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Location: Home working with regular visits to Manchester Office About Golden Lane Housing Limited Golden Lane Housing Limited is a Community Benefits Society that works with people with a learning disability to provide supported housing around which they can build their lives and to help tackle the immense challenges that people with a learning disability face in finding a home. Our vision : Our vision is a world where everyone with a learning disability has opportunities to access good quality housing that meets their needs. Our values: Caring: we support our tenants and colleagues and help them to achieve goals. Listening: we involve tenants in the review and design of housing services. Honesty: we build trust with tenants and families with fairness. Reliable: we are dependable and trusted to keep our standards and commitments. Creative: we work together in many different ways for great results About the role The Information Manager is responsible for managing the organisation's information governance, data quality, and record-keeping practices. This role ensures that information is handled in a secure, compliant, and efficient manner, in line with regulatory requirements and best practices. The Information Manager plays a crucial role in supporting data management, ensuring data integrity, and maintaining effective records management systems. Responsibilities - Information Manager: Data Management and Governance Data Management: Accountable for overseeing the organisation's data management processes, ensuring data is collected, stored, and maintained securely and efficiently. Collaborate with data teams to ensure data integrity and accuracy. Stakeholder Relationship Management: Act as the primary point of contact for information management-related queries from both internal and external stakeholders. Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure that information management practices are aligned with business needs. Data Visualisation: Support the development and communication of data insights through visualisation tools, ensuring that key stakeholders can access and interpret critical data. Database Design and Administration: Work with database administrators and IT teams to ensure that databases are designed and maintained to meet the needs of the organisation, with a focus on optimising data retrieval and record-keeping processes. Data Warehouse/Lakehouse Management Data Warehouse/Lakehouse Architecture: Lead the design and development of the organisation's data warehouse or lakehouse infrastructure. Ensure that data architecture supports both structured and unstructured data storage, optimising for performance, scalability, and ease of access. Data Modelling: Collaborate with data engineers and architects to build efficient data models and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines to ensure that data is transformed into a usable format for analysis and reporting. Record Keeping and Compliance Records Management: Lead the development and management of the organisation's records management system. Ensure that records are created, maintained, and archived according to regulatory requirements and internal policies. Governance: Accountable for ensuring the organisation complies with information governance policies and frameworks. Provide advice and guidance on best practices for managing information and records. Information Security and Assurance: Ensure that all data and records are handled securely, in compliance with data protection regulations, such as GDPR. Collaborate with the IT security team to identify and mitigate risks related to information management. Archiving and Retention Policies: Develop and implement policies for archiving and retaining data and records. Ensure that the organisation complies with legal and regulatory requirements for record-keeping. Change Management and Transformation Business Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve information management processes across the organisation, supporting the development and implementation of improvements that enhance efficiency and compliance. Project Management Support: Collaborate with project managers to ensure that data and record-keeping requirements are integrated into new projects and that data is managed effectively throughout the project lifecycle. Systems Integration and Build: Support systems integration projects, ensuring that information management requirements are met, and that data is transferred securely and accurately between systems. Competencies: Data Governance: Strong understanding of data management and governance principles. Record-Keeping: Expertise in records management, including developing retention policies and managing archiving processes. Compliance and Security: Knowledge of regulatory and compliance frameworks related to data protection and information security. Stakeholder Engagement: Ability to manage relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation. Competencies: Data Governance: Strong understanding of data management and governance principles. Record-Keeping: Expertise in records management, including developing retention policies and managing archiving processes. Compliance and Security: Knowledge of regulatory and compliance frameworks related to data protection and information security. Stakeholder Engagement: Ability to manage relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation. Essential Qualifications: Relevant Degree or equivalent. Skills: Familiarity with data management tools, databases, and records management. Managing information governance frameworks and policies. Designing and managing data warehouses or lakehouse architectures, including data modelling. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Strong organisational skills and attention to detail, with a focus on maintaining accurate records and ensuring data integrity. Competencies: Data Governance: Strong understanding of data management and governance principles. Record-Keeping: Expertise in records management, including developing retention policies and managing archiving processes. Compliance and Security: Knowledge of regulatory and compliance frameworks related to data protection and information security. Stakeholder Engagement: Ability to manage relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation. Desirable Experience: Proven experience in information management, data governance, or records management roles. Experience in a housing association or social housing environment. Familiarity with IT systems and software particularly in relation to information management systems. Experience with business process improvement and change management related to information management. Key: CC - CV and Covering Letter I - Interview CQ - Certificate of Q
