National Lead - Driving Marketing Technology Platform

Job Purpose :

- Lead the delivery function within marketing technology Platform life cycle management & platform feature sets

- Manage an external partner ecosystem of platform providers & developers.

KEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

DELIVERY :

- Identify, scope out and deliver new platforms for marketing related initiatives

- Undertake all initiatives around building new capabilities and functionalities in existing and new platforms

- Work directly with external developer agencies to deliver new capabilities

- Manage platform roadmap and life cycle for all marketing platforms

- Create test use cases to leverage features of existing platforms 

- Manage development and delivery of technology solutions

- Support and deliver IT and Technology Development Strategy

- Ensure that technology solutions are fit-for-purpose and aligned with architectural principles, standards and roadmaps

- Consider financial impact of technology solutions, with a view to delivering value to our customers

- Develop coding and development standards, ensuring solutions are suitably assured and of quality. Understand business requirements

- Provide technical leadership and innovation across all aspects of technology development

- Develop and maintain effective ways of working throughout the department and organization

- Lead transition of solutions to outsource partner and into live service, where applicable

- Provide support and mentoring to technical team leads, including talent and succession planning 

- Lead and manage technical delivery resources

EXPERIENCE : 

- 10-12 years experience in Technology with at least 6-8 years of experience in delivery on various content management systems

- At least 4 years of experience in Oracle Web Center ; Hands-on experience in project delivery across a suite of enterprise marketing platforms

- Previous experience in managing large scale implementations involving multiple partners ; Relevant experience in UI/UX will be a desirable plus.