Deputy Director for Engineering (UC and Working Age)

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Deputy Director for Engineering (UC and Working Age)

About DWP:

With over 80,000 dedicated employees, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the UK government's biggest operational department, delivering services that have a vital positive impact on the lives of over 20 million people every day.

We are implementing radical improvements to the ways in which digital working supports the delivery of critical welfare services and we are passionate about the work that we do. Our teams are bright, bold and highly engaging; driving market leading and complex, digital delivery at scale.

We are now looking for a technical thought-leader for one of the largest transformation programmes in Europe. This exciting role will make digital services quicker, more secure, simpler and more efficient, whilst networking to expand digital capabilities across Government.

Reporting to the Digital Director, your key responsibilities will include:

Having technical accountability for all aspects of delivery across Working Age Digital and over £7m of programme delivery (£30m including staff costs);

Demonstrating your leadership abilities to build and inspire a large, high performing team of developers across three UK sites, ensuring robust and secure development in an agile manner;

Utilising your technical knowledge, you will define the enterprise architecture across digital, showing DWP to be an exemplar of delivery for all Government departments;

Utilising your energy and understanding of technology as an enabler to engage with and inspire a wide range of stakeholders internally and externally, at all levels of seniority;

Ensuring good governance and best practice methodologies, whilst thinking creatively to solve problems;

Supporting strategy development, including cloud and technical viability for our broadening portfolio of programmes and the wider digital roadmap.

Key Criteria:

The successful candidate will be passionate about technology and its delivery in building a user-centric service whilst having the ability to collaborate and problem solve in a fast moving environment.

They will have the ability and confidence to build relationships with senior stakeholders, both within government and beyond.

The ability to influence, manage and challenge complex senior stakeholder relationships and deal with public and political scrutiny;

Exceptional business acumen, commercial focus and communication skills with the ability to make commercial decisions in line with business needs and manage differing priorities effectively.

Visible leadership with the ability to build high performing teams through developing capability, creating an inclusive culture and supporting others to deliver in a fast paced and demanding environment;

High levels of personal resilience, remaining calm under pressure with the ability to think and act strategically, developing practical, creative and innovative solutions, business models and approaches, and driving these forwards;

The ability to communicate effectively and build strong credible relationships at all levels with varying stakeholders in a complex transactional organisation, including understanding developers and architects, in order to engage and instigate change;

Able to provide effective leadership to a Matrix structure with distributed teams.

For this role, you will also require credibility in the technology arena with extensive experience of:

Software & Infrastructure Engineering, associated technologies and delivery methodologies

Operational live service experience across large and complex systems across multiple-suppliers

A wide range of software and infrastructure design, development and delivery of business critical, online, user-centric services and applications, using associated technologies and delivery methodologies

Architecture & Solutions Design

Production Operations and third-level Operational Support.

Product Support and Service Management structures

Multiple location, team management in excess of 100 resources in both direct and Matrix models

Budget management

Success Profiles:

The Civil Service recruits using Success Profiles. This means for each role we advertise, we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.

During the application process we will be considering the following behaviours:

Leadership

Communicating and influencing

Working together

Delivering at pace

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.

For an informal and confidential conversation please contact Sarah Luxford (see below) for an information pack and how to apply.

Applications to be received by Monday 3rd June