Location: Home working with regular visits to Manchester Office About Golden Lane Housing Limited Golden Lane Housing Limited is a Community Benefits Society that works with people with a learning disability to provide supported housing around which they can build their lives and to help tackle the immense challenges that people with a learning disability face in finding a home. Our vision : Our vision is a world where everyone with a learning disability has opportunities to access good quality housing that meets their needs. Our values: Caring: we support our tenants and colleagues and help them to achieve goals. Listening: we involve tenants in the review and design of housing services. Honesty: we build trust with tenants and families with fairness. Reliable: we are dependable and trusted to keep our standards and commitments. Creative: we work together in many different ways for great results About the role The Business Improvement Manager is responsible for overseeing the support, maintenance, and improvement of the MIS ActiveH and Microsoft Applications. The role includes managing the application support team (Business Analysts), ensuring high availability and performance of business-critical systems, and leading incident, problem, and change management processes for applications. The Business Improvement Manager plays a key role in ensuring that the organisation's applications are reliable, secure, and aligned with business requirements. Responsibilities - Business Improvement Manager: System Management and Improvement ActiveH Housing Management System : Accountable for the ongoing management and improvement of the ActiveH Housing Management System. Ensure that the system supports the organisation's housing operations, including property management, tenancy management, and repairs. Unit 4 Finance System: Oversee the Unit 4 Finance System, ensuring that it meets the needs of the finance department. Collaborate with finance teams to optimise financial reporting, budgeting, and transactional processes. Microsoft Office Tools: Lead efforts to enhance the use of Microsoft Office tools across the organisation, ensuring these tools are used effectively to improve productivity and collaboration. Onboarding: Ensure onboarding of new starters is smooth and delivering a good experience, including training on applications and ensuring right equipment in place and in line with the Devices policy. Service and Improvements Requirements Definition and Management: Work with the business and technical teams to define and manage project requirements, ensuring that all stakeholders agree on project goals and deliverables. Business Process Improvement: Support the identification and implementation of process improvements during the project lifecycle, ensuring that projects enhance business performance and efficiency. Incident and Problem Management: Accountable for managing application-related incidents, ensuring that issues are identified, diagnosed, and resolved quickly. Ensure that incident management processes are followed and that major incidents are escalated appropriately. Change Control: Manage the application change control process, ensuring that changes to applications are properly documented, tested, and implemented with minimal risk to the business. Knowledge Management: Oversee the documentation of applications, processes, and procedures, ensuring that the application support team maintains an up-to-date knowledge base. Testing and Training: Lead the testing and training of new applications or updates, ensuring that all changes are properly tested before being released to production. Oversee user acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure that applications meet user needs. Change Management and Transformation Project Management: Take full responsibility for the management of digital and technology projects, including defining project scope, creating detailed project plans, managing budgets, and tracking progress against milestones. Accountable for delivering projects on time, within scope, and within budget. Programme Management Support: Work closely with the Head of Data, Digital and Technology and provide insights and updates on assigned projects, ensuring that project deliverables align with the overall programme objectives. Business Analysis: Collaborate with business analysts to ensure that business requirements are accurately captured, documented, and translated into actionable project plans. Provide support in facilitating requirements gathering and ensuring alignment between business needs and technical solutions. Portfolio, Programme, and Project Support: Ensure project support is provided as needed across the organisation's project portfolio, assisting with risk management, issue resolution, and stakeholder communication. Essential Qualifications: Relevant Degree or equivalent for example Computer Science, Digital transformation. PRINCE 2 or equivalent project management qualification. Skills: Strong knowledge of a Housing Management and Finance System and Microsoft Office tools. Strong understanding of project management methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2, Agile, Waterfall). Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to interact with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex application issues. Familiarity with IT service management (ITSM) tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, or equivalent platforms. Experience: Proven experience as a Project Manager and/or Application Management, with a focus on managing complex systems such as housing management and financial systems. Experience in a housing association or social housing. Experience working with third-party vendors and managing supplier relationships. Competencies: Leadership: Ability to lead and develop a team to deliver high-quality services to the organisation. Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills to identify root causes of application issues. Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Key: CC - CV and Covering Letter I - Interview CQ - Cer
Senior Software Engineer Pay up to £78,517, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital. We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives. DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people. The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Awareness/knowledge of Tuxedo/IPC, Microfocus COBOL, SQL, Bash, Unix and RHEL. Awareness/knowledge of open-source technologies and tools such as Python and Java. Experience of using task management tooling such as Jira. Experience and the skills required to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment. Experience of leading multidisciplinary engineering teams, communicating with stakeholders, driving delivery, ensuring standards, ways of working and building supportive and collaborative culture. You and your role As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be building innovative software solutions and maintaining our core systems, using your skills and experience in C or C++ to develop solutions to complex challenges as part our Citizen Services team. You will also be supporting, coaching and guiding a team of high-performing software engineers, as well as sharing best practices with the wider software engineering and digital communities. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Manchester, Blackpool or Newcastle, whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £78,517. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £22,691 per year. Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100) Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. Process: We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through. Interview: a single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.
