JOB DESCRIPTION

Reporting to the Director of Digital, the Chief Technical Officer is pivotal in the design and delivery of IBCA’s strategy and service development.
The role will be responsible for ensuring the effective technical design and delivery of the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme working alongside the Head of Delivery and Head of Product. The Chief Technical Officer will be leading multiple teams with product, design and technical expertise working alongside operational and data specialists to deliver this incredibly important service in a user centred way, at pace.
The Chief Technical Officer will engage with all areas across the organisation and beyond to collaboratively define our technology strategy as part of, and aligned to, the overall service blueprint. They will develop a technical roadmap and collaborate on the service level roadmap ensuring that value is delivered incrementally at every stage, considering user needs alongside technical security and robustness.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Technical Architecture and Roadmap Development: Developing and owning an iterative architecture collectively with service design which shows how the service will develop over time. Ensuring value of technical capability development is clearly articulated and working with product to develop a technical roadmap which is part of the wider service roadmap with technical areas appropriately prioritised.
• Technical Leadership: Direct leading of the technical areas of the Digital teams (including architecture, engineers and test engineers) and wider direction setting and leadership across the whole digital team. Development of live service capability for the Digital Service. Ensuring all teams work in alignment to the single service roadmap and balancing technical quality and pace of delivery.
• Digital Leadership: Working with Head of Delivery and Head of Product to jointly assure digital development plans to ensure these are aligned to the roadmap, achievable and clearly communicated.
• Live Service Management: Ensuring that live service elements are included and monitoring and reporting built into development and establishing a robust and comprehensive live service strategy and building the capability to support this.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Working in close collaboration with teams across IBCA and wider stakeholders to ensure shared vision and clarity of plans and build a culture of collective prioritisation which includes technical priorities.
• IT Strategy and Provision:.Working with the Head of Delivery to ensure the organisational IT strategy reflects best practice technical approaches and linking into wider Cabinet Office Digital teams as needed to support this.
• Embedding Technical Expertise: Supporting the development of robust engineering and architectural standards across digital teams and actively ensuring these are met by all. Chairing IBCA Technical Design Authority which reports to ExCo. Embedding and ensuring adherence to government service standards across digital teams.