Job Description

Ref Number

B01-05156

Professional Expertise

IT and Digital

Department

Vice-President (Operations) (B01)

Location

London

Working Pattern

Full time

Salary

68,284-76,244

Contract Type

Permanent

Working Type

Hybrid

Available for Secondment

No

Closing Date

13-Oct-2025

About us

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Information Services Division (ISD) is the primary provider of IT services to UCL. We support and enhance learning, teaching, research and administrative processes by providing information- and technology-related services to over 50,000 staff and students of UCL and associated institutions.



Our ambition is to be the leading IT services group in the HE sector and we are growing our team's capability in experience/UX, agile development, security, cloud, service management and partnering. We are modernising our technology foundations, digitising the processes of the university to transform experience for students and staff, and partnering across the university to drive differentiation in UCL education and research.



Within ISD, Architecture works broadly across UCL to understand the organization and its strategies. Analyzing gaps, deficiencies or opportunities then co-designing vision. Architecture ultimately works with the UCL delivery community to establish roadmaps to a common understanding of the future state.

About the role

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Within ISD, Enterprise Architecture works broadly across UCL to understand the organization, its strategies, motivations, systems, processes, and data.


The Senior Student Architect will work with the UCL delivery community analysing gaps, deficiencies, and opportunities predominantly, but not always, in the student space.



You will establish current state, develop common understanding of the future state, and help produce roadmaps that move our university towards our shared goals.

About you

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As a Solution Development/Architecture professional, you have knowledge of student lifecycle, systems, and processes in a Higher Education setting. With your exceptional interpersonal skills you're able to encourage a collaborative and team working environment as well as facilitate strong working relationships with colleagues and negotiate when required.


Additionally, you're organisationally savvy and have an understanding of an enterprise's political climate and how to navigate, influence and persuade senior stakeholders.



You also have relevant experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including:


technical architecture network management application development middleware database management or operations.

What we offer

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As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:


41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days) Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan Immigration loan Relocation scheme for certain posts On-Site nursery On-site gym Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.



We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce.



These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women