Senior Software Engineer Pay up to £78,517, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital. We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives. DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people. The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Awareness/knowledge of Tuxedo/IPC, Microfocus COBOL, SQL, Bash, Unix and RHEL. Awareness/knowledge of open-source technologies and tools such as Python and Java. Experience of using task management tooling such as Jira. Experience and the skills required to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment. Experience of leading multidisciplinary engineering teams, communicating with stakeholders, driving delivery, ensuring standards, ways of working and building supportive and collaborative culture. You and your role As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be building innovative software solutions and maintaining our core systems, using your skills and experience in C or C++ to develop solutions to complex challenges as part our Citizen Services team. You will also be supporting, coaching and guiding a team of high-performing software engineers, as well as sharing best practices with the wider software engineering and digital communities. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Manchester, Blackpool or Newcastle, whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £78,517. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £22,691 per year. Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100) Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. Process: We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through. Interview: a single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.
Senior Software Engineer Pay up to £78,517, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital. We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives. DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people. The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Awareness/knowledge of Tuxedo/IPC, Microfocus COBOL, SQL, Bash, Unix and RHEL. Awareness/knowledge of open-source technologies and tools such as Python and Java. Experience of using task management tooling such as Jira. Experience and the skills required to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment. Experience of leading multidisciplinary engineering teams, communicating with stakeholders, driving delivery, ensuring standards, ways of working and building supportive and collaborative culture. You and your role As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be building innovative software solutions and maintaining our core systems, using your skills and experience in C or C++ to develop solutions to complex challenges as part our Citizen Services team. You will also be supporting, coaching and guiding a team of high-performing software engineers, as well as sharing best practices with the wider software engineering and digital communities. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Manchester, Blackpool or Newcastle, whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £78,517. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £22,691 per year. Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100) Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. Process: We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through. Interview: a single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.
About The Role Team - Health, Adviser and Employer - IT Working Pattern - Hybrid - 2 days per week in any of the Vitality Offices. Full time hours. We are happy to discuss flexible working! What this role is all about: Our Software Engineers are vital to Vitality's success, building and maintaining software solutions to support our integrated business model and deliver seamless, intuitive customer journeys. Key Actions Implement the software development life cycle: build, maintain, test, deliver, release, and document software solutions. Write clean, secure, and well-tested software with method commentary. Complete all necessary documentation (e.g., support manuals, test and release notes). Investigate and fix faults, providing root cause analysis and recommendations. Carry out releases, troubleshoot, and provide support. Perform infrastructure maintenance tasks. Understand and apply architectural pattern designs. Translate design into code and document work using required standards. Design solutions with embedded security controls. Adhere to Vitality's technical and process standards. Ensure solutions are user-focused, strategically aligned, and integrated across teams. Build and test software to meet design specifications. Engage with stakeholders to understand their needs and propose solutions. What do you need to thrive? Demonstrable expertise 5+ years of experience in the use of appropriate tools/technologies for the design, development, build, testing & deployment of Java/JEE applications including; Demonstrable experience in integrating disparate applications and technologies using Java Experience with a range of modern web application frameworks and integration technologies Analytical skills to interpret complex relationships and data sets. So, what's in it for you? Bonus Schemes - A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance A pension of up to 12%- We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary Our award-winning Vitality health insurance - With its own set of rewards and benefits Life Assurance - Four times annual salary These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities! If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, w e will: Help you to be the healthiest you've ever been. Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self. Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work. Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths. Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be. Give you the space to try, fail and learn. Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support. Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits. Be there for you when you need us. Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society. We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy. About The Company We're really excited to announce that we have recently been awarded "Top 10 Best Places To Work" in The Sunday Times Awards 2024! Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place. We've been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives - they benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. We're successful because we attract, develop, and retain the best people - and because we care. Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out. Diversity & Inclusion At Vitality, we're committed to diversity and inclusion because it's good for our employees, for our business, and for society. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Vitality's approach to sustainability Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early.
