Amie Jordi
Head of Digital Systems and Infrastructure
Amie leads a dynamic team of technology professionals who focus on the development and support of digital products that enable the goals of the Genomic Surveillance Unit (GSU), it’s partners and funders. The team are 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 has 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 executive leadership positions over her 16 years of experience, working in commercial fast-moving consumer goods and retail sectors. 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. She is an actively contributing member to the Technical Informatics Committee (TICom) at Wellcome Sanger.
My timeline
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!