Principal IT Operations Manager

Overview

Principal IT Operations Manager – HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd

Base salary : £61622 pa to £77028 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top of base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits – check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

About The Role

• Provide strategic leadership for the IT Operations function, encompassing IT Service Management, Application Lifecycle Management, Quality Assurance & Testing, and ensuring the effective delivery of IT services across the organisation
• Direct the development and execution of the IT Operations Strategy and roadmap, aligning service delivery with organisational goals and internal / regulatory standards
• Direct the planning, design, and continual improvement of IT Service Management practices (e.g. Incident, Request, Problem, Change, Release, and Event Management), ensuring consistent and high-quality support for end users and business critical systems
• Build and maintain a high-performing operations team, providing clear leadership and direction to managers responsible for service management, application lifecycle, and QA / testing functions
• Develop IT operational policies, procedures, and standards, ensuring they remain fit for purpose and drive operational resilience, efficiency, and quality
• Act as the senior point of contact for key IT suppliers delivering managed services, ensuring contractual obligations, service level agreements (SLAs), and performance metrics are met or exceeded. Lead regular supplier reviews and drive continuous improvement
• Lead the provision of an IT major incident management capability (24 / 7) that supports major IT incidents and high-impact service disruptions, ensuring effective coordination, stakeholder communication, timely restoration of service, and robust post-incident analysis to address root causes
• Proactively identify and address systemic challenges across the service lifecycle, championing initiatives that improve automation, service reliability, testing practices, and lifecycle governance
• Actively promotes and embeds Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI

About You

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect. It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application; however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application, ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

About Us : High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.

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