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Technology capability analyst (Closes 16 January)
Digital performance manager (Closes 16 January)
Technical adviser (Closes 18 January)
Deputy Head of Performance and Delivery Unit (Closes 22 January)
Technology Supplier Manager (Closes 23 January)
Web operations engineer – up to 5 posts (Closes 24 January)
Technical architect (Closes 27 January)
Build and operations manager (Closes 27 January)
Technical architect – up to 3 posts (Closes 27 January)
Deputy Chief Technology Officer (Closes 31 January)

Role

Technology capability analyst

Duties

As an analyst on this team, you will be adept at delivering analysis in a fast paced environment, with multiple stakeholders. You will be working across government, across functions, to deliver against a set of objectives and timelines. Our stakeholders include Technology Professionals, Senior Leaders, and commercial companies.

Responsibilities

Establish relationships with a range of stakeholders across Government to support delivery of tasks;
Establish relationships with commercial companies to better serve the needs of users of technology services across government;
Balance multiple priorities and deal with data ambiguity;
Manage and analyse large amounts of data to formulate conclusions;
Review requests for market research and provide approvals based on predetermined guidelines, and identify and escalate issues quickly and clearly where required.

Contract

Up to 2 years fixed term

Salary

£30,117 to £38,484

Closing date

16 January 2014

How to apply

Find out more details, including person specification, on the Civil Service jobs site.

To apply please send the completed application form to cabinet-office.external@dwp.gsi.gov.uk quoting reference IRC 75685.

You can find out more about GDS on our blog, or by following us on Twitter.

Role

Digital performance manager

Duties

The role will lead the team responsible for the Digital Service Standard. This encompasses the service assessments conducted on services right across government, but also the policy and approach of the standard itself and the assessment process. You will work with a broad range of specialists to make sure that service managers across government have the feedback they need to improve the capability and performance of their service, and that the service standard itself is a valued mark of quality, with a reputation for integrity. As a digital performance manager you will be qualified to work across a range of projects and challenges during your time at GDS.

This is a senior post which will require experience of high level stakeholder engagement in addition to regular contact with software developers, content designers and product managers who are developing the service.

The post holder will be responsible for catalysing a revolution in the way in which we measure, assess, and improve the performance of the service.

Responsibilities

Support the GOV.UK leadership team in all matters related to the measurement and usage of performance information for the service.
Lead the analysis of service performance and advise GDS and on how to collect, store, and present strategic and operational performance information.
Lead day to day engagement with government departments and GDS developers to provide the best overall view of performance.
Identify delivery obstacles to improving performance and working with the product and technology teams to overcome those obstacles;
Lead the communication of service performance and delivery to Cabinet Office and other central stakeholders.
Ensure high quality analysis of all GOV.UK user insight and data.
Collect and reflect examples of best practice in digital performance management from the public and private sector, domestically and internationally
Manage the procurement of the necessary digital platforms to support automated and real time collection and presentation of information

Contract

Up to 2 years fixed term

Salary

£44,743 to £60,484

Closing date

16 January 2014

How to apply

Find out more details, including person specification, on the Civil Service jobs site.

To apply please send the completed application form to cabinet-office.external@dwp.gsi.gov.uk quoting reference IRC 75686.

You can find out more about GDS on our blog, or by following us on Twitter.

Role

Technical adviser

Duties

Technical advisers in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer carry out a wide range of activities, from actively breaking down complex problems and identifying steps towards solutions, through to guiding and leading individuals (including non-GDS employees) to reach common aims. Technical advisers engage with technical and non-technical people at all levels of seniority.

This role requires an equal balance of technical expertise and excellent interpersonal and communication skills, together with the ability to quickly develop strong working relationships with a diverse range of people inside and outside of government. You will be using your diplomacy and negotiation skills to encourage people to get involved with our work and will regularly be communicating technical ideas to non-technical audiences, clearly and concisely.

The role will help to deliver a successful outcome to the implementation of the Government’s Open Standards Principles, a policy which was published in 2012.

Responsibilities

Manage the development and ongoing improvement of the Standards Hub, a website that we use to engage with our users to help us to select open standards for use in government IT. Learn lessons from feedback on the beta site to run a live service that meets users’ needs.
Manage the open standards selection process, which is supported by the Standards Hub. Encourage transparent engagement with users of the Hub on existing standards challenges, commission new challenges and identify new resource to help resolve challenges. These challenges are problems that users have which could be helped by implementing open standards in government IT.
Act as the authority on the use of the Standards Hub and the process it supports for senior stakeholders, such as challenge owners, providing them with information and advice on leading a challenge, developing proposals and engaging with users.
Develop content to help users to understand and engage with the standards selection process.
Manage the Standards Hub content, including guiding authors to write clearly and concisely, moderating comments, capturing and publishing meeting notes, publishing content such as proposals and completed standards profiles.
Lead on aspects of analysis and research relating to standards challenges, including for example assessment of standards or surveys on implementation.
Manage the relationship between expert panels, challenge owners and working groups.
Support the Open Standards Board, arranging meetings and providing appropriate material for their consideration.

