Amie Jordi
Head of Digital Systems and Infrastructure
Alumni
This person is a member of Sanger Institute Alumni.
Left the Wellcome Sanger Institute – Genomic Surveillance Unit to become IT Director of Wellcome Genome Campus Ltd in January 2025.
Amie led a dynamic team of technology professionals developing and supporting digital products to enable the goals of the Genomic Surveillance Unit (GSU), it’s partners and funders. The team was made up of talented software developers, data engineers, product managers, QA testers, scrum masters, architects and platform technical support engineers who are focussed on building and implementing the right tools and technology to enable genomic surveillance.
Since joining the Wellcome Sanger Institute in March 2021, Amie worked with the GSU leadership team to understand the IT needs of the organisation, build up the team that support it, along with building the technology strategy and the pathway to delivery.
Amie has held several leadership positions working in commercial fast-moving consumer goods, retail and life sciences domain. She has a passion for coaching people in organisations. Amie has broad knowledge across software delivery, enterprise platform support and infrastructure management and specialises in process engineering.
My timeline
Left the Wellcome Sanger Institute - Genomic Surveillance Unit to join Wellcome Genome Campus Ltd as IT Director
Joined GRL as Head of Business Systems and Data Engineering (now Digital Systems and Infrastructure)
Executive for Systems and Enabling Technologies at AVI Limited (JSE-listed consumer and retail company in South Africa) heading up a team that supported 5 separate enterprise platforms enabling the business's end to end operations
Infrastructure Services Executive at AVI Limited heading up a team of Network and Systems Engineers, Governance, Service Desk Function and Facilities
Senior Systems Manager at AVI Limited - where I started to build my skills as a manager and developed a passion for understanding how teams work and how to make them better
Business Analyst/Business Process Analyst - where my passion for process, people and technology began! Worked on several projects implementing systems, understanding a variety of business processes and supporting incremental improvement
IT Service Desk Manager - where I learned all about the importance of understanding what a customer needs, the importance of keeping people up to date when things go wrong, and above all, being solution-orientated!