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Salary: £49,931
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing date: 26/07/26
Interview date: w/c 03/08/26
About CARE
CARE International is a global humanitarian organisation leading the fight to end poverty in the world’s most challenging situations. Women and girls are at the centre of our work, because we cannot overcome poverty and inequality until all people have equal rights and opportunities. We know that when a crisis erupts, women are often the first to pick up the pieces, so we work alongside women, so they have the power to make change where it’s needed most. Founded in 1945, CARE currently works in over 100 countries and last year alone reached 53.4 million people through nearly 1,500 projects.
Why work for CARE International UK?
This is an exciting opportunity to take a lead role in shaping and securing CARE International UK’s cloud and enterprise infrastructure. As Lead Cloud Systems Administrator, you will help drive infrastructure modernisation, automation and operational excellence across a complex technology environment, ensuring our systems are resilient, secure and scalable. The role offers the chance to lead technical initiatives, influence strategic IT improvements and support the digital capability that enables CARE’s mission-critical work.
About you
You will be an experienced cloud infrastructure or lead systems administrator with strong hands-on expertise across Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Windows Server and hybrid environments. We are looking for someone with excellent troubleshooting, automation and security skills, including experience with Entra ID, Intune, networking, backup and disaster recovery, and PowerShell scripting. You will also bring strong leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to mentor others and manage competing priorities. Relevant certifications such as Azure Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect, AWS SysOps, Security+ or ITIL would be advantageous.
About the role
The Lead Cloud Systems Administrator is responsible for leading the management, optimisation and security of CARE International UK’s cloud infrastructure and enterprise systems. The role focuses on maintaining highly available and secure platforms, supporting infrastructure transformation and cloud migration activity, and ensuring effective administration of core services including Azure, Microsoft 365, Windows and Linux servers, identity services, networking, backup and disaster recovery. The postholder will work closely with the IT Manager, wider IT team and key stakeholders across the organisation, while also supporting projects, change management and technical planning.
The role requires strong technical knowledge across cloud platforms, systems administration, security and infrastructure support, alongside excellent analytical and problem-solving ability. You will need to be confident managing complex environments, improving performance through automation and standardisation, and responding effectively to incidents and vulnerabilities. Success in the role will also depend on your ability to communicate clearly, lead troubleshooting, mentor junior colleagues and take a proactive, security-first approach to continuous improvement.
Right to Work in the UK
All applicants must have the legal right to work in the United Kingdom at the time of appointment. Proof of right to work will be required as part of the recruitment process. For more information, please visit the UK Government's guidance on right to work.
Where you do not have current right to work in the UK, then this will be discussed with you as part of the recruitment process. Please note that not all roles are eligible for sponsorship and further information (should you require sponsorship to work in the UK) on eligibility can be found here.
Safeguarding
CARE International UK has a zero-tolerance approach to any abuse to, sexual harassment of or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, representatives or partners. CARE International UK expects all staff to share this commitment through our Safeguarding Policy (link here) and our Code of Conduct (link here). They are responsible for ensuring they understand and work within the remit of these policies throughout their time at CARE International UK.
Safeguarding our beneficiaries is our top priority in everything we do, including recruitment. All offers of employment at CARE International UK are subject to:
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Satisfactory references. CARE International UK participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (link here). In line with this Scheme, we will request information from successful applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.
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Appropriate criminal record checks (including a Bridger check, link here).
By submitting an application, the applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.
Equality and Diversity
We are committed to Equality and value Diversity. We are a Disability Confident Employer and particularly welcome applications from disabled people. We guarantee interviews to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role (see person specification). If you require the candidate brief or need to submit your application in an alternative format, because of a disability, please do get in touch by sending an email to our HR team.
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We particularly welcome applications from people of underrepresented backgrounds, including those from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority communities, and individuals who identify as LGBTQ+.
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The Head of Data leads the Foundation’s enterprise-wide data strategy, establishing a trusted, secure, well-governed and insight-driven data environment. The role is responsible for delivering data governance, data quality, architecture, engineering, reporting, analytics and the effective use of cloud native data platforms across the organisation.
This leadership role accelerates the Foundation’s journey toward becoming a data-mature, insight-led organisation, supporting strategic decision-making, regulatory confidence, operational excellence, and impact measurement.
Reporting to the Director of Transformation, the Head of Data builds and develops the team, shapes the Foundation’s data culture, and ensures data is a strategic asset that drives value, trust and innovation.
The Head of Data delivers a modern, secure and trusted data environment supporting the Foundation’s mission, and ensures high quality of data that strengthens insight, transparency, regulatory confidence and impact measurement. The role also supports a future-ready data capability, supporting long-term transformation across the Foundation, and helps foster a culture that sees data as a shared asset powering decisions, partnerships and community impact.
