Group Head of IT

Role: Group Head of IT
Location: Barnsley – Site based five days a week
Salary: £75,000 to £80,000
Benefits: Pension, Healthcare, Car Allowance, Bonus

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a strategic and hands-on Head of IT & Digital Transformation to join a fast-growing construction/manufacturing organisation and play a pivotal role in shaping its technology roadmap.

Although the company are an ambitious PLC, they have managed to maintain that family-friendly style of management that has resulted with a very low staff turnover and excellent culture.

About the Role

The Head of IT you will lead the development and execution of the organisation’s IT strategy, ensuring that systems, infrastructure, and processes are robust, secure, and future-ready. This role involves managing a small, skilled team comprising infrastructure and development, while championing innovation and delivering a group-wide transformation programme.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of the organisation’s IT and digital strategy.
• Manage and develop a small team, growing and developing their skills and accountability.
• Oversee infrastructure, communications, project management, and systems support.
• Ensure systems are secure, scalable, and compliant with regulations.
• Identify and implement innovative technology solutions and cost efficiencies.
• Maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Deliver transformation initiatives aligned with company-wide objectives.
• Achieve and maintain Cyber Essentials Plus and ISO27001 certifications.

What We’re Looking For

• We would expect you to have at least five years’ experience in an IT leadership role, ideally within manufacturing, construction or engineering.
• This is a hands-on role so we would look for you to be proficient in Microsoft OS, Azure/M365, SQL, VMware and Veeam as well as have some networking knowledge.
• On top of this we are looking for strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement abilities with a track record in delivering change and transformation projects.
• You will need to be commutable to Barnsley as this role is site based, five days a week.

Why Join them?

This is an exciting leadership role in an organisation that values forward thinking and innovation. The successful candidate will have the autonomy and support to shape the company’s digital future while making a real, lasting impact. All of this in a friendly and supportive atmosphere.

• A basic salary of £60k to £70k with an uncapped bonus scheme
• A company car/car allowance
• Pension
• Healthcare and Gym membership

• Identifying and approaching leading OEMs at Engineering and Procurement level
• Gain knowledge of upcoming projects and convince people to swap out based on price and quality
• Managing projects of between £50k and £350k per year
• Double turnover
• Manage entire sales cycle from start to finish – usually 6 months

• Have experience of selling to Engineering Managers and Technical Directors
• Be extremely hungry to make this a success
• Have a real positive “can do attitude”

Role: Software Developer - C# .NetCore, Angular
Location: Hybrid - Birmingham 2 days per week
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000
Benefits: Pension, Healthcare

Established over 30 years ago this highly innovative company are going through an interesting and exciting time with the main business system being redeveloped and redesigned into a bespoke modern solution. This system supports 3500 users across 96 member businesses.

The new platform is being developed as a scalable platform leveraging the latest technologies and robust frameworks. Data management is handled through entity framework which interacts with the SQL databases. REST API’s are used through the system as the methodology to interact with third party integrations which are key with the system.

The new system is currently being developed by a third-party but there is a requirement within the company to be more self-sufficient and bring the software development resource in house – although this may also be supplemented by third party development support also.

A full stack developer is needed to help support the ongoing software improvement / bug fixing and changes to the system as business requirements require.

The head office is based close to Birmingham Airport which has excellent motorway links (M6 / M42) and train links with Birmingham International being a 10-minute walk away from the office.

The role will be a hybrid one with two days a week in the office.

What are we looking for:

We are looking for a full stack .Net developer with at least two to three years of development experience.

Technical overview:

• Front end – Angular/TypeScript
• Back end - C# .NET core
• Deployment – Azure DevOps pipeline
• Platform design- Microservices architecture – Hosted on Azure Kubernetes service
• Data Management – Entity framework – interacting with SQL databases
• Authentication – Auth0 complimented by custom roles and permissions (RBAC) within the system

You will be the sole developer within the business, so we are looking for someone that is keen to have a key role in the development, documentation and how to take the product forward.

The company has a very friendly working atmosphere and are an organisation that embrace efficiency through technology so this will be a great opportunity for someone to make the new platform their own.

• Basic salary of £35,000
• Ongoing training and development
• Good mileage allowance
• Blue light discount
• Company pension scheme
• Well-being support and initiatives

• Manage and Lead, following CQC Guidelines and maintain compliance
• Conducting assessments and updating care plans
• Ensuring that the care provided is of highest quality and meets care needs
• Take a lead in promoting the expansion of services

• Managerial Experience within the care sector
• Good knowledge of CQC fundamental standards
• UK driving license
• Excellent communication skills
• A passion for supporting older people within the community
• A NVQ level 5 or willing to work towards one