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As a Principal Technical Architect, you will define and execute the technical strategy for your responsibility, collaborating with senior leadership and diverse teams to ensure alignment with organisational, cross-departmental, and government-wide objectives. You will proactively seek opportunities to leverage emerging technologies such as cloud, AI, and IoT. You will ensure that technical solutions are secure, user-focused, and capable of adapting to evolving business needs. You will lead the design and review processes for complex systems and infrastructure, championing architectural best practices and governance. By bridging technical and business perspectives, you will resolve high-risk issues and shape initiatives that drive transformation. Your role includes guiding and inspiring other architects, facilitating professional growth, and establishing an environment where innovative thinking thrives.

Key responsibilities Lead a multi‑disciplinary workforce of ~120 civil servants, contractors and suppliers, setting clear direction, building capability, and recruiting and retaining critical skills. Provide clear senior reporting and assurance, keeping the HOB SRO and Director of PPPT fully informed of progress, risks and key developments. Build strong strategic partnerships across the Home Office (Migration and Borders, Public Safety, Homeland Security, Science, Data and Identity) and with policing leaders, PCCs, Chief Constables, NPCC and wider law‑enforcement partners. Support police forces through technology migration, ensuring effective consultation, adoption and maximised utilisation of new biometric capabilities. Deliver the programme to plan and strategic intent, managing milestones, scope and the transition to a sustainable successor organisation to operate and enhance live biometric services. Maintain strong programme control and governance, managing risks, dependencies and change; working with internal and external suppliers to deliver outcomes, share risk, drive innovation and ensure alignment with Home Office data and technology standards.

Key responsibilities Lead and direct national police IT services, managing a multi‑skilled team of ~90 people to deliver departmental and operational outcomes in a complex stakeholder and priority landscape. Ensure services are safe, secure and available, working closely with senior policing leaders and Directors across the Public Safety Mission and DDaT functions. Set and champion product‑led strategy and roadmaps, aligning priorities with departmental and policing goals while managing cross‑portfolio dependencies and user impacts. Provide clear strategic direction and decision support, communicating options, trade‑offs and risks to senior law‑enforcement stakeholders to enable informed decisions. Drive efficiency, quality and technical sustainability, reducing technical debt through reuse of common components, strong design standards, effective testing and best‑practice product management. Maintain robust governance and assurance, balancing operational demand, delivery timelines and live‑service considerations, leading people through change and deputising for the Director of Policing and Public Protection Technology as required.

Key responsibilities Lead and direct a multi‑skilled organisation (~250 staff) delivering, sustaining and transforming national police legacy data services into modern, scalable, secure and sustainable platforms. Own service safety, availability and risk by working closely with senior policing leaders, Public Safety Mission directors and DDaT functions, enabling informed decision‑making through clear options and trade‑offs. Set and champion product‑led strategy and roadmaps, aligning product direction with departmental and policing priorities while managing cross‑portfolio dependencies and multi‑level delivery impacts. Ensure coherent, joined‑up design and technical integrity, enforcing standards, reducing technical debt, promoting reuse of common capabilities, and prioritising work against agreed risk appetite and programme demand. Drive efficiency, quality and value for money across live services (including Hendon and DRS), implementing best‑practice product management, cost control, governance, assurance, and scalable automated testing. Provide senior leadership through change, fostering a high‑performance, collaborative culture focused on capability growth and continuous improvement, and deputising for the Director of the National Law Enforcement Data Portfolio as required.

