  • Track record of taking technology projects from inception, through governance approvals to delivery
  • Broad technical knowledge including: Linux, software development, storage, networking, Windows
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills to a variety of audiences
  • Development and execution of technical and operational strategic road maps
  • Track record of good hiring and retaining technical staff, staff development, performance management and effective team structuring
  • Running projects with large logistical element, e.g. office and/or data centre moves, large hardware refreshes
  • Ability to persuade, influence and build consensus among a variety of stakeholders
  • Comprehend new technologies quickly, effective management of highly technical staff, establishing balance of trust and technical oversight
  • Ability to operate teams with minimal supervision from upper management 

Desirable criteria

  • Good understanding of DevOps/SRE philosophies
  • Software development and/or configuration management experience (python, Puppet, Ansible, etc) 
  • Building cultures of growth and innovation
  • Budget management
  • Technical change and incident management
  • Producing e-mail communications and documentation pages for large audiences 

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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