The Crown Prosecution Service is pleased to announce the opportunity to apply for the position of Chief Technology Officer, across England and Wales.

ABOUT YOU

We’re looking for someone with proven track record of setting and delivering a clear technology vision and strategy, ensuring technology and architecture enables business transformation and improved user services. Experience building and leading high-performing enterprise architecture, cloud platform, IT operations and engineering teams within large-scale complex organisations is essential.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As Chief Technology Officer, you are the organisation’s technology strategist. You make decisions about the technical direction of the organisation, working closely with other senior leaders. Your role involves working with service owners and users, commercial teams and financial teams to support all technology procurement activities. This includes leading and contributing to business requirements within tender documents, assessing suppliers and bids and supporting the end-to-end procurement process.

At the Crown Prosecution Service, we pride ourselves on providing benefits that ensure our employees’ needs are central. We want to ensure you can thrive at work and home, offering support to achieve a balance. This includes flexible working hours, flexibility to support caring responsibilities and a family-friendly approach to work. We also offer a range of benefits including:

• flexible and family-friendly working         
• competitive salary      
• Civil Service pension, with an average employer contribution of 28.9%     
• 25 days leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays       
• 3 days paid volunteering leave         
• an extra privilege day for the King’s birthday        
• £350 a year individual learning budget           
• wellbeing support and counselling     
• Cycle2work scheme, high street retailer offers and discounts