Senior Technical Lead

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.

UCL's Data Safe Haven (DSH) is a service which provides a ISO 27001 technical certified solution for storing, handling and analysing identifiable data. The service currently resides on on-premise servers and uses Citrix technologies and Active Directory to provide a secure remote desktop to access this data.

The service is due to be migrated to Azure where it will use Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and managed with Nerdio. File storage and supporting infrastructure will also need to be migrated to the new environment.

The migration to the new system is time critical and the postholder will be dedicated to ensuring the migration is completed successfully on schedule liaising with users with varying requirements.

*For full information relating to the role please revert to the formal job description attached to the role*

The postholder will require extensive experience across the following:

Large scale IT migration projects

Windows Server

Entra ID

Azure Technologies and AVD

Enterprise storage solutions

Unix platforms (Linux preferred)

Any of the following technologies would be advantageious:

GoAnywhere

PostgreSQL/MySQL

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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.