Job Vacancy Deputy Delivery Director, Legacy Services Transformation - Home Office - SCS1

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate their knowledge, experience, capability and behavioural approach to a high standard against the following key criteria:

• Led and motivated large, multi‑disciplinary teams, building delivery capability and empowering high performance in complex, pressured environments.

• Exceptional communicator and relationship builder, with proven credibility and influence with senior business, technical and political stakeholders.

• Delivered complex programmes, products and services end‑to‑end, combining programme, product, financial and supplier management to achieve value for money and service excellence.

• Ran large‑scale operational digital services, with strong focus on availability, operational performance, resilience and continual improvement.

• Proven track record delivering high‑profile operational programmes, including management of large capital budgets and successful outcomes under scrutiny.

• Led major service transformation initiatives, modernising highly legacy capabilities into scalable digital services and managing mature service teams through change.

Croydon, Hendon, Manchester, Glasgow and Sheffield. Other travel to key HO hubs may be required.

The Role:

• Lead and direct delivery activities across programmes affecting data services, environments and technical teams within scope of the role including the Police National Computer (PNC), Hendon Virtual Environment (HVE), Hendon Evolution (HE), and NLEDP Experience, Skills Transition (NEST) and as appropriate, other national policing data services as agreed within scope.

• Lead cross policing and wider law enforcement engagement to set strategic direction for services within scope, aligning funding allocations and appropriate capabilities to deliver required outcomes.

• Establish coherent digital product roadmaps with a shared direction and vision, that balances stakeholders’ priorities and longer-term departmental and policing goals. Working closely with Chief Constable level Senior Service Owners, Product Managers, Product Owners and wider stakeholder groups to agree requirements, align business and technology strategies with product capability roadmaps, whilst ensuring the ability to adapt and deliver quickly as needed.

• Develop and execute the strategic approach to adopt a combined single service model across the in-scope services, leading work to embed transformational ways of working and capability growth to deliver a robust, secure and mature service model to support the in-scope services capable of scaling to accommodate future national policing data services.

• Deputising as required for the Director: National Law Enforcement Data Portfolio (NLEDP).