Main duties consist of but are not limited to: Facilitate Agile Ceremonies : stand-ups, planning, retrospectives, and reviews to maintain momentum and foster continuous improvement. Team Planning & Prioritisation : Support the team in estimating, tracking, and delivering priorities, ensuring alignment with business goals. Stakeholder Collaboration : Work closely with the Product Manager and technical stakeholders to understand priorities and dependencies. Workflow : Oversee the daily flow of work items, ensuring progression from backlog to delivery, using flow metrics where appropriate to enhance predictability and efficiency. Reporting & Insights : Track and report against key milestones and forecasts, providing clear visibility on team progress. Programme-Level Engagement : Represent the team in programme-level sessions, articulating updates, risks, and dependencies. Risk & Issue Management : Identify and address risks promptly, ensuring mitigation plans are in place. Incident Response : Act as a key escalation point during live incidents, helping to coordinate resolution and communication. Removing Blockers : Proactively address obstacles that hinder team performance and ensure a clear pathway for delivery. Continuous Improvement : Drive team maturity in agile delivery practices, fostering a culture of learning and adaptation. Cross-Team Dependencies : Understand and manage dependencies with other teams and workstreams across the programme. Ensure smooth integration and alignment of delivery plans.

Our Digital and Data technology team are at the forefront of digital innovation. They provide best in-class solutions for our clients, helping to shape and support a data driven future for UK government. Whether it’s creating bespoke, secure software, offering programme and application support or moving an entire embassy’s servers to a Cloud platform. No matter the task, they are on hand to support. Now, you’ve got the opportunity to join them. Providing innovation to government partners. Delivering best-in-class solutions. Working at the cutting-edge of technology It all matters. Work to maintain the security and efficiency of our global IT operation When you join us in this vital senior role, you’ll focus on supporting the successful delivery of high-quality services as you work with our customers to resolve any issues and incidents that occur, assess and steer change, and coordinate and lead our delivery teams as they work on short and long-term solutions. You’ll be working closely with Project Managers, Product Owners and Technical Architects, and in addition to developing a strong understanding of our customers’ requirements, you’ll also ensure they’re within our organisation’s technical capabilities and capacity. Leading investigations into problems and opportunities relating to existing processes, you’ll also generate creative new approaches to improving the service we offer. You’ll have several additional tasks – these include providing advice on technical, risk and mitigation matters, contributing to proposals for our customers, and ensuring that the solutions we develop are timely, commercially viable, and align with the strategic roadmap. You’ll also be responsible for ensuring incident, problem, change and request processes are adhered to, working practices are in line with the relevant ISO standards, and change requests with existing customers are realised. Committed to maintaining your own and your team’s knowledge and development, you should also be ready to act as an escalation point for any service failures and ensure that resolution plans are executed correctly. Use all your technical IT skills as you help to defend the nation’s interests This is a fast-paced and complex role, and to be a success you’ll have plenty of experience working with customers in an IT service delivery environment. So, with this in mind you should hold a BTEC or its equivalent, preferably in Information Technology, or have plenty of relevant, hands-on experience in a similar role. You’ll have worked with service management tooling, such as ServiceNow, and in addition to ITIL4 Managing Professional certification, you should possess broad technical understanding and well-developed awareness of service design across the delivery lifecycle. Some experience of international service delivery, ideally within the public sector, would be desirable, as would the ability to manage internal suppliers and third parties. You’ll be at an advantage if you can show technical knowledge relating to security, IT and communication technologies, and any commercial expertise would be a plus. You’ll be working with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders, so it’s important that you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and a strong commitment to building long term relationships with our customers’ technical specialists and our product and services teams. Discover the support you need to grow your career further But we’re always looking to improve – just like you. That’s why when you join us, expect to receive a competitive salary, generous holiday entitlement and a Civil Service Pension. Along with this, you’ll also have access to training and other development opportunities to help grow your career with us. Our offices have an on-site gym, nursery, café, and restaurant, and we offer interest-free loans on season tickets and bikes to help you get there. It's a great set of benefits made to support all you do, and all you need. Want to see your future team’s work in action? Step into our Virtual Embassy and select a guide to take you round to see how we deliver for government customers and how you could help. Explore the embassy now at Every single colleague must be security cleared before joining us. If you’re successful in your application, we’ll ask you to undergo our vetting process to achieve Developed Vetting (DV) clearance. You can find out more about vetting at To find out more about our benefits and our organisation, please visit It takes a diverse team to protect a diverse world The vital work we do takes an incredible community of colleagues, with different skills, backgrounds, cultures and identities. We support every individual, so that you always know you’re welcome and valued. It’s what makes us a Disability Confident employer. And why we’re recognised as a ‘Carer Confident’ workplace. And it’s how you know you’re joining an inspiring, inclusive organisation. Candidates who are judged to be close to meeting the criteria may be considered for other positions in FCDO Services which may be at a lower grade, but have a potential skills match

