ICT Technical Design Lead (2 Posts), Flexible Location (Any Highland Council Office)

Job Description

Post Title: ICT Technical Design Lead
Location: Flexible/Hybrid 
Hours: 35 hours per week
Duration: Permanent
Salary: £57,948 - £63,390 per annum

Salary placing will normally be at the first point of the scale.

Contact Person: ​Allan Henderson - allan.henderson3@highland.gov.uk

Job Purpose:

This role will provide technical leadership, oversight, and assurance for the design and
implementation of business systems, integrations, data flows, and supporting
infrastructure. The post holder will ensure that solutions align with Highland Council’s ICT and Digital strategies, meet security and data governance standards, and are resilient, scalable, and fit for long-term operational use.

You will support business change by coordinating technical design decisions, managing dependencies across the wider ICT estate, and ensuring effective collaboration between internal teams and external suppliers delivering digital solutions. This includes defining technical options, supporting procurement and implementation, and ensuring clear and effective transition into live service.

The focus of the role is innovation and assurance—designing user-centred solutions that improve employee and manager experience, support streamlined processes and enable automation and consistent use of data across the organisation. This includes identifying opportunities for simplification, integration, and reduction of duplication across existing systems.

This exciting role will lead the overall solution design and technical assurance for ICT and digital change, ensuring the successful delivery of a secure, resilient, cost-effective, and sustainable service that supports workforce transformation across the Highland Council.

Please find the Job Description below.

The Highland Council understands that diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity and being fair and inclusive. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, representative of the communities we serve and particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be under-represented in our workforce.

As a disability confident employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria requirements for the post.

Shortlisted applicants will normally be contacted by email, unless otherwise stated. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.

Requirements

Educated to degree level in a numerate/business/digital and technology related subject; or

Relevant industry specific qualification(s); or

Extensive relevant proven experience that demonstrates a similar level of knowledge and understanding.

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The knowledge and experience typically required to do the job can be acquired in a variety of ways, for example through on the job training, relevant experience, or typically a professional qualification in an appropriate discipline or equivalent such as SVQ level 5 or an honours degree, and experience of generally 10 years for full competence and familiarity with all aspects of the job.