Digital Delivery Director Department for Work and Pensions
Reference
1576023
Location
Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, London, Newcastle, Sheffield
Salary
circa £140,000
Work hours
37 hours / week
Employment type
Permanent
Job benefits
Civil Service pension schemes may be available for successful candidates.
Closing date
2 April 2018
Job description
This is a critical hands-on leadership role, with responsibility for creating the next generation platform on which millions of users and hundreds of products rely. You will:
- Lead development of large-scale platforms using innovative technologies and data, including authoritative customer data, payments, fraud, error and debt.
- Design, develop, deliver and support one of UK’s largest platforms to pay and receive money; and products and analytics to prevent and detect fraud and error, and recover money owed.
- Lead multi-disciplinary teams to design, plan, deliver and maintain products – including user experience, development, data models, real-time analytics, machine-learning, APIs, development and behaviour-driven testing.
- Lead creation of a library of re-usable code and loosely-coupled services for use by hundreds of products, leading matrixed architecture, security and infrastructure operations teams by influence.
- Create exceptional levels of engagement across teams to create focus on delivering exceptional business outcomes.
- Play an active role within the DWP Digital Executive team, as a member of DWP senior team, and as a senior Digital leader across the Government.
Person Specification
We are looking for:
- A transformation-focused business leader, with a track record of driving significant change agendas across organisations. Candidates must be highly driven, collaborative, analytical and problem-solving business
leaders. - Inspirational depth of design, technology, big data and delivery expertise.
- A track record of leading the delivery of high-performing digital services using large-scale loosely-coupled, open source platforms.
- Flair for engaging people, making the complex simple and compelling with humility.
- Expertise in using customer insight, user research, emerging and up to date technologies to develop digital services in a complex matrix organisation.
- Ability to lead and engage across a large organisation and beyond to inspire belief in our vision.