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As an Apprentice Infrastructure Engineer , you’ll join a group of new apprentices working towards a Level 4 Digital Infrastructure Engineer qualification (find out more here: ). Over 24 months, you’ll be supported every step of the way helping you achieve your apprenticeship while building highly sought-after technical skills. Alongside your formal learning, you’ll gain hands on experience with our talented Infrastructure teams and a range of specialist technical teams who deliver cloud-based solutions across Companies House and support for the last remaining on-premise infrastructure. Through regular rotations, you’ll see the full breadth of infrastructure engineering roles and work with a variety of technologies that shape how we operate. During your apprenticeship, you’ll grow your capabilities across key areas such as: Information security - understanding security principles and the controls used to protect systems and services. IT infrastructure - supporting a wide range of technologies including compute, storage, networking, physical and cloud infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), COTS, and opensource solutions. Developing modern industry standards - learning why up-to-date development and technical standards matter and how to apply them. Ownership and initiative - learning how to investigate issues, document your findings and work with your team to resolve them. Problem management - exploring how to identify and assess problems across systems, processes and services at strategic, tactical or operational levels. Systems design - contributing to the design of components within larger digital systems. Systems integration - understanding how systems connect, the challenges involved, and how to build and test effective interfaces. Troubleshooting - developing your diagnostic skills and learning how to apply basic troubleshooting techniques across a range of technologies. As you progress through the apprenticeship, you’ll gain hands-on experience in: Core Cloud & Automation Skills Terraform – building, managing, and automating infrastructure as code. AWS Cloud Infrastructure – deploying, securing, scaling, and operating cloud platforms. Docker – containerising applications and managing lightweight, portable environments. CI/CD Pipelines – understanding automated build, test and deployment workflows using tools commonly used in Companies House. Version Control (Git) – managing source code, collaborating through branches and pull requests. Additional Technical Skills You might also get the opportunity to learn more about: Programming Languages – exposure to languages used at Companies House, such as Java, Node.js and Python, plus scripting basics. SQL & MongoDB – querying, modelling, and working with relational and nonrelational databases. Unix/Linux – essential command line usage, system administration and troubleshooting. Networking Fundamentals – understanding VPCs, subnets, routing, firewalls and connectivity in cloud environments. Storage Technologies – object storage (e.g., S3), block storage, file systems, encryption and backup concepts. Monitoring & Observability – logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards and incident response principles. Security Foundations (DevSecOps) – identity & access management, secrets handling, vulnerability awareness and secure-by-design thinking. You’ll benefit from additional core skills development, a supportive apprentice community, onsite parking, an onsite gym, and a variety of active social groups across Companies House. You’re joining us at a time of exciting transformation, and you’ll play a real part in shaping how our systems evolve for the future.

A Lead Technical Architect 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.

At the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), we take testing very seriously and we automate as much as we can. Our SDETs are building best-in-class test automation software so that we can build products quickly and safely. You will be a critical part of a squad following a behaviour-driven design approach (ATDD). You will love to code and to test in equal measure and challenge us to increase the scope of our Continuous Testing. We use Cucumber with Ruby for most of our testing. Our systems under test are usually Dockerised or Serverless applications. In this dynamic role you will be part of an engineering team accountable for continually driving all aspects of quality improvements. You will be working in one of our delivery teams or as part of the dedicated independent testing team. Our automation frameworks primarily use Cucumber with Ruby, and the systems we test are typically Dockerised or based on serverless architectures. This is a dynamic position where you will contribute to an engineering team committed to improving all aspects of software quality. You may work within one of our delivery teams or as part of our dedicated independent testing function. Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to: Plan and lead development on sets of related stories Coach and mentor more junior colleagues Understand and be proficient in different types of testing Write clean, maintainable automated testing code For further information on the role, please read the attached 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.