Pay up to £77,740, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. We are looking for a Lead Service Designer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital. DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people. Digital Channels is driving and enabling the modernisation of DWP's customer contact, helping our 20 million customers to communicate with our department via the right and best channel. We run some of the UK's largest 'Live Services' across all mediums. It is hugely impactful role, which touches nearly every point of customer contact we have. The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us. Design with Purpose Our Services Designers put user needs at the heart of everything they do. You will work closely with Product Managers, Architects and other Service Designers to mature and adapt our services, ensuring we can deliver the best outcome for the customers and colleagues that use them. You will work with stakeholders across different areas to understand what they need and to articulate the vision and lead the design strategy in a way that makes sense. With a data and insight led approach, you will be able to identify pain points within our services and define design solutions and improvements to fulfil user needs and drive improved business outcomes, also influencing stakeholder buy in. We have a thriving Design community in DWP, dedicated to sharing expertise, and continuous learning. You're a skilled practitioner and expert, and a leader. You will shape what we mean by service design in DWP, acting a mentor and role model for the wider Service Design team. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? How will this be assessed? The application process for these roles includes a personal statement. This is your opportunity to showcase clear examples and evidence of how you meet the following: Significant experience of hands-on service design. Experience providing leadership and expertise at program level to develop end-to-end, front-to-back services using wider Government principles and evidence to meet user needs and organisational objectives Influencing and communicating to a wide range of senior and other stakeholders on the value of user centricity, your strategies, approaches and decisions. Experience leading on the creation and maintenance of a positive and collaborative working environment. The sift panel will use the information in your employment history and personal statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge against the essential criteria above. Full details, as well as application guidance are detailed in the Civil Service Job description - Click "Apply" to be redirected. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £77,740. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth over £21,000. Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100) Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. Process: We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through. Interview: a single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.
Pay up to £77,740, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. We are looking for a Lead Service Designer to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital. DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people. Digital Channels is driving and enabling the modernisation of DWP's customer contact, helping our 20 million customers to communicate with our department via the right and best channel. We run some of the UK's largest 'Live Services' across all mediums. It is hugely impactful role, which touches nearly every point of customer contact we have. The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us. Design with Purpose Our Services Designers put user needs at the heart of everything they do. You will work closely with Product Managers, Architects and other Service Designers to mature and adapt our services, ensuring we can deliver the best outcome for the customers and colleagues that use them. You will work with stakeholders across different areas to understand what they need and to articulate the vision and lead the design strategy in a way that makes sense. With a data and insight led approach, you will be able to identify pain points within our services and define design solutions and improvements to fulfil user needs and drive improved business outcomes, also influencing stakeholder buy in. We have a thriving Design community in DWP, dedicated to sharing expertise, and continuous learning. You're a skilled practitioner and expert, and a leader. You will shape what we mean by service design in DWP, acting a mentor and role model for the wider Service Design team. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? How will this be assessed? The application process for these roles includes a personal statement. This is your opportunity to showcase clear examples and evidence of how you meet the following: Significant experience of hands-on service design. Experience providing leadership and expertise at program level to develop end-to-end, front-to-back services using wider Government principles and evidence to meet user needs and organisational objectives Influencing and communicating to a wide range of senior and other stakeholders on the value of user centricity, your strategies, approaches and decisions. Experience leading on the creation and maintenance of a positive and collaborative working environment. The sift panel will use the information in your employment history and personal statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge against the essential criteria above. Full details, as well as application guidance are detailed in the Civil Service Job description - Click "Apply" to be redirected. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £77,740. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth over £21,000. Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100) Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. Process: We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through. Interview: a single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.
