Enterprise Applications Lead

Full Time, Permanent

We're looking for an experienced digital leader to take ownership of Bristol City Council's enterprise application estate, with a particular focus on Microsoft 365 and associated cloud services.

In this role, you'll lead a small specialist team and work closely with colleagues across Digital, ICT, Information Governance and relevant council services to ensure enterprise applications are secure, well governed, widely adopted and deliver real value.

What you'll do

• Lead the management and development of Microsoft 365 and other enterprise applications.
• Ensure services are secure, compliant and aligned to organisational needs.
• Develop governance, controls and operating standards for enterprise applications.
• Drive adoption, learning and digital enablement across the council.
• Lead service improvements, change activity and future roadmap planning.
• Use data and insight to support decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Provide leadership and development for the Enterprise Applications Team.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and act as a trusted advisor on enterprise technologies.

About you

You will have:

• Experience managing enterprise applications and cloud-based services. SharePoint is a key platform for the council, so experience of managing and developing SharePoint services would be particularly valuable.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365 and modern workplace technologies.
• The ability to keep up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends, including AI and Microsoft 365 developments, and can identify opportunities to apply them in ways that deliver value for the organisation.
• Experience developing governance, compliance and service management approaches.
• A track record of leading teams and driving service improvement.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Experience supporting technology adoption and organisational change.

Why join us?

This is an exciting opportunity to shape how technology supports one of the country's largest local authorities. You'll influence strategic decisions, help drive adoption of emerging technologies, including Copilot, and support more modern, productive and inclusive ways of working across the council.

Why Bristol City Council?

At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. For the majority of our roles hybrid working arrangements are available, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice - mixing both home and office working.

Join us and you’ll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.

How do I apply?

If you share our values and are ready to be part of our exciting journey please select the apply button below.

To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.

We're a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.

If you would like to have a conversation around the role, please get in touch with Timea Wilson timea.wilson@bristol.gov.uk

Shortlisting: Week commencing 10 August 2026
Interviews: Week commencing 31 August  2026

At Bristol City Council, we value having a workforce as diverse as the city we serve. We therefore welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. Appointments will be made on merit.

The personal information section (including your name) you’ll complete as part of the application form will not be visible to hiring managers, but is used confidentially to make sure that everyone is treated fairly.