Principal Data Engineers lead multi-functional delivery teams to deliver robust data services for their department, other government departments and private sector partners. Through technical direction and leadership, you will create and nurture an environment that emphasises motivation, empowerment, teamwork, continuous improvement and a passion for providing service. You will work with other members of the data community to set the enterprise data strategy and standards and agree implementation and governance. Main Responsibilities Your main day to day responsibilities will be: Providing technical direction and leadership within the Data Platform team to maximise its effectiveness and inspire best practice for data products and services. Developing capabilities in tools and techniques to analyse large/big data-sets and from multiple/complex sources that will enable broader Data Science models and algorithms to uncover insights, trends, and patterns in the data. Leading in defining our data strategy and roadmap influenced by future technology changes and implemented through best practice and governance. Managing stakeholders at all levels, including facilitating discussions around complex topics and managing performance expectations. Initiating and facilitating partnership with other technical and non-technical departments and outside of government to champion data engineering and help them understand how data solutions can benefit them while ensuring easy and effective access to data resources. Building the data engineering capability through coaching and mentoring other Data Engineers. Working Pattern Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis. However, are available.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for Hybrid Cloud Services, you will be capable of role modelling Infrastructure solutions which adhere to best practice, with a focus on operational stability, resilience, and availability. This position will collaborate with Architects, Site Reliability Engineers, Delivery Managers, and Product Managers, who all support the implementation and operation of Cloud hosted products and services. We ensure that we’re aligned to the Department's Technical Reference Architecture (TRA) and Security and Compliance Standards in all stages of development and delivery. This is an exciting time to be part of what is effectively an enterprise-scale tech company in the heart of government. Role & Responsibilities Support the design and implementation of Public Cloud infrastructure services/solutions to meet strategic plans and roadmaps. Responsible for operational management of Public Cloud hosted technologies, products, and services, with a focus on security, availability, resilience, and performance. Provide specialist service or solution technical support and assistance to junior staff and users and undertake line management responsibilities. Development and implementation of service improvement plans to address identified issues for Public Cloud hosted technologies, products, and services. Responsibility for management and resolution of Incidents for Public Cloud hosted technologies, products, and services.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for Hybrid Cloud Services, you will be capable of role modelling Infrastructure solutions which adhere to best practice, with a focus on operational stability, resilience, and availability. This position will collaborate with Architects, Site Reliability Engineers, Delivery Managers, and Product Managers, who all support the implementation and operation of Cloud hosted products and services. We ensure that we’re aligned to the Department's Technical Reference Architecture (TRA) and Security and Compliance Standards in all stages of development and delivery. This is an exciting time to be part of what is effectively an enterprise-scale tech company in the heart of government. Role & Responsibilities Support the design and implementation of Public Cloud infrastructure services/solutions to meet strategic plans and roadmaps. Responsible for operational management of Public Cloud hosted technologies, products, and services, with a focus on security, availability, resilience, and performance. Provide specialist service or solution technical support and assistance to junior staff and users and undertake line management responsibilities. Development and implementation of service improvement plans to address identified issues for Public Cloud hosted technologies, products, and services. Responsibility for management and resolution of Incidents for Public Cloud hosted technologies, products, and services.

You will be responsible for setting the vision for the services that you own and for delivering the technical roadmap(s) for key teams within the Corporate IT & Services Division. Leading your teams you will be empowered to be creative whilst focusing on delivering a high-quality service to all your stakeholders. You will need to be both innovative and have the passion to lead changes from the front. You will collaborate with your colleagues in the IT Service Management profession, 3rd party suppliers, as well as internal Business and Technical stakeholders, developing and maintaining key relationships with all. Using your experience and expertise of service delivery and managing IT Services, you will be the escalation point for IT related incidents as well as facilitating Major IT Incidents. Leveraging ONS’ IT Service Management Toolset, you will ensure incidents, requests and changes adhere to their support processes within service level agreements (SLA). You will effectively manage the balance between business as usual (BAU) activities and demands of Project Delivery. You will be responsible for collating and interpreting management information from various data sources for upward cascade. Responsibilities Collaborate across various Technical Support teams, 3rd party suppliers, Business Stakeholders and Senior Management, ensuring the IT Service Management processes are followed and relevant operational level agreement (OLA), Service level agreements (SLAs) or Key performance Indicators (KPIs) are met. Develop relationships with the Corporate Delivery Teams, playing a proactive role as a key stakeholder, ensuring minimal impact to live services you are responsible for. Present management information on the status and performance of the service to Senior Management and key stakeholders across the Business. Lead continuous improvement activities across all processes. Driving quality and productivity with a focus on automation where appropriate. Play an active role in wider communities of practice, identifying and sharing best practice. Give direction on which tools or methods to use and be experienced in meeting the needs of users across a variety of channels.

