IT Applications Manager - Permanent - £80,000 per annum An exciting new opportunity has become available for a IT Applications Manager to come on board working for a leading global professional services firm. Overseeing the UK Digital Applications and Workplace infrastructure, which predominantly operates through cloud solutions, to ensure operations adhere to established standards while promoting KPIs, agility, automation, and optimization Provide an internal escalation point for Digital Application and Workplace issues. Monitor and maintain data processing and data integrations Partner with Architecture to drive future roadmaps Act as the Service/Product owner for all defined applications and Workplace within the team's area of accountability. Represent the area in CAB meetings, assessing impact and risk of change whilst owning the approval process Manage team training and development plans to support career and continuous development. Arrange team into optimal areas of system specialisation, whilst maintaining a broad and sustainable level of knowledge across the team and all applications Collaborate with the development/integrations/data teams to ensure supportable solution delivery and quality assure systems as they move through solution life cycle. Oversee and manage third party contracts. Deliver projects and change to improve systems manageability & supportability (in house & 3rd party) within the Change Mana...