Head of IT
- Hiring from
- United Kingdom
- Work type
- Hybrid
- Posted
- Sep 30, 2026
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About Us
At Tempcover, we believe insurance should never slow you down. Especially during life’s most unexpected moments. We offer fast, flexible temporary insurance with no long-term commitment: temporary car insurance, short-term van insurance and learner driver insurance.
We’ve helped over 4 million drivers get on the road, and we’re just getting into gear. We’re now growing our team for the next phase of our journey. If you’ve got the drive to match and want to help shape the future of driving and insurance, we’d love to hear from you.
We create value in everything we do, for customers and our business. We push boundaries, staying miles ahead of the game. We win together, backing each other to do our best work.
At Tempcover, we believe insurance should never slow you down. Especially during life’s most unexpected moments. We offer fast, flexible temporary insurance with no long-term commitment: temporary car insurance, short-term van insurance and learner driver insurance.
We’ve helped over 4 million drivers get on the road, and we’re just getting into gear. We’re now growing our team for the next phase of our journey. If you’ve got the drive to match and want to help shape the future of driving and insurance, we’d love to hear from you.
We create value in everything we do, for customers and our business. We push boundaries, staying miles ahead of the game. We win together, backing each other to do our best work.
Key Responsibilities
Identity and access. You will run Entra ID and Google Workspace as our two core platforms, owning SSO, MFA, conditional access and group structure, and keeping the relationship between the two clean rather than accreted.
The endpoint fleet. Around 75 users across macOS and Windows, managed entirely through Intune. Enrolment, compliance policy, patching, encryption and app deployment, plus the hardware lifecycle from procurement to secure disposal.
Access lifecycle across roughly 70 SaaS tools, from core business systems through to Slack and Claude. Today a lot of this is manual. You will make provisioning and deprovisioning repeatable, ideally by scripting against vendor APIs rather than clicking through admin consoles.
IT as a service the business can rely on. You will run budgeting, stand up our own service management and asset tooling with sensible SLAs, and build joiners, movers and leavers into a process that produces evidence rather than reassurance.
Vendor and contract management. You own the relationship with our IT suppliers end to end: contracts, renewals, pricing and performance, not just provisioning access to what they provide.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
What we need from you
- Deep, current, hands-on Intune experience across both macOS and Windows.
- Strong Entra ID administration and tenant-level Google Workspace administration.
- Scripting in PowerShell, Python or Bash. We believe in automation and are currently using n8n to speed up processes
- You have built joiners, movers and leavers, access reviews or asset management somewhere they did not previously exist.
- You have managed and developed at least one person, and can talk specifically about how.
- Comfort picking up complex technical work already in motion, rather than starting from a clean slate.
- Stakeholder communication - you can write clearly for a non-technical audience and have run comms for a change or migration that affected the whole company.
- Owning an IT budget: forecasting hardware refresh cycles, SaaS renewals and headcount-driven costs, and making the trade-offs visible when priorities compete.
- Sitting with other teams to understand what they're actually trying to achieve, then proposing and building the automation or integration that gets them there, rather than waiting to be handed a spec.
Helpful, not essential
Experience of a carve-out, tenant migration or post-acquisition consolidation: merging collaboration platforms, reconciling identity, migrating data. It is the closest thing to what you are inheriting.- Time spent in regulated financial services, and comfort supporting audit and assurance work.
- Experience being the first or only IT hire somewhere.
Benefits
- 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on company and personal performance)
- A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to “work from anywhere”
- Employer matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
- A one-off £300 “work from home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
- Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
- 25 days holiday (increasing with years of employment to 30 days) + 2 days “my time” per year
- Private medical cover, critical illness cover, and employee assistance programme
- A healthy learning and training budget
- Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.