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Congleton, Gb

Hamilton, Bermuda, Bm

Afiniti is the world’s leading applied artificial intelligence and advanced analytics provider. We transform the way humans interact to create better outcomes. Afiniti solutions are built on machine learning and AI developed over 16+ years and are focused in the large scale contact centre environment where they deliver significant revenue and operational improvement for clients.SVP Information Technology role is accountable for our central data analytics, reporting and information services alongside delivering world class IT systems to our global colleagues across 15 countries.

Hamilton, Bermuda, Bm

Afiniti is the world’s leading applied artificial intelligence and advanced analytics provider, which transforms the way humans interacts by pairing individuals on the basis of behaviour.Global Delivery Lead accountable for pre sales, delivery and in life operations for U.K. clients.Solution involves core applications, artificial intelligence engine and models, data infrastructure and security platform.

Salford, England, Gb

Technology leadership role defining the strategic technology direction and influencing business strategy towards a truly digital set of outcomes. Responsible for the strategic technology architecture with direct accountability for the definition and delivery of our strategic digital transformation programmes which will see us transition from a traditional systems strategy to a focus on customer experience, agility and business optionality within our systems delivery.

Warrington, Cheshire, Gb

Priorities include:Providing strategic technical IT leadership to all parts of the organisation.Defining a holistic companywide digital strategy, engaging stakeholders and leading its development and implementation.Exploring and defining the parameters for bi-modal IT operation.Leading IT systems Market Readiness work streams ahead of OpenWater competition.Providing architectural and strategic leadership to business and IT transformation programmes.Leading a 50 strong architecture and design team delivering architecture, projects and strategy.Managing and maintaining key IT supplier relationships

London, Gb

A diverse role with three key delivery domains 1) Providing architecture and strategy leadership within Enterprise Services, as part of the extended leadership team.2) Directly supporting Head Office / Group Corporate Functions (Brand & Marketing, Internal Audit, Corporate Secretariat) as their technology partner. 3) As workspace Transfromation Lead developing a team delivering collaboration tools and innovation to colleagues globally across the organisation. These include Interactive “Smart” whiteboards, Webex and other unified communications and desktop collaboration technologies and "Chat" solutions for business functions. A strategic theme within the role is to apply collaboration technologies to business facing and operational challenges to optimise the customer experience and deliver direct measurable business savings and improvements.

London, Gb

Providing leadership and strategic direction for optimisation and transformation initiatives focused on the remediation of legacy infrastructure and applications as well as optimisation of the technology estate and data centres. Member of the legacy Infrastructure and application programme leadership team, driving the delivery of high quality asset and configuration discovery, tracking and analysis.

London, Gb

Responsible for review and approval of all project IT architectures (Software, Hardware and Integration). And the coordination of architectural standards compliance and governance for all UK Barclays projects.

London, Gb

Enterprise Architecture and strategy delivery, covering Microsoft and infrastructure strategy, project review and product selection guidance as well as business unit strategic initiative support.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Delivering sales account management, pre and post sales technical support and evangelism to major UK Retail customer account group. Energising and engaging customers with the full Microsoft portfolio and working to understand their business needs and gain the maximum benefit and return on their portfolio.

Houston, Texas, Us

Over 10 years through two merges and three great companies (Dec, Compaq, HP) delivering systems integration, architecture and design consultancy in a number of roles, covering a variety of industry segments including (Finance, Utilities, Public Sector). Projects included infrastructure and application systems integration, CRM, contact centres and large scale data centre deployments, desktop and end user as well as high performance, high availability and fault tolerant computing design as well as developing new service offerings.

Houston, Texas, Us

Over 10 years through two merges and three great companies (Dec, Compaq, HP) delivering systems integration, architecture and design consultancy in a number of roles, covering a variety of industry segments including (Finance, Utilities, Public Sector). Projects included infrastructure and application systems integration, CRM, contact centres and large scale data centre deployments, desktop and end user as well as high performance, high availability and fault tolerant computing design as well as developing new service offerings.

Over 10 years through two merges and three great companies (Dec, Compaq, HP) delivering systems integration, architecture and design consultancy in a number of roles, covering a variety of industry segments including (Finance, Utilities, Public Sector). Projects included infrastructure and application systems integration, CRM, contact centres and large scale data centre deployments, desktop and end user as well as high performance, high availability and fault tolerant computing design as well as developing new service offerings.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc Hons), Computer Information Systems

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