Digital, Data & Technology Strategy Lead

Job responsibilities

In this role, you are accountable for:

Team Leadership & Development

• Leading the development of the team, including objectives, resourcing, skills, and training to positively drive the service forward, improve performance and ensure success of the team.
• Recruiting, leading, and coaching team members, including all personal and professional development, and establishing career pathways to train and develop future DDaT professionals.
• Responsible for managing a team of DDaT Strategy Partners to deliver relevant Digital, Data and Technology strategies; ensuring targets and performance standards are maintained.
• Supporting and deputising for the Head of DDaT Strategy & Data Management
• Active member of the DDaT Strategy and Data Management Management Team, collaborating to drive forwards the function as a whole and providing peer support to other members.

Strategy Development & Business Planning

• Lead on the planning, development, and monitoring of key Digital, Data & Technology strategies, that includes championing ways of working required to drive adoption of across the NHSBSA. This includes leading the development and maintenance of a fit for purpose DDaT Strategy and NHSBSA Data Strategy.
• Being future focused by horizon scanning, remain abreast of strategic developments and best practices within the area of DDaT, providing senior leadership colleagues with advice regarding any opportunities and/or impact for our business strategy.
• Develop appropriate DDaT strategic measures to monitor progress against our strategic goals and objectives.
• Collaborating with colleagues to implement strategic measures, ensuring that they are visible to relevant stakeholders.
• Lead and facilitate DDaT business planning activities working to ensure strategic alignment; and develop and refresh our annual DDaT Business Plan.
• Contribute to and prepare proposals for change including producing necessary estimates, mandates, and business cases within the relevant departments. Understanding key cost drivers and benefits for these proposals.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to identify opportunities for leveraging technology and data to enhance business performance.

Strategic Data Enablement

• Drives and encourages a data driven culture, collaboration, and partnership across the NHSBSA. Leads and influences colleagues across the business by embedding data and evidence in decision making.
• Champion the use of data to drive strategic initiatives and operational improvements.
• Lead the Development & maintenance of an inventory of strategic data artefacts, including use cases and data products
• Leading on strategic data activities to deliver our NHSBSA Data Strategy, for example, developing a data literacy programme
• Working with data leaders internally and externally including across DHSC & ALBs to progress opportunities and/or remove blockers to achieving our data ambitions.
• Develop directorate strategic data plans to support being a data driven organisation. Understands the NHSBSAs and specific domain/directorates need for data, how it is used and be able to lead, influence and communicate opportunities and/or risks.
• Working closely with the Data Governance Lead and team, to embed the NHSBSA Data Governance Framework to ensure data assets are managed by business areas and quality improvements are driven forward.

Stakeholder Engagement & Relationships

• Develops key relationships with Directors, Heads of Service, Senior Managers, and DDaT Leaders as well as developing relationships with key stakeholders external to the NHSBSA.
• Collaborating with Senior Managers, communities of practice, and the wider NHS to gain access to resources and co-ordinate work to deliver best practice and projects.
• Building active internal and external networks with the NHS and wider organisations, to share working practices and build innovative ideas, with potential for future partnership working.
• Explore opportunities to work collaboratively with others, forging enduring peer relationships across the wider NHSBSA and beyond, including provision of expert guidance and / or leading challenging discussions to ensure successful outcomes.
• Working closely with Strategy, Performance, Business Development & Growth colleagues to ensure DDaT strategies and frameworks are aligned to current business strategy and informs future strategic thinking.
• Through an approach of continual improvement, identify, evaluate, and implement new and innovative ways of working to achieve the right outcomes for the organisation
• Working closely with Data Architecture and wider Enterprise Architecture colleagues to develop as-is, target blueprints and artefacts aligned to our Digital, Data, Technology and business strategies.
• Building our employer brand by being an ambassador for the NHSBSA through networking, speaking at external events and partner relationships.
• Communicate digital, data and technology strategies to stakeholders, ensuring alignment and buy-in.
• Designs and delivers ad hoc presentations on a range of DDaT subjects as and when required by managers at all levels within the domain/directorate.

