Group Head of Environment and Planning

About the team

If you are interested in joining a busy IT department that is rising to meet the needs of an evolving post‑merger environment then this could be the right role for you.

You will manage a platform technology team which consists of Platform Engineers and have access to the wider design teams to support the co‑ordinated design, additionally you will have a resource planning function that works in collaboration with programme and project managers to incorporate the low level designs into technical and resource requests, and a capacity planner who would be looking ahead to identify constraints and conflicts.

You will ensure there’s effective, efficient and collaborative working relationship between teams and that they share a common purpose.

We value diversity highly across all the teams within the group and are keen to interview people from all backgrounds and genders. Even if you don’t hit all of the criteria, we are still keen to hear from you.

OSB Group is a leading specialist mortgage lender, primarily focused on carefully selected segments of the mortgage market. Our specialist lending is supported by our Kent Reliance and Charter Savings Bank retail savings franchises. Diversification of funding is provided by sophisticated securitisation platforms. OSB’s unique cost‑efficient operating model is supported by our wholly‑owned subsidiary OSBIndia.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to ensure the environments to deliver technology is scalable, easy to deploy, and cost‑effective to manage. They will also be accountable for low level solution design, working alongside the architectural function to drive enterprise‑ready solutions that are fit for purpose taking into account integration, capacity and environmental requirements to ensure future change is simpler to implement.

The role will also be critical to the business change function essential to the organisation and will be seen as a technical expert within their field, this would result in extensive involvement in project planning for future services as well as maintenance and upgrade planning for existing. This role holder would be expected to provide technical assurance for all changes within the remit of their technology tower and be accountable for the stability within their technologies.

You will be responsible for ensuring that the capacity, configuration, versioning and alignment of all associated systems, components, applications, services etc. are known, maintained and updated for utilisation across the stack by a variety of teams. You’ll also be accountable for the non‑production environments including their suitability for changes, consistency and stability.

• Responsible for OSB’s non‑production and production environments to ensure parity and reduce risk for deployments
• Manage dependencies between components and the ripple effect of changes across the tech stack
• Communicate and coordinate the impact of all changes across OSB’s non‑production and production environments to both technical and non‑technical resources
• Provide ongoing support to functional business areas in relation to configuring and baselining environments
• Deliver solution designs that form project delivery tasks and ultimately create configuration documents utilising a consistent approach; that aligns to SMART
• Maintain a Configuration Management (CM) database
• Lead, update and recommend improvements to existing configuration management processes and procedures based on latest trends and efficiencies
• Conduct capacity forecasting and modelling exercises to minimise disruption.
• Through the Dev Ops and Engineering teams manage enhancements to the Configuration Management tools
• Review, analyse and present resolutions to configuration challenges and issues
• Work with Dev Ops, Engineering, Service Delivery & Test to define OSB’s non‑production environment strategy on GCP
• Manage 3rd party relationships with technology providers
• Estimate, prioritise and deliver agreed changes to environments
• Monitor and track environment usage, performance and cost environment capacity planning
• Review current environment…