Manage and lead the performance of the Products/Services within their remit ensuring alignment to customer expectations and defined targets, and that relevant support functions remain responsive to customer needs. Responsible for leading day to day live service support for the operational running of Products and Services. Provides effective line management by setting clear objectives, supporting development and maintaining regular performance conversations. Acts as the main point of contact for colleagues and stakeholders, ensuring smooth communication and prompt resolution of issues. Oversee day to day activities of junior members of the team and delegate administrative tasks relating to Service Management processes and the wider team. Establish and manage a programme of continual service improvements across the wider support team, ensuring these are aligned to quality management, problem management and resolution profiles, risk management, security policies and procedures, etc. and the identified actions to maintain or improve levels of service are implemented. Ensure Products/Services are delivered to agreed processes and policies. Ensure new and changed Products/Services are sufficiently and safely supported into live service whilst meeting the expectations of customers and service management standards. Provide high quality initial support for all end users, understanding and trying to resolve user issues and queries. Understand user needs and make an initial assessment on the impact/urgency of requests and incidents. Ensure effective management of issues raised on all channels and handle the resulting incidents using agreed incident management processes, procedures and policies.

Our Digital and Data technology team are at the forefront of digital innovation. They provide best in-class solutions for our clients, helping to shape and support a data driven future for UK government. Whether it’s creating bespoke, secure software, offering programme and application support or moving an entire embassy’s servers to a Cloud platform. No matter the task, they are on hand to support. Now, you’ve got the opportunity to join them. Providing innovation to government partners. Delivering best-in-class solutions. Working at the cutting-edge of technology It all matters. Protect, secure and safeguard vital government services Being a Lead Security Architect within the Cyber Security department means you’ll be steering architecture and security decisions during a period of significant innovation and change driven by emerging cyber threats and the rise of Cloud and AI technologies. The role will have you working across diverse departments, business processes and large programmes of work – all while you identify potential security information risks associated with the acquisition, implementation and use of technologies. Keeping your focus on monitoring and mitigating risk, you’ll recommend controls, audit tests – while also providing input on the development of security policies, system development lifecycles, secure coding practices, risk assessments, governance requirements and architecture for both FCDO Services and its customers. Your leadership skills will help you thrive here. You’ll be responsible for leading, coaching and developing a team of Security Information Risk Advisors – fostering a culture that supports high performance and continuous improvement. If you encounter a security breach, you will be the first to come up with solutions rooted in prevention and learning to foster a culture of continual improvement – guiding and advising management and promoting security awareness across the organisation at every step. Use your specialist skills to improve our technological resilience You’ll bring extensive knowledge of technical and security tools and techniques – supported with an IS-related qualification at NVQ Level 6 or equivalent. You’ll also be well-versed in everything from analysing proposals, technical documentation and designs, processes and practices to identifying security information and cyber vulnerabilities and risks – owing to the experience you’ve gained through previous roles. You’re a born leader. Engaging, motivating and full of knowledge, you’ll bring your excellent interpersonal and communication skills to every task you undertake. On a personal as well as professional level, you’ll be organised, collaborative, proactive and decisive – which translates to delivering at pace and to deadline. This is an exciting and varied role where you’ll play a vital part in keeping the nation safe and secure, all while continuing to grow and develop your own expertise. Discover the support you need to grow your career further Working with us, you’ll help keep people, information, and assets safe around the world. It’s a role you can feel proud of; and we aim to make every part of your career just as rewarding. That’s why when you join us, expect to receive a competitive salary, flexible working to support work/life balance, attractive holiday entitlement and a Civil Service Pension. Along with this, you’ll also have access to training and other development opportunities to help grow your career with us. Our offices have an on-site gym, nursery, café, and restaurant, and we offer interest-free loans on season tickets and bikes to help you get there. It’s a great set of benefits made to support all you do, and all you need. Want to see your future team’s work in action? Step into our Virtual Embassy to see how we deliver for government customers and how you could help. Explore the embassy now at . Every single colleague must be security cleared before joining us. If you’re successful in your application, we’ll ask you to undergo our vetting process to achieve Developed Vetting (DV) clearance. You can find out more about vetting at To find out more about our benefits and our organisation, please visit It takes a diverse team to protect a diverse world. The vital work we do takes an incredible community of colleagues, with different skills, backgrounds, cultures and identities. We support every individual, so that you always know you’re welcome and valued. It’s what makes us a Disability Confident employer. And why we’re recognised as a ‘Carer Confident’ workplace. And it’s how you know you’re joining an inspiring, inclusive organisation.

