Senior IT Desktop Strategist

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Permanent

Location:
Edinburgh (We believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and our hybrid model requires colleagues to be in the office a minimum of 40% of their time)

Salary: A competitive salary from £48,000-£65,500 depending on the experience you can bring

Closing date:
Sunday 22nd March

Enterprise Technology is Aegon's global IT partner. We provide dedicated support to Transamerica and we bring all Aegon's business units together through the use of technology. We provide the backbone - the infrastructure - for how everything works. We’re creating the company’s AI environment, building a flexible ‘cloud experience’ for internal hosting services, designing frameworks for data governance and management, and ensuring the security and stability the company’s technology.

In short, we enable the business units to move more quickly and deliver to our clients in the best possible way. Whether customers are interested in insurance products or annuities or financial services, we're here to ensure they don't have to worry whether their information is safe.

Across 6 locations, there are over 1,000 employees in the US, the Netherlands, UK, and Hungary, we support 20+ country units in the world. Our global teams are comprised of experts in the areas such as application development, information security, infrastructure services, data & analytics, risk & controls, procurement, program management, and architecture. With the breadth of functions within Enterprise Technology, individuals can pursue a wide variety of careers, and we have a focus on supporting employees’ development.

In particular, our Talent Marketplace enables colleagues to take on gigs to broaden their experience and try out different responsibilities, which can be extremely rewarding.

The most important quality in the people who join us is curiosity. A lot of what we do is problem solving, requiring colleagues to take what they know and apply it to new situations. We have many mature processes, but we’re always looking for opportunities to improve, so we want people who are naturally inquisitive and confident enough to challenge the way we do things.

This position sits within ET Digital Workplace Services and focuses on overseeing Aegon’s strategic technical partnerships that support desktop services across the organisation. The Senior IT Desktop Strategist is responsible for evolving the Desktop Technology Strategy, ensuring technologies and vendor solutions are aligned, efficient, and delivering measurable value. The role combines strategic direction with hands‑on expertise, working closely with service owners, technical teams, and architecture functions to enhance service performance, challenge existing approaches, and drive continuous improvement across the digital workplace environment.

• Responsible for maintaining Enterprise Technology’s Desktop Technology Strategy, ensuring that corresponding strategic goals are planned, advanced and achieved, and that they deliver business value.

• Provides direction for the vendor desktop strategy to ensure those technologies are cohesive and in sync

• Provide hands on technology expertise to current desktop systems

• Strengthens alignment by participating in in strategic and operational planning activities involving GTS service owners and top technical staff.

• Provides consulting on operational processes to maintain strategic alignment and minimise customer impact.

• Provides consulting for architecture team in reviewing strategic technologies and solution design.

• Constantly engage in challenging the status-quo and bringing in more value to the organisation through in-house/external technology solutions

• Conducts research for IT projects that are strategic in nature.

• Assess various technologies, products, and services related to the management of performance-based information

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical strategy

• Broad knowledge across key technology disciplines, including web, database, data centre, network, and…