Lancaster University is embarking on a transformation and strategic journey to enhance the University's digital capabilities, this is the time to be part of a dynamic team where innovation thrives, cutting-edge projects await, and customer service excellence is key. Whether you’re a technology leader, architect, developer or designer, explore our exciting roles that will shape the future of education and research.
Lancaster University is a highly ranked collegiate university with a global reputation in teaching and research. They have a beautiful green campus that provides a perfect place to work, socialise and learn.
Their vision is to be a university that is globally significant, a sector leader and innovator that delivers the highest quality of research and teaching, who engages locally, nationally, and internationally on current and future debates. Digital and technology is a core enabler to achieve and sustain their priorities and goals.
Harvey Nash has partnered with Lancaster University to support them with the recruitment in their Information Systems Services Team.
Lancaster has embarked on a new Digital Strategy, shaping the future direction of IT up to 2028. The strategy, which accelerates digital maturity across the University, will drive investment in state-of-the-art infrastructure and the capabilities within the IT organisation to deliver digital change.
By 2028 IT will be:
This is driven through 8 strategic themes, as shown in the diagram.
Expand the use robotic process automation to streamline workflow, reduce costs and increase operational efficiency by eliminating mundane and repetitive tasks while improving user experience overall.
Through the establishment of a Master Data Management discipline across the University, utilising an Enterprise Integration Platform to centralise our data into a Business Intelligence & Analytics repository enabling enhanced data insights and data driven decision making.
By evaluating each of the University’s applications to identify and eliminate duplicative functionality, we will streamline our systems and achieve cost optimisation and rationalisation of our applications.
Optimising agility across the University by adding scalability, flexibility and resource optimisation through cloud enablement while focusing on reducing our carbon footprint, enhancing our security realm and supporting our sustainability targets.
Leveraging modern cloud based systems, we will make it easy for users to access our systems with a single login while bolstering security and enhancing user experience.
Optimising our ISS operating model to embed and develop the new capabilities and governance frameworks required to deliver the strategy and maximise the benefits of investing in our ISS capabilities.
Enabling a frictionless global one Lancaster experience for students, academics and staff regardless of their campus or location enabled through a connected and seamless global IT estate.
Building and embedding a human-centred design approach aligned with the University's strategic needs to ensure we meet the needs of all user communities (Students, Academics and Staff) while advancing the digital maturity of teaching, learning, research and enterprise operations.
