Job responsibilities
- Leading data architecture discussions, evaluate options, presenting recommendations
- Leading data architects across the business and providing mentorship
- Delivering at pace across multiple projects with appropriate levels of documentation
- Analysing and translating business needs into long-term solutions
- Evaluating, understanding, and documenting existing data systems
- Understand and analyse the impact of change and clearly communicating with stakeholders
- Collaborate and show leadership with multiple stakeholders on data centric initiatives
- Obtain and maintain a broad knowledge of our existing and planned data estate
- Keep up to date on the state of the art and evaluate modern data tooling
- Optimise how data is stored and moved through UKHSA
- Understand the specific issues around data in a governmental / health context
- Provide thought leadership, patterns, and best practices across multiple data domains
- Communicating with technical and non-technical audiences
UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.
Essential Criteria:
Team working and collaboration: You have proven ability to lead data architects and work successfully with technical teams, senior leadership, enterprise architecture and data architecture specialists at an appropriate level
Turning business problems into data design. You can demonstrate and execute thought leadership related to design data architectures by dealing with specific business problems and aligning it to enterprise-wide standards and principles. You able to work within the context of well understood architecture and can identify and govern against appropriate patterns
Communication skills (data). You can effectively translate requirements and accurately communicate across technical and non-technical stakeholders as well as facilitate discussions within a multidisciplinary team, with potentially difficult dynamics. You can advocate for the team externally and can manage differing perspectives. You are skilled at presenting to architecture boards and governance teams and regarded as an expert
Data Platforms Change and Migration You are skilled at identifying and analysing the impact of change across our complex data estate, and understanding the complexities of migrating, retiring, and introducing new data platforms and data flows
Modern cloud data and analytics platforms You have strong technical experience of planning, analysing, designing, and documenting the implementation of modern cloud data and analytics platforms at a large scale. You provide technical leadership and attend to both the big picture and the detail and produce high quality design documentation. You can work simultaneously on multiple work streams
Desirable Criteria:
Agile Working: You understand agile delivery methods and tools, and how to leverage them to delivery at pace while maintaining appropriate levels of reporting to senior stakeholders
Data Management: You understand the concepts and ways of delivering cloud-based data management capabilities such as data quality, metadata, data catalogues, lineage etc and have an in depth understanding of one or more tool sets
Data governance: You understand what data governance, privacy and security requirements are required and how to ensure them. You can take responsibility for the assurance of data solutions and make recommendations to ensure compliance
Selection Process
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Strengths
This part of the selection process should outline how you consider your skills, experience and achievements, and provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria outlined.
You will also be asked to provide information within the Employer/ Activity history section of the application form. This is equivalent to the information you would provide on a CV, setting out your career history. This will be used in sifting process and will be scored.
Stage 1: Application & SiftAs part of the application process, you will be asked to provide a Statement of Suitability in no more than 1250 words providing examples of how you meet the essential criteria. It should also detail what you and your experience can bring to the role.
If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview
Stage 2: Panel Interview
All candidates who are successful at the sift stage will be invited to interview remotely via Microsoft Teams. You will be required to prepare a presentation for the interview
The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:
Seeing the Big Picture
Changing and Improving
Making Effective Decisions
Leadership
Communicating and Influencing
Working Together
Developing Self and Others
Delivering at Pace
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
- Range of health and wellbeing support
Any move to UKHSA from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare.
Reserve List:
Candidates who pass the interview criteria but are not offered a post will be kept on a reserve list for 12 months and may be contacted if similar roles become available.
If you are interviewed for the post and do not meet the required threshold for the specified grade, your application may be assessed against a similar, lower grade role and you may be offered the post should one be available.
DBS
People working with government systems must complete Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks which includes a disclosure and barring security check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed for this role is BPSS however there may be a requirement for this role to be SC cleared and you should familiarise yourself with the criteria of security clearance.
This role is Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants. Appointments to roles within UKHSA will be made in accordance with the Civil Service nationality rules. These can be found athttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rulesThis job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- Nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of theEuropean Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- Certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment.
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Its important to note that there are currently exceptions to applications being considered if your conviction relates to any of the following:
- life sentences
- arson
- sexual offences
- hate and terror offences
Some departments will also consider the specific offence against the nature of the business, i.e., a conviction for fraud may rule you out for a finance role
Contact Details Sophie.Rigney@reed.com