What you’ll do as a Software Development apprentice You’ll work alongside IT professionals within one of our multidisciplinary software development teams. All our software development teams across Companies House work together to make our services better. You’ll also develop skills and knowledge in software development, programming, testing, website development, cyber security, communication and organisational skills. You’ll learn how to develop software using highly sought after technologies including AWS, Typescript, Java, and Spring Boot. We encourage our software developers to be active members of our developer community. You will benefit from being able to learn from highly experienced engineers and be able to gain industry experience whilst studying. We also offer funding and support for further learning and conference attendance, for those who wish to take up the opportunity. Your training and qualification You’ll receive a fully funded place on the BSc Applied Software Engineering degree course at Cardiff Metropolitan University. More information on the university can be found on the and a For more information on the course please visit: To gain the Level 6 apprenticeship, you’ll need to successfully complete all required elements of the degree programme. You’ll also receive on the job training and support from the Software Engineering profession within Companies House.

As Service Owner (Data Maturity), you will have end-to-end accountability for the Data Maturity Service used across government. You will own and evolve the service to ensure it delivers meaningful, decision-ready insight that drives real improvement and underpins delivery of the Blueprint for Modern Digital Government, the Strategic Data Roadmap and the AI Opportunity Action Plan. act as Head of the Data Maturity Service, accountable for end-to-end service performance, adoption, outcomes and continuous improvement define and maintain a clear service proposition, covering how departments are supported to undertake assessments, interpret results and prioritise improvement lead the transition from compliance-led, episodic assessments to a proportionate, insight-driven service focused on priority capability gaps own and embed a capability-based data maturity model that is credible, understandable and consistently applied across government ensure assessments generate decision-ready insight, informing departmental prioritisation and cross-government strategy use maturity insight to identify systemic barriers and opportunities for collective action build strong, trusted relationships with departmental CDOs, senior data leaders and transformation teams oversee digital tooling supporting the service, ensuring technology enables insight and usability rather than driving the model represent the Data Maturity Service in cross-government forums, including CDO Council activity lead and develop the OCDO data maturity team accountable for what happens with insight, not just its collection

