Start Date
Immediate
Expiry Date
21 Jun, 25
Salary
67126.0
Posted On
21 Mar, 25
Experience
5 year(s) or above
Remote Job
Yes
Telecommute
Yes
Sponsor Visa
No
Skills
Technical Design, Personal Touch, Leadership, Sc Clearance, Norway
Industry
Other Industry
JOB SUMMARY
The Government Digital Service (GDS) is the digital centre of government — we are responsible for setting, leading and delivering the vision for a modern digital government.
We are home to the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (I.AI), the world-leading GOV.UK and at the forefront of coordinating the UK’s geospatial strategy and activity. We lead the Government Digital and Data function and champion the work of digital teams across government.
We’re part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and employ more than 1,000 people all over the UK, with hubs in Manchester, London and Bristol.
The Government Digital Service is where talent translates into impact. From your first day, you’ll be working with some of the world’s most highly-skilled digital professionals, all contributing their knowledge to make change on a national scale.
Join us for rewarding work that makes a difference across the UK. You’ll solve some of the nation’s highest-priority digital challenges, helping millions of people access services they need.
The Product & Services Directorate (P&S) within GDS is responsible for the P&S Ai enabled app and common component products that provide shared systems, technology and processes, making it quicker and cheaper to build great public services that are consistent for users:
JOB DESCRIPTION
As a GDS Head of Technical Architecture for Personalisation, you’ll be responsible for designing and driving the technical strategy for future critical national infrastructure (CNI) working in collaboration with other GDS heads of architecture and senior technical leadership groups. As a Head of technical architecture for personalisation you’ll set direction, and be responsible for designing and implementing the technical and architectural requirements relating to the personalisation of the P&S & GOV.UK programmes. You’ll do this to deliver on the GDS wide strategic needs, while ensuring the platform is secure, available and resilient at scale for the future. This is critical to such an important part of our national communications infrastructure.
This role is suited to someone who has experience of driving / delivering enterprise level transformation projects. We are moving beyond a static publishing architecture to one that will support structured and personalised content to facilitate channel agnostic consumption and re-use of content in personalised situations; the use of data and data science for insight and automation; data exchange and account models to make interactions with government simpler; and a two-way dialogue between the government, and citizens and businesses.
We would expect to see demonstrable experience of developing architecture to cope with scaled demands, looking across the importance of user identification, delegated authority, security, and privacy. We would look for evidence of successfully leading technical communities and high-performing agile teams to deliver against strategic aims in similar transformational projects at significant scale.
You’ll be part of the P&S programme team alongside GDS leadership team to inform, substantiate, and drive forward strategy, and how this manifests in our plans and roadmaps. As part of this role, you’ll lead the personalised architecture community within P&S, which includes the responsibility for developing the team to support higher-level technical and architecture capabilities within the programme.
As the Head of Technical Architecture for Personalisation you’ll:
NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
Further information on nationality requirements
THE STANDARD SELECTION PROCESS FOR ROLES AT GDS CONSISTS OF:
In the event we receive a high volume of applications, we will conduct the initial sift against the lead criteria which is:
Depending on how many applications we get, there might also be an extra stage before the video interview, for example a phone interview or a technical exercise.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ROLE REQUIRES SC CLEARANCE, WHICH WOULD NORMALLY NEED 5 YEARS’ UK RESIDENCY IN THE PAST 5 YEARS. THIS IS NOT AN ABSOLUTE REQUIREMENT, BUT SUPPLEMENTARY CHECKS MAY BE NEEDED WHERE INDIVIDUALS HAVE NOT LIVED IN THE UK FOR THAT PERIOD. THIS MAY MEAN YOUR SECURITY CLEARANCE (AND THEREFORE YOUR APPOINTMENT) WILL TAKE LONGER OR, IN SOME CASES, NOT BE POSSIBLE.
In the Civil Service, we use Success Profiles to evaluate your skills and ability. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, increases performance and improves diversity and inclusivity. We’ll be assessing your technical abilities, skills, experience and behaviours that are relevant to this role.
For this role we’ll be assessing you against the following Civil Service Behaviours:
We’ll also be assessing your experience and specialist technical skills against the following skills defined in the Digital, Data and Technology Profession Capability Framework for the lead technical architect role:
Candidates that do not pass the interview but have demonstrated an acceptable standard may be considered for similar roles at a lower grade.
A reserve list will be held for a period of 12 months, from which further appointments can be made.
The Government Digital Service (GDS) is the digital centre of government — we are responsible for setting, leading and delivering the vision for a modern digital government.
The Product & Services Directorate (P&S) within GDS is responsible for the P&S Ai enabled app and common component products that provide shared systems, technology and processes, making it quicker and cheaper to build great public services that are consistent for users:
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