is the public sector open data hub where users can search and browse for open data from across the public sector. We have an ambitious agenda to transform the way the public sector makes its data available and reusable. Transforming plays a major role in this agenda as we redesign it into a modern reliable data hub which can provide access to a variety of public sector data. As a Frontend Developer for you'll share the responsibility for the ongoing operation, maintenance and continuing development of the frontend. As a Frontend Developer you will: build and maintain accessible, inclusive user interfaces using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, following WCAG guidance, Design System patterns and GDS web standards write clean, well-structured frontend code using a progressive enhancement approach, with support from more experienced developers develop and iterate prototypes and frontend components based on user needs, helping the team test and improve ideas early work closely with designers, user researchers and other developers to understand user needs and translate them into usable, high‑quality interfaces test your code and help fix bugs and accessibility issues, contributing to automated testing and quality assurance activities support the ongoing operation of the frontend by making small improvements, resolving issues and learning how services are supported in production consider performance, usability and maintainability when making changes, with guidance on improving page load times and frontend performance communicate your work clearly through code comments, documentation and team discussions, and share learning with the wider frontend community as you develop

As IT Service Design Manager, you will: Provides experienced leadership in service management and service operation, using practical knowledge of service design to shape effective services and support continuous improvement. Manage the Service Design "phase" of a new or existing service or product, co-ordinating events and resources ahead of a smooth handover into Service Transition. Liaise with senior stakeholders both within the design community and service operations. Draw together complex and wide ranging data to develop clear, accurate and well evidenced service designs. Take pride in representing service operations and enjoy the challenge of promoting IT Service Design principles. Support in the development and implementation of unit policies, documentation and procedures, to ensure we re-use and optimise IT Service Design methodologies where applicable.

The Technical Architects in the Public Sector AI Adoption unit in GDS exist to make building and buying AI technology easier in the UK Public Sector. In this role, you will work to set strategies, principles, and standards, and identify best practices, as well as supporting the adoption and embedding of these into the public sector, helping digital and data colleagues in these organisations deliver transformational change. You will be aligned to a Grade 6 Principal Technologist who will mentor and support you, as well as set you challenging tasks to further your team’s objectives. As a Technical Architect, you will be supporting the AI Technology Enablement team to: undertake research, input into and shape a 10-year intent and strategy for the AI enablement, and support colleagues in gaining cross-government endorsement for this work with stakeholders to shape a government digital strategy geared towards harnessing AI for the public good, translating complex technical concepts into straightforward language to influence strategic decision-makers. This includes drafting strategy papers and best-practice guidance, and delivering presentations to senior stakeholders and ministers identify and or develop existing principles, standards and best practices and promote them, or form and lead a group of technologists from across the UK Public Sector to create these work with vendors to maximise their offer to the UK Public Sector, and with the Crown Commercial Service in commercial engagements with vendors build a network of peers across the UK Public Sector to regularly engage with promote your work through content written for the Knowledge hub, , 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.