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The UK IT market has some unique characteristics compared to other job sectors. It is constantly evolving alongside the rapid development of new technologies and programming languages.
The market is also significantly impacted by changes in work patterns and broader societal shifts, such as the emergence of previously unknown roles like "psydesigner" or "ethicist" linked to the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
According to the Opteamis barometer on IT market trends, this industry is experiencing consistent growth at a rate well above the national average.
It is also one of the few sectors where demand often exceeds supply. Some professions face a real talent shortage, particularly in areas like:
When it comes to sought-after skills, software design and development remain the most in-demand, significantly outpacing cloud computing and infrastructure. Roles in IT management and project management, while still in high demand, are relatively less so.
To stay up-to-date on the latest job trends in the UK IT market, feel free to consult our IT barometer.
There you'll find the skills and profiles most sought after by recruiters, as well as relevant job opportunities.
For IT freelancers, the high demand and talent shortage is driving an increase in daily rates. However, significant disparities persist depending on:
Additionally, there is no official rate schedule for daily rates in IT. Each freelancer must calculate their own rate based on their expenses, status, and desired profit margin.
To help you calculate your own daily rate, you can consult our database of IT expert rates. The presented rates are calculated from the contributions of independent IT professionals who are members of the Freelance-info community. You can sort them by your specialty and region.
The IT market involves a variety of players, including end clients, recruitment agencies, and IT services/digital services companies (known as SSIIs or ESNs).
The acronym ESN replaced SSII after 2013, but they are essentially the same structures. These companies offer their clients digital services, including:
ESNs can specialise in a specific sector (banking, insurance, etc.). They generally sign contracts for several months or years with their clients and commit to providing their IT skills and resources mainly through their employees and collaborators.
IT professionals can thus be hired on permanent contracts (CDI), fixed-term contracts (CDD), or freelance contracts by the ESN. After interviews and tests, the ESN will assign you a job with one of their end clients. Equally, end clients can request that you go through the ESN they are accustomed to working with.
The recruitment agency is another intermediary between companies and IT employees or freelancers.
However, unlike ESNs, these agencies hire you directly by one of their end clients.
Recruitment agencies also have an advisory role and can help you integrate into a network of companies and benefit from several internal job opportunities.
In return, they take a percentage of the employee's annual gross salary or the freelancer's turnover.
Recruitment platforms or portals allow companies looking for employees or freelancers to browse candidates' profiles and CVs.
For example, our platform reserved for IT recruiters: Turnover-it.com brings together the CV databases of our two historical sites for IT opportunities and jobs: Freelance-info and Carriere-info.
Companies can post their offers and disseminate their intercontracts in our CV database to obtain profiles of IT and IS specialists suited to their needs.
As a candidate, you can browse the list of recruiting companies and be directly redirected to corresponding offers by visiting our IT recruiters directory.
End clients include all companies and organisations looking to hire an IT employee or contractor. They can go through one of the intermediaries mentioned above or proceed with direct recruitment.
If you want to work as a freelancer without intermediaries, you will need to create a legal structure (micro-enterprise, SASU, EURL, etc.) to establish a service contract. You can also use a contracting company to work independently while retaining the benefits of an employment contract and outsourcing the management of contracts and billing to the contracting company.
The acronym IT represents the vast field of Information Technology.
While software development is at the heart of the digital sector, it relies on and interacts with many other skills and professions.
IT jobs are constantly evolving, driven by a market in perpetual growth and change. The increasing digitalization of businesses and work methods, the rise of AI, IoT (Internet of Things), and the exponential growth of cybersecurity are leading to the creation of new roles and professions.
To help you get a clearer picture, here are some of the most in-demand positions in the IT field. Design and Development Jobs
The developer position is probably the first that comes to mind when thinking about IT jobs.
