We're National Broadband Ireland, delivering the largest telecommunications project in Irish history. Our goal is to transform the country's broadband landscape by providing quality, affordable high-speed internet to all areas of Ireland where it's not commercially available.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead a team responsible for designing, developing, implementing, and managing NBI Systems, Software Applications, hosting requirements, and internal ICT business needs.
* Manage the development and deployment of high-quality new applications, and/or evaluate, install, configure, and deploy new applications, systems software, products, and/or enhancements to existing applications.
* Ensure IT technology functions operate effectively and efficiently with necessary security and business continuity plans in place.
* Ensure applications meet business requirements and system goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify and resolve systems issues.
* Ensure all corporate and contractual obligations, policies, and procedures are understood and followed by the IT team and implemented across the entire business.
* Ownership and management of all IT budgets with the objective of actively targeting cost improvements while maintaining quality and delivery goals.
* Lead and deliver large-scale system enhancements or new deployments as required by business users or to deliver strategic objectives aligned with process improvements or operational efficiencies.
* Review and analyse existing applications and hosting structure/usage effectiveness and efficiency, and develop strategies for improving or leveraging these systems.
* Ensure effective research and testing of new software programs and applications in support of addressing system, customer, or user issues, working with those undertaking analysis and design, and system owners.
* Ensure that any new software integration into the company systems meets functional requirements, system compliance, and interface specifications.
* Monitor incident trends and anticipate potential problems for proactive resolution.
* Use initiative to propose solutions to strategic and operational problems and identify opportunities for collaborative activity, including innovation to further the strategic aims of NBI.
* Manage and provide direction for the IT team in support of business operations. Motivates, develops, and coaches IT team to ensure best performance at all times.
* Develop and maintain good relationships with clients and suppliers as well as key partners and stakeholders.
* Strives for efficiencies and process improvements within the IT systems, Licensing and hosting overheads, and/or to support operational requirements.
* Working with our IT Enterprise Architect and ICT Partner ensuring our Enterprise and Office IT solutions are best in class, capable of meeting Customer Requirements and Quality of Service, and roadmaps are developed and maintained to ensure solutions remain state of the art.
* Participate in the Company's security committee, liaising in particular with the CSO, Director for Risk Management, and DPO in relation to information security matters.
* Responsibility for developing, implementing, and monitoring a strategic, comprehensive enterprise cybersecurity and IT risk management programme that meets the Company's information security strategy.
* Ensure implementation of disaster recovery, backup procedures, and information security and control structures to protect company data and infrastructure.