Main duties consist of but are not limited to: Design and Develop User-Centred Services: Work in agile, multidisciplinary teams to rapidly develop design concepts for complex transformation programs, collaborating with service managers and programme directors. This includes actively participating in user research, creating prototypes, and designing user interactions across various channels, devices, and technologies, all while being able to justify design decisions with evidence and data. Promote and Implement Design Excellence : Champion a consistent, high-quality user experience by promoting reusable design elements and best practices across the IPO and wider government communities. This involves contributing to user-centred design standards and guidance, utilising the Design System, and ensuring designs meet accessibility, legal, and security requirements, as well as the Service Standard. Lead and Mentor Design Professionals: Provide management support, coaching, mentoring, and training to other designers (including HEO Interaction Designers), focusing on their development, the quality of their work, and ensuring adherence to best practices.

As the Lead Technical Architect you will be instrumental in the definition of technology roadmaps that are aligned to business and IT strategy that support business change as well as the definition of architecture solutions to resolve specific business and technology issues. You will be required to provide technical leadership to design and development partners, making the necessary design decisions when required to ensure the MCA digital strategy is realised, that business and IT requirements are met, and MCA architecture principles are adhered to. Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to: Defining current and future solution requirements for coastguard command, control and coordination; Working closely with senior stakeholders across the enterprise to understand goals, constraints and values, and define opportunities for improvement; Horizon scanning for influences or risks to identify impacts and dependencies on the solution, ensuring alignment to broader government strategies and frameworks; Investigating and recommending appropriate use of emerging technologies to support the solutions; Defining solution principles, patterns, standards and best practices; Ensuring solution design is aligned to current business processes or their definition, proposing necessary changes to realise the solution; Ensuring solution design is interoperable with applications and infrastructure, proposing the necessary changes required; Accountability for the assurance of partners’ solution designs through the Architecture Review Board; Communicating the technology roadmap for Command and Control with both technical and non-technical stakeholders; Ensuring the knowledge of the MCA architecture is maintained in the architecture repository as well as compliant with the architecture strategy and principles. 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.

Main duties consist of but are not limited to: Work alongside product managers to create a pipeline of fully developed user stories ensuring that the business and technical viewpoints are understood and acknowledged. Undertake key business analysis activities, including but not limited to, requirements elicitation, documentation of business processes, workflows and business rules, using suitable methodologies, tools and standards. Advise on business scenarios and develop acceptance criteria to ensure requirements can be traced to develop new functionality. Identify and articulate options considering opportunities and limitations related to business and technology. Present complex information in a tailored format, allowing you to communicate key findings and put forward recommendations to the wider organisation. Tutor/mentor/coach BAs and Junior BAs by providing accurate and professional support. Develop and promote best practice, standards and guidance.

As a Senior Data Architect, you will be responsible to - deliver the data models, data journeys, understand/capture the data (and metadata) management including data governance specifications and mechanisms, identify data transformations, ensure data/ technical standardisation, define data volumes and high level non-functional requirements, define the supplier interfaces and obtain clarity on how administrative data fits into the end-to-end journey. Responsibilities Work across stakeholders, including service design and technical teams to ensure data architecture plays a key role in the design of an end-to-end census data journey. Lead on data architecture contributions to support the design and development of a census data pipeline. Contribute to the design and delivery of our Enterprise Metadata Management programme. Participate in cross-government data architecture communities, to help set direction and share your expertise. Champion the work of the DALI division across ONS. Contribute to the ongoing implementation of the ONS data strategy (including data principles, policies and standards) and provide advice to stakeholders on how to comply with the strategy. Line management of a small team one or two data architects or apprentices, and/or matrix management technical work. Play a role in the Data Architecture branch leadership team, particularly supporting the development of technical capabilities of your colleagues.

Reporting directly to the Lead Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for supporting service management, assuring the platform performance runs the Azure infrastructure to time, cost and quality measures. You will: Actively contribute to the team development where knowledge and experience are shared is crucial to the role. Demonstrate enthusiasm and resilience to deliver meaningful change in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities. Having an infrastructure background with a technical understanding of cloud infrastructure (i.e., virtual machines, datacentres, environments and the Linux Operating System.