Contract

Up to 2 years fixed term

Salary

£30,117 to £38,484

Closing date

18 January 2014

How to apply

Find out more details, including person specification, on the Civil Service jobs site.

To apply please send the completed application form to cabinet-office.external@dwp.gsi.gov.uk quoting reference IRC 75670.

You can find out more about GDS on our blog, or by following us on Twitter.

Role

Deputy Head, Performance and Delivery Unit

Duties

The Deputy Head of Performance and Delivery will play a central role in supporting departments to build and operate excellent digital services for citizens and businesses. They will support the Director in running a team of 65, responsible for an annual budget of over £4m.

The Deputy will be responsible for managing teams within the Unit, ensuring that appropriate links are made between them, that they remain focused on the bigger picture, and that strategic or tactical obstacles to achieving their delivery objectives are cleared. As well as providing leadership and advice to Band A team leaders, the Deputy will lead on increasing awareness of PDU’s work within GDS, and on further embedding a data-driven culture across government.

This is a fantastic opportunity to operate at the heart of an exciting and fast-moving digital agenda, and make a substantial contribution to increasing the government’s capability to meet the needs of service users in a radically new way. You will be delivering through a wide range of different experts, from user researchers to analysts to developer teams. You will work closely with senior officials in Cabinet Office and other departments, and have many opportunities to further develop your digital, strategic and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

providing strategic leadership and management for the Performance Platform, ensuring that it becomes a successful and scalable product used to improve decision making across Whitehall;
widening the impact and scope of the Product Analytics and Data Science teams across government, increasing their capability and unblocking strategic obstacles to progress;
working with the Head of Assessments to oversee a successful full roll-out of the Digital by Default Service Standard from April 2014;
managing Band A team leaders, developing their ability to manage their teams, engage with stakeholders through compelling presentations, and negotiate Whitehall processes;
working alongside the Director to establish and maintain a clear and effective team structure and set of reporting lines for the unit, and ensure that high-level project management documentation is updated and fit-for-purpose.
raising the profile of PDU within and outside of GDS, through overseeing the GDS data blog, encouraging the development and maintenance of impactful team presentations, and engaging with senior stakeholders across Whitehall
overseeing the smooth running of team support functions, including external communications, recruitment, finance and budgeting.

Contract

Up to 2 years fixed term

Salary

£56,840 to £70,700

Closing date

22 January 2014

How to apply

Find out more details, including the person specification, on the Civil Service jobs site.

Please send your CV and completed CV cover sheet along with a covering letter, describing why you’re interested in the role and providing evidence and examples of how you meet the essential competencies and specialist skills required, to cabinet-office.external@dwp.gsi.gov.uk quoting reference IRC 75700.

You can find out more about GDS on our blog, or by following us on Twitter.

Role

Technology supplier manager

Duties

The role is in the Common Technology Services team in OCTO, which is part of GDS and provides a coordinated service for departments and agencies recognising and supporting them in delivering their mission IT, and helps them generate significant savings, agility and resilience through the provision of common services.

The Common Technology Services (CTS) team will:

provide common IT products and services needed by all departments, to help them focus on their own mission IT applications
understand the technology needs of departments and the IT market, and will commoditise the best available technology into products that departments can consume.
help departments adopt these products by offering a range of professional services covering design, integration, transition and operations and it will provide a route to these products and services both directly and through existing and new frameworks.

Responsibilities

Find buying solutions for OCTO delivery programmes
Execute specific purchases and deals on behalf of delivery programmes including use of G-Cloud, Digital Services Framework and other government procurement frameworks
Lead supplier engagement for OCTO
Establish strategic partnerships with organisations who can support OCTO reform and delivery programmes
Be the lead contact between OCTO and GDS Business Support for framework purchasing
Ensure there is appropriate capability and resource in the team to support all programmes
Build and manage the team to meet demand and OCTO objectives
Work closely with Service and Technical management colleagues to support the creation of CTS’ IT delivery function.
Work with GDS and CCS colleagues to reform existing IT procurement policy and mechanisms where needed
Provide high level advice on contractual matters relating to the supply chain, including exit management
Ensure that the procure through to pay processes are managed effectively to avoid any delays in fast moving projects
Manage primary engagements and liaison with colleagues in related functions – HR, legal, communications.