Software Developers are professionals in algorithms and programming languages. However, their role is not limited to just writing code for applications and software.
Developers must be able to design and understand a specification document detailing the technical specifics of a project. For this, they can participate early in gathering user needs.
During and after development, they are also responsible for testing and deploying their application and ensuring its maintenance.
Developers generally specialise in a technology, language, or specific part of development, for example:
A DBA is responsible for the creation, maintenance, security, and optimization of an organisation’s databases.
They manage access rights to the databases, establish standards and best practices, and can provide support to development teams by:
Sometimes called an integrator project manager, application project manager, or Product Owner (PO) in Agile methodology, IT Project Managers (CPI) are experts who manages a team of technicians to design, develop, and integrate a software or IT solution.
They must have both technical and managerial skills and be able to consider project timelines and budgets.
Scrum Masters (SM) are related to the Scrum methodology. They manage the product and software in collaboration with development teams.
Unlike the Project Manager, they do not aim to lead the team but rather support and help organize and distribute tasks. They notably facilitate daily scrums, planning poker, retrospectives, and other stages of the Scrum method.
Network Administrators ensure access to and the security of the information system. They can create and develop an organisation’s IT network and evolve it according to the applications and software used.
They must also detect and coordinate anomalies and conduct security and technology monitoring.
A IS (information systems) Architect sets up and coordinates all equipment and software (servers, operating systems, computers, etc.) to adapt them to their company’s or client's needs. Their tasks also include an audit and needs analysis phase, as well as controlling the efficiency, monitoring, and maintenance of their IS.
IT consultants work with companies that want to evolve their IS. They propose technical solutions adapted to the organisation and its objectives. For this, they may design and participate in the installation and supervision of the IS’s evolution, ensuring its performance and security.
They also provide advice on which tools and software to choose and how to use them (e.g., preventive maintenance or access management). Finally, they can conduct training sessions for IT teams.
IT consultants are generally specialized in a defined field such as:
A ISSM ensures that cybercriminals do not infiltrate an information system.
To do this, they define and implement the organisation’s security policy, particularly regarding access rights, permissions, procedures, and incident recovery plans.
They also contribute to ensuring the availability of the company's information system and conduct ongoing security monitoring to anticipate vulnerabilities and new types of cyberattacks.
A Data Analyst collects, studies, and interprets data sets to answer a question or solve a problem.
This role is part of IT because a Data Analyst will use:
A Data Scientist is also a professional in data extraction and analysis. Unlike the Data Analyst, they do not limit themselves to raw analysis but create predictive statistical and mathematical models that serve as the basis for "intelligent" decision-making tools. They also have excellent knowledge of Big Data (Data Mining).
An AI engineer creates predictive models and algorithms using machine learning, neural networks, and deep learning.
These algorithms serve as the basis for AI software and systems.
AI engineers therefore have a good understanding of data analysis and science, as well as programming to design and maintain AI models.
This list is, of course, not exhaustive, as IT is a field in constant evolution. New roles are developing with AI, such as Chief Data Officer (CDO) in charge of data governance or the Cloud Architect.
Mixed skills are also highly sought after, such as DevSecOps, who must know how to program and maintain and monitor security infrastructures.
To find more IT profiles and jobs, you can directly consult the list of IT jobs and the related offers.
The IT market is booming, and job opportunities are multiplying. However, to quickly find the job suited to your profile, skills, and goals, certain steps are essential.
The CV is the first "contact" a recruiter has with you. It is almost indispensable for all candidates seeking a salaried position.
A "traditional" CV can work, but make sure to highlight your IT skills, including:
Online CVs or one-page websites are also excellent ways to showcase your skills and potentially link to your various projects.
For a freelancer, the CV is completely different since it aims not to obtain a job, but to sell a service...
You can mention:
Once created, don't hesitate to share your CV and profile and update them regularly. You can create your IT profile on Free-Work to be visible hundreds of companies in the IT, SI, and WEB sectors.
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Then, you can:
The IT field is constantly evolving. The skills in demand change with the popularity of programming languages, the emergence of new technologies, the growing shortage of profiles in certain sectors, etc.
To remain competitive throughout your IT career, you will often need to train and stay informed about changes by keeping up with technological, security, and sometimes legal developments.
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