Job Description
Strategic Data Leadership
- Develop and deliver the Foundation’s enterprise data strategy aligned to mission and organisational goals.
- Enable data-driven decision-making across all Foundation operations, including Finance & Legal, Endowment, Charities and Impact on Urban Health.
- Embed data into customer experience, operational resilience, risk management and strategic planning.
- Ensure measurable outcomes linked to data quality, adoption and organisational value.
Data Governance & Compliance
- Lead and mature a robust data governance framework, including standards, policies, ownership models, quality controls and metadata management.
- Ensure compliance with GDPR, Data Protection and relevant regulatory and audit requirements.
- Establish trusted data across the organisation through strong controls, lineage, classification and lifecycle management.
Data Architecture & Engineering
- Lead on the enterprise data architecture design, including data lakes, warehousing, integrations, pipelines and modelling.
- Own and optimise cloud-native data technologies across Microsoft Azure, including Fabric, Azure Data Lake, Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse and SQL.
- Ensure the data platform is scalable, high-performing, secure and aligned to organisational transformation needs.
- Partner with the Business Systems team to deliver seamless integrations with CRM, finance, impact measurement tools and third-party platforms.
Analytics, Insight & AI
- Lead on the development of enterprise reporting and analytics, delivering timely, accurate and actionable insights.
- Oversee Power BI governance, semantic models and self-service enablement.
- Drive predictive analytics, operational insight and (where appropriate) responsible AI/ML adoption to enhance outcomes and impact measurement.
- Champion the delivery and innovation in line with emerging technologies to support operational insight.
Leadership, Culture & Collaboration
- Work closely with the Head of Change, Head of Business Systems, and IT Operations Manager to develop end-to-end solutions for business systems, data and infrastructure.
- Over time, build and lead the multidisciplinary data.
- Champion data literacy, high-quality data habits and a culture of curiosity across the Foundation.
- Represent the organisation externally with regulators, suppliers and strategic partners.
- Effectively manage internal and external delivery, including procurement and vendor oversight.
Role responsibilities are not exhaustive, and you would be reasonably expected to take on wider tasks that are commensurate with the level of your role.
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
Skills, abilities, and attributes:
- Self-starter who is adaptable, works with integrity, and exhibits the Foundation’s core values.
- Willing to learn and develop new skills, and help to develop the knowledge and skills of peers.
- Committed to the principle of continuous improvement, with careful attention to detail and due process.
- Committed to delivering consistent and high-quality customer service to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Good interpersonal skills and able to effectively liaise with both internal and external communities.
- Confident in communicating well, both in writing and verbally, and exhibits listening and influencing skills.
- Ability to operate strategically and hands-on in equal measure.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking.
- Ability to build trust, develop relationships and lead through influence.
- Commitment to data ethics, privacy, responsible technology and community impact.
- Keeps fully up to date with emerging technologies
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for senior and non-technical audiences.
Knowledge, experience, and qualifications:
- Proven experience leading data functions in regulated or complex organisations (charity, financial services, healthcare, public sector or similar) – (essential)
- Strong background in enterprise data management, governance, data quality and architecture (essential)
- Deep technical expertise across the Microsoft Azure data ecosystem (Fabric, Data Lake, ADF, Databricks, Synapse, SQL, Purview, DevOps) – (essential)
- Experience scaling cloud-native data platforms and modern data stacks (Lakehouse, pipelines, BI tooling) – (essential)
- Strong understanding of GDPR, data protection, compliance and data risk frameworks (essential)
- Track record of influencing at senior/executive levels and leading cultural change (essential)
- Experience with Microsoft Purview governance and responsible AI frameworks (desirable)
- Certifications such as Azure Data Engineer, Solutions Architect or equivalent (desirable)
- Experience with Azure/OpenAI, Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift, dbt or modern orchestration tools (desirable)
- Experience enabling insights in impact-driven, donor-focused or audience engagement organisations (desirable)
Benefits
- Contributory pension
- Annual personal development budget
- Annual health and wellbeing personal allowance
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and parental leave pay accessible without length of service requirements.
- Health and wellbeing programme that offers optional free yearly health check-ups.
- Support for healthy eating via fruit bowls and onsite lunch facilities.
- Agile working, flexible hours, and supportive IT kit.
- Shower facilities and bike lock area.
- Generous annual leave (27 days + bank holidays)
- Subsidies for glasses
- Employee Assistance Programme
We are currently receiving a strong field of applicants and will be interviewing candidates earlier than scheduled. As a result, this position may close earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible
