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As Director General – Chief Digital & Innovation Officer , your specific responsibilities will include: Strategic Leadership: Lead cross-departmental digital services, harnessing digital technologies and data to transform services for users. Live Service Operations: Deliver mission-critical live services at scale. Digital, Scientific, Data and Research Innovation: Champion the integration of cutting-edge technologies, data science, and research into operational delivery and policy development. Cross-Government Engagement: Represent the Home Office in senior forums, influencing policy and delivery across Whitehall and with international partners. Operational Oversight: Provide strategic direction and governance for major programmes such as Home Office Biometrics and Digital First, ensuring delivery excellence and risk management. Organisational Development: Build and nurture high-performing, inclusive teams, and develop future leaders across all functions. Budgetary Responsibility: Accountable for a combined budget exceeding £1.8bn, ensuring value for money and alignment with spending review commitments. Strategic Partnerships: Foster collaboration across government, academia, industry, and international stakeholders to enhance service transformation outcomes.

As a DevOps Engineer your main day to day responsibilities will be: Providing hands-on technical support, troubleshooting platform use and configuration issues. Support & mentorship of junior developers. Development, Maintenance and continuous improvement of in-house automation platforms, scripts and services. Contributing to routine monitoring activities, identifying performance improvements and security enhancements. End-to-end technical onboarding of new systems into the Cyber Security environment. Development, maintenance and continuous improvement of Cyber Security tooling and services. Supporting Cyber Security functions with technical expertise & advice. Like many organisations we need to maintain our services 24/7, therefore, on occasions there may be a requirement to work out of hours, for which you will be paid an additional allowance. Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in the office. Travel to the Manchester office will be required for the successful candidate.

You will join a team in DBS Digital, Information and Technology (DIT) responsible for exploiting and administering the DBS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) platform, in support of Civilian People business needs. Working closely with engineers, developers, other architects and the wider Civilian People Change Delivery Services, your focus will be on designing and improving the OCI platform to enable DBS to provide its Civilian People services. This includes support to the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technologies enabling and extending the Oracle HCM Cloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) HR, Payroll and Expenses system MyHR. This role will also involve architectural oversight of a MODCloud iACE (Microsoft Azure) tenant hosting the public-facing Discover My Benefits website. Role Specific Responsibilities Responsible for solution designs at application, data, platform or security level (dependent on background), consisting of Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service and Software-as-a-Service technologies providing network, integration and security views Recommend solutions to business requirements, completing options analyses where appropriate, and balancing functional fit against cost, strategic alignment and non-functional requirements such as supportability, interoperability, scalability and reusability Create and amend High Level Designs (HLDs), ensuring they are current and accurate, provide sufficient technical detail and explain how the MOD’s many assurance requirements (e.g. Secure-by-Design, JSP 453) are met Represent and advocate for solutions at the Technical Design Authority (TDA), and contribute to discussions around solutions proposed by other teams Apply robust architectural governance across Change Requests (CRs) and projects, ensuring decision logs are maintained and designs are completed and approved, whilst also working at pace to facilitate agile delivery of proofs of concept (POCs) and minimum viable products (MVPs)

This job role is within Digital Services and Technology in the Vehicle Certification Agency. The postholder leads on the development and delivery forming part of our core product set of Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. This role reports into the Chief Digital & Information Officer and is part of a multi-disciplinary team who develop and manage a broad suite of digital products and applications. Your main duties will include but will not be limited to: Design and Development: Lead the design, development, and implementation of custom solutions using Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Full-Stack Development: Develop and maintain both front-end and back-end components of applications, ensuring seamless integration and performance. Collaboration: Lead and work closely with external development teams to form a cohesive hybrid development team, ensuring effective communication and collaboration. Solution Delivery: Oversee the delivery of digital solutions, ensuring they meet business requirements and are delivered on time and within budget. Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement. Quality Assurance: Ensure the quality and performance of developed solutions through rigorous testing and code reviews. Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of development processes, code, and solutions for future reference and knowledge sharing. Information security: You can maintain the security, confidentiality and integrity of information systems through compliance with relevant legislation and regulations. You can design, implement and operate controls and management strategies to allow this Modern standards approach: You can apply a modern standards approach throughout automation and testing. Innovation: Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, and proactively suggest improvements and innovations to enhance our digital solutions. User focus: You can understand users and identify who they are and what their needs are, based on evidence. You can translate user stories and propose design approaches or services to meet these needs. You can engage in meaningful interactions and relationships with users. You can show that you put users first and can manage competing priorities. Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public. For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

You will lead a challenging agenda, building strong partnerships with other functional leaders (e.g., Commercial, People, Finance, Risk etc) to build joined up approaches to problem solving and drive activity in the following areas:​ Performance and Planning ​ Own the complete view of Digital and Transformation Group business, ensuring it’s well planned, governed, and there is a positive return on investment​ Own the operating model for DWP Digital and Transformation, ensuring it enables effective and efficient delivery for colleagues and customers ​ Deliver an accurate workforce plan for over 4000 FTE and in leading the annual and multi-year (Spending Review) Business Planning processes, ensure we have a clear and resourced plan to deliver our ambitions, strategy and vision​ Build key performance metrics and Objectives and Key Results that help shape and align to Departmental future plans​ ​ Governance and Risk Management ​ Lead on organisational governance, control and risk management for DWP Digital, identifying blockers and issues early, and supporting and coaching colleagues to navigate these successfully ​ Effectively manage the business of Digital and Transformation Group through the DET, representing Digital and Transformation Group and provide subject matter expertise on Departmental Committees ​ Own and manage the relationship with Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) to ensure effective risk management and agreeing and implementing improvement actions where needed​ Finance ​ Have oversight of DWP Digital budget (over £1bn) and headcount (circa 7000+) ​ In close collaboration with Finance colleagues, drive budget conversations to ensure we get the funding we need to deliver on our priorities​ Mature our financial and budget management approaches, ensuring alignment with Cabinet Office and Treasury requirements, and supporting colleagues to navigate these requirements ​ Work with our Commercial Director to ensure we achieve value for money from our suppliers​ Provide high level policy, strategic, budgetary and delivery advice to the CDIO ​ Digital Capability and Capacity ​ Work in partnership with DWP People & Capability, and build strong relationships, acting as an intelligent customer, to lead capability and capacity development in DWP Digital and Transformation, building a diverse and professional workforce ​ Attract, build, and develop the best digital talent, creating a strong talent and resourcing strategy, utilising our Digital Academy and making sure we have the right mix of civil servants, and cost-effective arrangements for contractors, outsourced arrangements, apprenticeships, and internships​ Lead professionalisation within the group, engaging with partners to create strong capability pipelines, accreditation and secondment opportunities to increase experience and skills​ Lead the Business Services Practice in Digital Group, developing capability across this group of people to ensure that the business of Digital is well managed, safe and effective ​ Communications and Engagement ​ Bring the Business plan and Digital strategy and vision to life, leading a communications and engagement team to ensure a strong communication and engagement strategy is in place that keeps our people informed and engaged and builds a culture where our people can thrive in a positive, supportive and professional community​

Key Responsibilities Agile Programme Management: Ensuring clear models and structures and tools in place to enable multi-team working against a single service plan and backlog. Providing direction of approach, consistent tooling, coaching and consistent formats to support effective planning, breakdown of work, reporting and ensuring the embedding of agile practices such as retrospectives and sprint planning. Commercial and Financial management supporting value for money and managing multiple supplier relationships. Keeping a Focus on Outcome Delivery: Working with Head of Product and Chief Technical Officer to jointly assure digital development plans to ensure these are aligned to the roadmap, achievable and clearly communicated. Ensuring that all elements of service delivery, including operational readiness and supporting guidance, are included and tracking progress to manage risks to delivery. Digital Leadership: Direct leading of the delivery roles in the Digital and IT teams. Ensuring all digital teams work in alignment to the single service roadmap and balancing quality and pace of delivery and that the work is visible and well reported to enable effective risk and dependency management and provide clear views against progress. Stakeholder Engagement: Working in close collaboration with teams across IBCA and wider stakeholders to ensure clarity of plans and buy-in to digital delivery and IT strategies. Embedding Agile Approaches: Supporting the development of an agile and service orientated mindset across the whole organisation. Ensuring visual and open working standards and advocating for test and learn approaches. Embedding and ensuring adherence to government service standards across digital teams. IT Strategy and Provision: Ensuring effective provision of IT infrastructure, hardware and software through a coherent strategy. Liaising with IBCA teams to understand and forecast requirements and managing commercial arrangements and working with CO Digital partners to put these in place to agreed levels.

As the Head of Product for , you’ll be responsible for growing and leading the high performing product teams in the directorate. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering critical government products and services to key stakeholders: citizens and government departments. These products operate at significant scale, are impactful through supporting citizens across every interaction with government, and are built collaboratively with government department partners to ensure these interactions are as simple and efficient as possible. Reporting to the Deputy Director - Web, Publishing, Platform & Design System, you will develop a sustainable and engaged product community, who work together towards a common goal through strategic objectives and shared community goals, sharing learning and ideas openly. You’ll also be a key member of the Senior Management Team, leading on initiatives taking place across the directorate. You’ll thrive using agile methods and enjoy working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams. Above all, you’ll want to make government better, which may sometimes involve challenging the status quo. As a Head of Product, you’ll: contribute to a clear product vision, with key focus on balancing operational and iterative product development with innovation that meets or exceeds our growth strategy develop and drive an everyday culture of experimentation across all product teams, balancing experimentation of innovative experiences with operational efficiencies. provide ongoing direction and leadership for multi-disciplinary product teams in running, supporting and continuously improving products, so that they meet user needs while working toward measurable objectives and data driven outcomes. lead on OKR development and product roadmaps that support both strategic development and operational delivery be a visible leader who takes responsibility, while supporting the wellbeing and professional development of the product community in support ’s Deputy Directors in the implementation of strategic initiatives and delivery of operational challenges

A Software Engineer designs, runs, tests and improve software that meets the user’s needs. You are responsible for writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach. You will create a code that is open by default and easy for others to use. A senior developer delivers and integrates complicated or higher risk software to form a complete service. Responsibilities The role will include: Plan and lead development of software solutions for sets of related stories Have an understanding of the whole system and take responsibility for teaching this to others. Work with other disciplines to understand what needs to be built. Coach and mentor others Configure, build, and implement a continuous delivery environment, using effective delivery and deployment techniques. Operate the production services they build. Find ways to improve system robustness, resilience, and stability. Design and execute a range of test techniques.

The ServiceNow Development Manager acts as a bridge between business needs and technical solutions, ensuring the effective utilization of the ServiceNow platform to drive business value. You will be at the heart of driving business value to Defra through the delivery of capabilities and services delivered through the ServiceNow platform. You will join the highly motivated and professional Service Tooling team at a time when business demand on the ServiceNow platform is increasing, managing development activity across multiple ServiceNow Capabilities such as ITSM , ITAM , SPM, CSM, WSD, HRSD and BCM. The ServiceNow Development Manager oversees the development, implementation, and maintenance of ServiceNow solutions within an organisation. They are responsible for managing a team of 14 developers and system administrators, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget, and aligning development efforts with strategic goals. Additional responsibilities involves stakeholder management, strategic planning, promoting best practice and driving continuous improvement of the ServiceNow platform. Please note this post requires Security Check (SC) clearance. To gain (SC) clearance all applicants are required to have been a UK resident for a minimum of 5 years. Check out the video below to hear more from one of our colleagues in the ServiceNow team!

A data architect designs and builds data models to fulfil the strategic data needs of the organisation, as defined by the Chief Data Architect. As Senior Data Architect you will also deliver the vision for the organisation as set by the Chief Data Architect. You will also be instrumental in the definition of technology roadmaps that are aligned to business and IT strategy that support business change, and you will define the Master Data Strategy and the Data Archival Strategy for operational data. This is a role and as a technology specialist, you’ll work at the cutting edge of how people interact and are empowered by digital government services. Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to: Work closely with the Chief Data Architect to interpret strategic data needs and translate them into actionable architecture artefacts. Define and maintain the enterprise data architecture, encompassing data models, metadata standards, integration patterns, and structures to support business intelligence and data warehousing. Actively participate in governance forums such as the Architecture Review Board and Data Governance Board, while identifying and escalating any data-related risks, blockers, or deviations from agreed standards. Collaborate across teams to ensure clarity, uphold documentation standards, and support the delivery of strategic data initiatives. Join us for a Town Hall session Thursday 4th September at 4pm where we can answer your questions about the Senior Data Architect role, the team and projects, and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. Please email for the joining link.

The Police and Public Protection Technology Portfolio (PPPT), part of the Home Office’s Digital Data and Technology (DDaT), delivers digital solutions for policing and public protection. Serving all UK police forces and over 20 law enforcement agencies, PPPT designs, builds, and supports major transformation programmes like NLEDP and HOB. It also maintains critical systems such as the Police National Computer (PNC) and Police National Database (PND), and leads infrastructure upgrades like LECN and LECP. Within PPPT, the National Communications Data Service (NCDS) ensures communications data is accessible and operationally valuable amid ongoing technical and business change. You will transform business requirements into secure, scalable, and future-proof technical architectures in this role. You’ll work in agile, collaborative environments to design and deliver services that meet user needs and strategic goals. You will guide stakeholders through technical decisions, ensuring alignment with governance and assurance processes, and championing continuous improvement and innovation. You will be knowledgeable in AWS systems and products; knowledge of other cloud providers would also be beneficial. You will have an understanding and ideally experience in managing and administering AWS based infrastructure platforms providing an enabling function to a business unit. It would be beneficial to have knowledge and experience in the Telecommunications domain particularly in the underlying networks and systems.

A Lead Technical Architect (Solutions) leads at the highest level and is responsible for making sure the strategy is agreed and followed. At this role level, you will: Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across organisations. Proactively seek opportunities for digital transformation. Support multiple teams, finding and using best practice and emerging technologies. Inspire other architects and help them understand how to deliver the goals of the organisation. Be responsible for governance, solving complex and high risk issues or delivering architecture design.

This role sits in the Digital Delivery team which is responsible for the maintenance and continuous improvement of GLD’s existing products and services, and the development of new digital services to support GLD staff working across government. Your main day-to-day responsibilities will include: Leading the business analysis function in agile delivery teams working on multiple products and services, including M365, ServiceNow and GLD’s legal practice management system Working with key stakeholders across the business to identify and address business and user problems, ensuring solutions are aligned to strategic business objectives Using analysis insights to provide options and recommendations for improvements, inform priorities and shape the teams’ activities Mapping processes, user interactions, and data flows to support the product and delivery objectives of the team Ensuring that epics and stories are well documented and contain suitable acceptance criteria to support development and test activity Assisting with functional testing of completed user stories, ensuring they meet requirements, and documenting and managing defects as they arise Line managing and supporting the development of a more junior business analyst Building a community of practice and championing best practice in business analysis

You'll join a dynamic scrum team focused on transforming our automated testing approach for Companies House services. You will encourage an automated first approach. We've recently migrated from Java/Selenium and BDD frameworks to the state-of-the-art Playwright/TypeScript stack, integrated with BrowserStack Automate. As a key member, you'll take ownership of our test strategy, emphasising automation. You'll collaborate closely with the team to drive quality throughout development.

This role has dual functionality with unique responsibilities: As a Data Analyst you will have access to one of the biggest data platforms in UK government. This will enable you to lead on the exploration of a range of sophisticated data sets using a variety of analytical tools and techniques. You’ll work with teams across HMRC, enabling you to be at the forefront of tax fraud, evasion, and avoidance. Your analysis will support frontline colleagues across HMRC to deliver our Compliance strategy. You will need to have real passion for analysis, an innovative approach and be able to enhance analytical products to maximise revenue. You’ll fully exploit new data and technology to ensure that a wide set of innovative opportunities are explored, evaluating options, impacts, risks, and solutions to provide clear problem definitions. This opportunity will give you the skills to help us identify and predict patterns of behaviour to understand emerging trends. As a Test Engineer this role will enable you to become a Subject Matter Expert in the areas of Connect source data, data delivery pipeline and the risk assurance and QAQC standards. You’ll create testing scripts and lead peers through testing periods, and support workstream leads on key deliverables in areas of risk involving macros, investigating and resolving coding issues, working with stakeholders to quality assure the fixes before deployment. You’ll be responsible for a range of complex analytical projects, ensuring each meets business and technical requirements, and quality standards. Developing a thorough understanding of the end-to-end process for Change and Data Delivery will provide background for your work. Data Analysis Using a variety of software to analyse and interpret data to come up with conclusions and recommendations. Ensuring a set of innovative opportunities are explored; evaluating options, impacts, risks, and solutions to provide transparent problem definitions and encourage exploitation of data and technology. Working with collaborators to identify and clarify the overall scope and requirements of the analytical work. Identifying and sharing best practice and continuously reviewing our business processes, proactively using analysis to improve our insight and the products we provide. Summarising and presenting data and conclusions in the most appropriate format for users Test Engineering Designing, building and testing data products based on feeds from multiple systems, using a range of different storage technologies, access methods or both. Creating repeatable and reusable products. Explain the concepts and principles of data modelling. Produce, maintain and update relevant data models for an organisation’s specific needs. Reverse-engineer data models from a live system.

All staff across the FCDO expect modern tools and systems to help them deliver impact globally. The FCDO’s Information & Digital Directorate (IDD) provides digital, data and technology services. Our Enterprise Data Service (EDS) Department provides specialist data services to support users across the organisation in the delivery of consistent and trusted data, using a range of tools, to inform better decisions and outcomes. The EDS consists of data architects, engineers and governance specialists who support data architecture and governance activities, and data strategy across the FCDO. The Data Architecture Function is a key pillar of the EDS and is led directly by the Chief Data Architect. The function defines the processes, standards, rules and tools which govern what data is collected, how it is categorised, classified and organised, stored, accessed and integrated, and how it is presented to the organisation for analysis and reporting. This defines the FCDO Data Architecture Blueprint which helps the FCDO deliver organisational strategic priorities defined in the Data Strategy, through robust data management principals and design, and our data architecture consultancy services. Roles and responsibilities The successful candidate will: Become an expert in one or more core FCDO data domains. You will understand, catalogue and model data, data flows, metadata and data interactions. This is a diverse role, hands on and consultative as required, driving towards automation and data community democratisation, with the Data Architecture Function delivering the standards, practices and tools. Work with product delivery teams and technical architects to ensure that systems, solutions, reporting and data are designed in accordance with the Data Architecture Blueprint and deliver assured data patterns that can be reused across FCDO. Support the Chief Data Architect in delivering optimal data architecture design, principles, processes, standards and tools to the FCDO. Tools will encompass data cataloguing, master data management, data quality, data marketplace and data modelling etc. Initially using the MS Azure stack, but more widely Oracle and AWS estates. You will gain experience of data and technologies across our multi-cloud infrastructure as your experience grows and you will be encouraged and supported in your development. Drive FCDO data product teams, through suitable tooling, guardrails, policy and standards, to define and manage the FCDO “single source of the truth”. You will have the opportunity to gain valuable experience across all these areas initially using the Azure stack, with MS Purview, but also across FCDO’s multi-cloud platforms. Proactively collaborate with professional data communities across FCDO on data architecture and data standards. Collaborate with colleagues across UK government to help FCDO become a visible and positive contributor to data architecture. Have a Practitioner level understanding of the data infrastructure, architecture, definitions and models which underpin a broad range of business domains, including finance, people, diplomacy, programme, commercial and delivery / performance. Provide the organisation with the tools and techniques to support Data Governance and Data Stewardship, and the well-designed data infrastructure which defines our “single source of the truth”. Candidates who secure a role that is considered specialist or technical, may be required to affiliate to the relevant specialist network, if not already a member. Candidate Engagement Calls We will be running two Candidate Engagement Calls on Tuesday 2nd September and Monday 15th September. During the calls, you will have the opportunity to ask any further questions about these roles. Please do come along if of interest, both sessions will cover the same areas so you will only need to join one. You can join the call on Tuesday 2nd September at 15:00pm BST You can join the call on Monday 15th September at 15:00pm BST