As the Senior IT Service Manager for One Login, you will provide the strategic leadership, vision and direction needed to build an industry leading service management capability that operates effectively at national scale. Reporting to the Head of Live Services for One Login, you will be accountable for shaping how government services experience, adopt and rely on One Login, ensuring that service quality, resilience and user experience remain consistently high across a diverse and rapidly expanding ecosystem. You will lead the development of a coherent, future focused service management strategy that supports One Login’s long-term ambitions and the needs of the wider government landscape. This includes defining or refining the operating model, governance structures, assurance frameworks and performance measures that will underpin a mature, scalable and data driven service management function. You will ensure that the differing technical, operational and support requirements of relying parties are understood, prioritised and translated into clear service outcomes, enabling each service to onboard, operate and evolve with confidence. Your role will involve close partnership with senior leaders and staff across Product, Architecture, Service Transition, Operational Support, Data and Security teams. You will act as a voice for service excellence, ensuring that service considerations are embedded into decision making, delivery planning and change processes across the One Login service. You will also represent One Login at cross government forums where necessary, shaping expectations, influencing direction and ensuring alignment with broader digital and identity strategies. As a senior leader for the service management function within One Login, you will shape and develop IT Service Managers, Service Relationship Managers and other service capability teams. You will foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and customer-centricity, ensuring that teams are empowered, skilled and supported to deliver high quality services. You will champion best practice, drive standardisation and ensure that service management evolves in line with industry standards, emerging technologies and the needs of government. Ultimately, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that One Login delivers a reliable, secure and seamless experience for millions of users and hundreds of government services, now and in the future. As a Senior IT Service Manager you’ll be: accountable for the end-to-end strategic service experience for all relying parties, ensuring that government services adopting One Login receive a consistent, high quality and resilient service that meets their operational, technical and security needs at national scale. building and maintaining relationships across government, acting as the primary strategic partner for Relying Party leadership teams. You will ensure their priorities, risks and future needs are understood, anticipated and reflected in service planning, investment decisions and roadmap development. shaping and governing the relying party lifecycle, identifying structural gaps, systemic issues and opportunities for improvement across onboarding, transition, live service and ongoing optimisation. You will drive the evolution of these processes from a service perspective to ensure they are efficient, scalable and aligned to One Login’s long-term ambitions. leading continuous improvement across the entire service ecosystem, using data, insight and user feedback to enhance service performance, simplify interactions, reduce friction and improve the overall experience for relying parties. setting direction and standards for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plan, aligning with industry standards, mapping approach, templates and setting approach for ongoing improvements through testing and lessons learned exercises. acting as the senior point of escalation for critical service issues, ensuring that major incidents, risks and cross government challenges are managed effectively. You will provide authoritative input into governance boards, service forums and strategic decision making groups. overseeing and sponsoring service reviews, audits, incident investigations and improvement programmes, ensuring that lessons are embedded, systemic issues are addressed and service maturity continues to advance. driving the evolution of the One Login service management model, working closely with Product, Architecture, Service Transition, Operational Support, Data and Security to ensure service management is embedded into design, delivery and operational practices across the organisation. providing leadership, direction and development to IT Service Managers, Service Relationship Managers and other service capability teams, ensuring they are empowered, skilled and aligned to a shared vision of service excellence.

The Enterprise Architecture function, and the architects that work within it, exist to define how technology will be used to transform the UK public sector: ensuring that common tools, standards and shared services exist to reduce duplication and improve efficient use of technology; providing the guardrails that enable government departments to innovate the future safely; and to provide the roadmaps of core foundational technologies that are common across central and local government, the NHS, Police, as well as 400+ agencies and other bodies. You will be aligned to a Grade 6 Enterprise Architect who will mentor and support you as well as set you challenging tasks to further your team’s objectives. Your team is responsible for the Digital Architecture of Government. You will: Undertake research, input into and shape a 10-year intent and strategy for our future digital architecture, and how departments systems will interact or share from each other Identify and develop architectural principles, guardrails and governance, forming and leading a group of technologists from across the UK Public Sector to embed these and help them thrive Work alongside vendors to create a vibrant market of shared capabilities for UK Public Sector customers, and with Crown Commercial Service in commercial engagements with vendors Build a network of peers across UK Public Sector to regularly engage with Promote your work through content written for , speaking engagements and hosting community events Help upskill others in GDS and DSIT in your specialist area The above list of job duties is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post. Our roles have a scale and impact unlike many others: we are routinely involved in commercial engagements worth £billions, respond to pan-Government technology questions from ministers, and provide advice to other international governments. Please don’t let this sound intimidating; if you could see yourself in this role, we’d like to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities Operating as part of the Functional Senior Leadership Team to promote and embed the Digital Strategy Defence. As part of the Functional Leadership operating model this post is responsible for leading strategic change, including implementing and governing standards, for technology, AI and architecture across Defence. Responsible for setting the architectural compliance that all digital projects across defence must comply with, using the CTO Council to bring the CTOs from Defence together to build relationships across Defence, International Partners, HMG and Suppliers and ensure understanding and strategic thinking across the group, prioritising core activities and agree the delivery aims from business initiatives and external influencers. Technology & Futures Lead innovation efforts to access and integrate emerging technologies, such as AI and Quantum, to support Defence Strategy at pace. Collaborate across the Function, wider Defence, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and government to align innovation with business relevance and strategic goals. Technology Exploitation Develop and oversee the compliance framework that ensures a continual evolution of modern capability that drives cohesion, integration, and interoperability, including exploitation of cloud. Manage the relationships across Defence and with relevant, high-profile, external stakeholders (including industry, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the Five Eyes (FVEY) community to strengthen relevance and access innovation. Define the technology compliance expectations. With Director Cyber Defence and Risk, ensure security technology fits with wider technology architecture. Define the technology compliance expectations. With Director Cyber Defence and Risk, ensure security technology fits with wider technology architecture. Tech Governance and Risk Maintain and evolve a common enterprise technical architecture with supporting standards in explicit support of strategic outcomes. Maintain a supporting implementation plan and propose / agree the funding and oversee delivery. Manage the Architecture cadre, ensure its health and application to drive standards. Own the vision and design of a common digital technology architecture to support Defence Strategy, working with leaders across the function. Foundry, Digital Services Lead the Digital Foundry (which is a software factory) and change capability that promotes the ability to build software solutions at pace and which demonstrates modernity. Support the Foundry to drive pace on exploitation and re-use of common technology. Drive up maturity of digital platforms and their use pan Defence.