Contract

Up to 2 years fixed term

Salary

£44,743 to £60,484

Closing date

23 January 2014

How to apply

Find out more details, including the person specification, on the Civil Service jobs site.

You can find out more about GDS on our blog, or by following us on Twitter.

Role

Web operations engineer – up to 5 posts

Duties

We are looking for technically exceptional web operations staff to help us achieve our goals. With a strong systems background, you will ideally have a passion for developing the right tooling to create and evolve a resilient and secure platform on top of Infrastructure As A Service and enthusiasm for working in a cross-disciplinary “DevOps” environment. You will have excellent troubleshooting and research skills with a positive and proactive approach to customer service and getting things done.

At any one time GDS has a variety of projects in progress and over time there will be opportunities to move around those projects building up a range of skills and helping us share knowledge across the organisation and around government. Day-to-day you will be responsible for working with that team to design, create and improve new and existing products, platforms and transactions across government.

This post is based in Reading working with the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Delivery programme.

Responsibilities

Working with product teams on a range of tools and services, improving the products GDS provides to meet user needs
Supporting development teams with application configuration for deployment, monitoring and other automation
Working with developers to test, debug and troubleshoot issues and problems
Building and configuring new server platforms and the automated tooling to do so
Operational management of Linux servers, delivering a complex web application stack
Testing, debugging and troubleshooting of platform level problems

Contract

Up to 2 years fixed term

Salary

£41,360 to £56,383

Closing date

24 January 2014

How to apply

Find out more details, including the person specification, on the Civil Service jobs site.

You can find out more about GDS on our blog, or by following us on Twitter.

Role

Technical architect

Duties

As a Technical Architect working at the Government Digital Service (GDS) your role will be to design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance groundbreaking and high-profile digital products. You’ll work in small, agile, high performing teams alongside developers, visual designers, UX specialists, content designers and other digital professionals to create user-focused, scalable and high-performance digital services for tens of millions of users.

This post is based in Reading working with the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Delivery programme.

You’ll be involved in the wider software development community, both online and in person at conferences and events. It’s everyone’s responsibility to keep themselves at the cutting edge of digital and web technology, to mentor new developers, and to spread the word about what we’re doing at GDS.

Candidates must have a strong track record of building and running high volume, reliable and flexible services that are relentlessly user-focused and continually improved through iterative development.

The role requires an equal balance of technical expertise, gained through current, hands-on involvement in developing real-world systems, and excellent interpersonal skills allied with the ability to quickly develop strong working relationships in high pressure environments. Candidates should ideally have experience in development of transformational digital services on “brownfield estates” and/or rapid development and scaling of very high-volume “greenfield” services.

Technical Architects carry out a wide range of activities, from actively writing code as a senior member of the development team and breaking down complex problems and identifying steps towards solutions, through to coaching individuals and engaging with non-technical people at all levels of seniority.

Responsibilities

Provide hands-on technical leadership, in the development, operation and ongoing improvement of complex, transformational digital services serving millions of users.
Work with product managers to understand user needs for new and existing services.
Act as the technical authority in prospective, information gathering and scene setting meetings with other government departments, evaluate technical proposals from external suppliers, and make implementation recommendations to senior stakeholders.
Work with delivery teams and partners to break technical requirements down into appropriate pieces, and to identify key API requirements for integration with internal and external systems.
Lead the rapid development of user-driven prototypes to identify technical options and inform architectural approaches, working with colleagues and supplier team members to write tests, code and documentation for new and existing systems.
Ensure that new and updated platforms, products and transactions are thoroughly tested for performance, are able to handle specified load, and can be maintained over the long-term.
Work with external suppliers to ensure that their system architectures are robust, scalable, open and secure, with appropriate overall system design and integration points/APIs, to deliver a high quality user experience.
Advise on, manage and implement agile delivery projects within government departments, providing guidance, mentoring and training in agile technical delivery and evolutionary software architecture to government departments and agencies.
Provide mentorship and/or line management for software developers and junior software developers
Assist with building a culture of continuous delivery and improvement, ensuring that key systems are regularly analysed, maintained and improved.

Contract

Up to 2 years fixed term

Salary

£41,360 to £56,383

Closing date

27 January 2014

How to apply

Find out more details, including the person specification, on the Civil Service jobs site.

You can find out more about GDS on our blog, or by following us on Twitter.