Financial Management

• Ensuring that the team remains within budget and headcount.
• Managing the budgets and procurement relevant to the service NHSBSA (£m)

In addition to the above accountabilities, as post holder you are expected to:

• Undertake additional duties and responsibilities in line with the purpose of your role and as agreed by your line manager.
• Demonstrate NHSBSA values and core capabilities in all aspects of your work.
• Encourage an environment where your own and colleagues safety and well-being is promoted.
• Contribute to a culture which values diversity and inclusion.Follow NHSBSA policies, procedures, and protocols as they apply to your role.

Working Relationships

Responsible to: Head of DDaT Strategy & Data Management

Responsible for: Digital, Data & Technology Strategy Team

Key relationships and connections: Team Members Enterprise Architecture & Enterprise Data Architecture Team Strategy, Performance, Business Development & Growth Colleagues Senior Managers (Internal and External) Service Delivery Team Wider DDaT Colleagues Leadership Team Peers across NHS & Social Care and Civil Service

Personal Qualities, Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication and engagement skills, able to present information to a variety of audiences with varying levels of understanding and seniority
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to influence across an organisation
• Ability to lead and build effective and trusting business partnering relationships maintaining the highest standard of integrity
• Ability to work as a strategic partner with both internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to lead and influence at all levels in the organisation and able to develop and build strong relationships with people of different business and technical backgrounds.
• Able to use initiative, multitask and prioritise diverse workload and work to deadlines.
• Ability to lead and be accountable for decision making.
• Commitment to continuing professional development
• Produces and develops relevant reports for which Senior Management can make confident decisions, influencing where appropriate
• Proven track record of being able to coach, lead and mentor colleagues
• Problem solver and analytical thinker with an eye for detail.
• Ability to break down highly complex problems and projects into manageable goals
• Ability to get to the heart of a problem and make sound and timely decisions to resolve and influence where appropriate
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Enthusiasm, motivation, and resourcefulness, with the initiative to recognise and act on problems and opportunities
• Ability to manage adversity and challenging situations
• Self-motivated and have an energetic approach

Desirable

• Matrix management experience in a cross-functional team environment and / or across a large organisation
• A good knowledge of freedom of information and data protection legislation

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of working in a large organisation, ideally within the NHS.
• Demonstrable leadership experience in strategy development with a successful track record in building cross-functional, virtual teams who are focussed on delivering outcome that add value
• Significant experience of developing and implementing strategies, relevant to DDaT
• Ability to build a collaborative environment, teaming cultures and customer service mindset
• Extensive experience of taking complex and detailed information and presenting to an audience at a conceptual level
• Excellent understanding user/customer needs and requirements/journeys and improving customer experience
• Experience of developing business cases and data use cases
• Experience of using strategic planning and business analysis tools/techniques and creating business cases
• Relevant knowledge and experience of DDaT related governance approaches, practices, toolkits, and pitfalls in a large organisation
• Demonstrable people and professional leadership skills that empower; support and robustly performance manage and develop teams to achieve highest performance
• Highly specialised knowledge of programme/project management practices, tools & techniques and extensive knowledge and extensive experience of effective project risk and quality management
• Professionally developing staff by coaching and/or mentoring
• Excellent conflict management, negotiation and problem-solving skills
• Leading people through transformation
• Good knowledge of DDaT related government regulatory requirements and emerging trends and issues

Desirable

• Significant experience of developing and running high-performing teams, ideally in the NHS.
• Ability to use "best practice" in all aspects of strategic planning and thinking
• Understanding of performance management and reporting
• Experience of collating data and writing board reports
• Proven ability and experience of identifying goals and objectives and motivating and leading others towards their achievement
• Worked with NHS data
• Worked in or with public sector bodies

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree level qualification, or equivalent work experience plus significant specialist experience or equivalent demonstrable capability.

Desirable

• Masters level qualification in a relevant discipline or relevant equivalent experience
• Strategy development and / or strategic planning qualification
• Delivery / Project management qualification
• DDaT Professional qualification e.g. Certified Data Management Professional (DAMA)

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).