As a Senior Business Analyst, you’ll lead small to medium projects and contribute to larger programmes by owning key requirements. You’ll align outcomes with service vision and business strategy, supporting product iteration and optimisation. You’ll build strong stakeholder relationships, challenge constructively, and act as a critical voice to ensure fit-for-purpose solutions. Working independently or collaboratively, you’ll demonstrate a solid understanding of your domain. You’ll also help shape future business models and contribute to business architecture strategy. As an active member of the Business Analysis community, you’ll share best practices and mentor others to support professional growth and capability development.

Your responsibilities will include: Designing and implementing new network services to meet the evolving needs of the Cabinet Office. Be a crucial point of escalation for our Live Service, diving deep into root cause analysis and finding effective solutions. Guiding and mentoring junior engineers, creating a collaborative and growth oriented team environment. Managing and supporting our wireless LAN and WAN, including network and security devices. Maintaining and enhancing our network infrastructure services, including switching, routing and firewalls, while sharing your expertise. Working with cutting edge cloud technologies, contributing to the migration of existing systems and the implementation of innovative new solutions. Integrating and improving our existing processing systems to enhance performance. Maintaining the integrity, availability, performance and capacity of our networking infrastructure. Carrying out change control activities with precision and documenting our network infrastructure. Working within technical compliance frameworks, including PSN and Cloud computing. Curious about Government Digital and Data? Dive into the Candidate Pack to learn more: ()

What you’ll do as a Software Development apprentice You’ll work alongside IT professionals within one of our multidisciplinary software development teams. All our software development teams across Companies House work together to make our services better. You’ll also develop skills and knowledge in software development, programming, testing, website development, cyber security, communication and organisational skills. You’ll learn how to develop software using highly sought after technologies including AWS, Typescript, Java, and Spring Boot. We encourage our software developers to be active members of our developer community. You will benefit from being able to learn from highly experienced engineers and be able to gain industry experience whilst studying. We also offer funding and support for further learning and conference attendance, for those who wish to take up the opportunity. Your training and qualification You’ll receive a fully funded place on the BSc Applied Software Engineering degree course at Cardiff Metropolitan University. More information on the university can be found on the and a For more information on the course please visit: To gain the Level 6 apprenticeship, you’ll need to successfully complete all required elements of the degree programme. You’ll also receive on the job training and support from the Software Engineering profession within Companies House.

As Head of IT Service Management, you will be responsible for setting the vision and strategy for service management, ensuring processes are owned and maturing. You will lead a team ensuring adequate resources and capacity and represent the IT service management function at a senior level and act as an escalation point for business stakeholders. Reporting Line This role will report into Allan Graham Scope and Impact Level of responsibility, decision-making authority, and influence. Person specification B&T Live Services ensures stability, resilience, and operational excellence across HMRC’s live platforms. We manage end-to-end service operations, including Incident, Change, Problem, and Risk Management, to maintain availability and performance while proactively mitigating risks. Our team leads major incident resolution, service mapping, and capacity planning to minimise business and customer impact. We also oversee Release and Implementation Management, 24/7 Operations using advanced monitoring, and smooth onboarding of new services. Working closely with suppliers and commercial teams, we manage budgets, forecast operational costs, and maintain governance to deliver uninterrupted, high-quality services.