Role

Build and operations manager

Duties

You’ll work in and with small, agile, high performing teams, alongside developers, visual designers, UX specialists, content designers and other digital professionals to create user-focused, scalable and high-performance digital services. The build and operations manager is responsible for developing operations practice and infrastructure to enable a continuous build ‘dev ops’ culture and a top quality service

The applicant must have demonstrable experience designing and building continuous integration systems and build pipelines. An ideal candidate will have previous experience working on a large production platform. They can successfully manage the day-to-day service operations’ processes and teams that provide internal and external customers with unified services that are highly available and meet service level agreements. They can provide management reporting, and strategic planning in anticipation of high quality, national services, and engender a customer-focused mentality in all operations work and beyond into other teams.

Responsibilities

Manage the day-to-day service operations’ processes and teams
Designing and building continuous integration systems and build pipelines
Testing, debugging and troubleshooting of platform level problems
Supporting development teams with configuring applications for deployment
Provide management reporting, and strategic planning
Engender a ‘Dev Ops’ and customer-focused culture

Contract

Up to 2 years fixed term

Salary

£44,743 to £60,484

Closing date

27 January 2014

How to apply

Find out more details, including person specification, on the Civil Service jobs site.

To apply please send the completed application form to cabinet-office.external@dwp.gsi.gov.uk quoting reference IRC 75707.

You can find out more about GDS on our blog, or by following us on Twitter.

Role

Technical architect – up to 3 posts

Duties

You’ll be involved in the wider web development community, both online and in person at conferences and events. It’s everyone’s responsibility to keep themselves at the cutting edge of digital and web technology, to mentor new developers, and to spread the word about what we’re doing at GDS.

Responsibilities

Provide hands-on technical leadership, in the development, operation and ongoing improvement of complex, transformational digital services serving millions of users.
Work with product managers to understand user needs for new and existing services.
Act as the technical authority in prospective, information gathering and scene setting meetings with other government departments, evaluate technical proposals from external suppliers, and make implementation recommendations to senior stakeholders.
Work with delivery teams and partners to break technical requirements down into appropriate pieces, and to identify key API requirements for integration with internal and external systems.
Lead the rapid development of user-driven prototypes to identify technical options and inform architectural approaches, working with colleagues and supplier team members to write tests, code and documentation for new and existing systems.
Ensure that new and updated platforms, products and transactions are thoroughly tested for performance, are able to handle specified load, and can be maintained over the long-term.
Work with external suppliers to ensure that their system architectures are robust, scalable, open and secure, with appropriate overall system design and integration points/APIs, to deliver a high quality user experience.
Advise on, manage and implement agile delivery projects within government departments, providing guidance, mentoring and training in agile technical delivery and evolutionary software architecture to government departments and agencies.
Provide mentorship and/or line management for software developers and junior software developers
Assist with building a culture of continuous delivery and improvement, ensuring that key systems are regularly analysed, maintained and improved.

Contract

Up to 2 years fixed term

Salary

£44,743 to £60,484

Closing date

27 January 2014

How to apply

Find out more details, including the person specification, on the Civil Service jobs site.

You can find out more about GDS on our blog, or by following us on Twitter.

Role

Deputy Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities

Running the Technology Leadership function of the Office of the Government Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), defining and upholding the UK Government technology position
- Providing leadership and line management to a high calibre team, fostering a culture that builds digital skills and rewards delivery
- Responsibility for Technology Leadership group within OCTO, acting as the key interface between OCTO and Government Technology Leaders network;
Representing the CTO across government, building relationships with departments and establishing stronger engagement between departments and GDS;
Maintaining and developing the technology leadership vision for Government
- Continuously improving and updating key guidance (CTO’s and Technology Code of Practice in the Government Service Design Manual)
- Promoting and developing capability building within the team and across government, to bring about a sustained improvement in digital and technology skills;
Building the case to drive forward the wider business transformation of Government through technology, identifying opportunities to accelerate the pace of change
- Establishing and maintaining a view of government IT contracts and performance data, to provide an evidence base for decisions about technology in Government
- Acting as a strong advocate with senior internal and external stakeholders for a strategic approach to systems and architectures that prioritises user needs in support of digital services over legacy systems, both across the department and at Board level
- Working with the Open Standards Board and leading the open standards agenda.

Contract

2 year fixed term appointment with the possibility of contract extension or conversion to a permanent appointment

Salary

£60,000 to £117,400

Closing date

31 January 2014

How to apply

Find out more details about the role on the Civil Service jobs site. If you would like to apply please see the job pack for candidates.

You can find out more about GDS on our blog, or by following us on Twitter.

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