Application Packaging & Business Apps Support

We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide.

We work directly with individuals to help them gain the skills, confidence and connections to transform their lives and shape a better world in partnership with the UK. We support them to build networks and explore creative ideas, to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications.

Working with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2021–22 we reached 650 million people.

British Council Pay band :  Grade 7 - The annual salary offered starts at 1,205,100 rupees per year

Location : Noida, India

Department : Digital & Technology

Contract type : Indefinite (permanent)

Closing Date : Wednesday 3 July at 23 : 59 UK time zone

Interviews will take place on : w / c 15 July TBC.

You must have the legal right to work in India at the time of application; there is no relocation or visa sponsorship support offered.

British Council supports working in new ways such as hybrid working, subject to full approval by line management and conditional upon our ability to provide the appropriate level of service. This may not be appropriate for all roles but can be explored at interview.

Role Purpose

As COTS (Commercial Of The Shelf, the internal name for Application Packaging & Deployment at British Council) and Business Apps Support, you will support the COTS and Business Apps Lead and Manager to deliver the service lifecycle roadmap and the Applications Strategy for the British Council COTS and Business Applications.

Your work will include planning and strategizing the process to achieve efficiency and effectiveness of application packaging and deployment activities. You will ensure that these applications remain up to date and secure, while enforcing our policy to reduce the number of multiple applications that deliver the same capability.

In this role, you will work with global stakeholders. You will collaborate with the rest of the team to ensure the portfolio of COTS and Business Applications available to the British Council user community provides the functionality required to deliver British Council business.

Role Context

The Digital and Technology Directorate leads the British Council’s digital strategy and transformation. It creates and executes technology initiatives to fulfil the organisation’s mission and corporate priorities.

Key focus areas are :

• Creating digital products that attract and retain customers, delivering business value through digital design and delivery expertise.
• Developing and optimising digital platforms that provide seamless customer interactions and use scalable and secure capabilities.
• Enhancing digital capability across the organisation.
• Enabling growth, impact and efficiency through technology.

Digital and Technology is a global Directorate organised into four divisions : Product, Engineering, Operations and Performance which collectively create digital products and services, maintain, and improve products, services and platforms and optimise performance. Areas of responsibility include digital and technology strategy, architecture, infrastructure, software, development, data, innovation, and cybersecurity. It ensures that technology initiatives are customer and value focused, accessible, efficient, and secure.

The Operations division is accountable for the continuing delivery of secure, performant enterprise platforms and applications and the connectivity and modern workplace environment to access those platforms. This is achieved through partnerships with external suppliers and delivery through ITIL based processes. The unit is also responsible for transitioning new products and services into the live environment. It interfaces across the Digital and Technology departments, Suppliers and Managed Services.

Scope of the role covers cloud based as well as endpoint-based applications.

Main Accountabilities / Responsibilities

Complete business and technical validation (including security assessment) of all applications requests in line with the Applications Strategy and other relevant policies (including the Information Security Policy).

Role Specific Skills

Role specific knowledge and experience required

Education / Professional Qualification and Certification

Minimum

Desirable

A connected and trusted UK in a more connected and trusted world.

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