About the job

Job summary

Every individual and business in the UK are a direct customer of HMRC, as we collect the money that pays for the UK’s public services and gives people who need it vital financial support. In the current economic climate, our work never has been more critical.

We are one of the largest and most digitally focussed organisations in the UK and are undergoing a thrilling strategic change programme, underpinned by a substantial enterprise system and shared services capability. Our overall team of 4,000 digital experts is in fact undertaking one of the biggest digital and technology transformations in Europe, as we drive towards a high performing landscape of innovative technology. This era will see us cement our position as a fiscal world leader, with a real-time, resilient, and fully digital tax system.

A critical part of our technology transformation is the continued development of technology within Borders and Trade and as Director of Engineering your role will support the vital and broad reaching work of HMRC. The Borders and Trade group was formed in 2019 and continues to adopt technology which enables HMRC to protect society facilitate trade and grow the UK economy. The work you do will assist millions of Britons every day.

As our new Director of Engineering, you will lead on the design build and development of core infrastructure and provide critical direction on Engineering strategy.  As the senior leader of this function, working in tandem with the CIO, you will sit at the very heart of a high-profile transformation, ensuring that a future Civil Service becomes more effective in supporting the nation.  

Job description

Key Responsibilities 

• Setting the vision and direction for the engineering function
• Identifying underlying technology requirements to support business platform capability and lead technology specialists in the creation of services.
• Lead on the Development, Quality Assurance, and Automation disciplines, driving the adoption of best practice across the organisation.
• Building strategic, collaborative, and constructive relationships with a growing ecosystem of digital and third-party technology suppliers, championing emerging standards, principles, and policies to embed collaboration.
• Build a high-calibre Engineering capability and evolve HMRCs approach to technology.
• Implement engineering best practices end-to-end to significantly reduce our time to market.
• Own the technical quality of HMRC CDIO Borders & Trade engineering.
• Lead on the advancement of technical strategies to deliver robust, scalable technical solutions.

Person specification

Essential Criteria:

• The ability to effectively lead a large and diverse team of c. 150 and manage organisational interactions with a community of senior technical contributors.
• Managing complex Cloud migration and optimisation of existing Cloud workload and practices (Primarily AWS)
• Be a leader on the build of processes and tooling to support the software development lifecycle, with proven success at all stages of the engineering process and product lifecycle.
• Expertise in multiple technologies across software engineering, security, data interchange, data management.
• Significant software development and infrastructure architecture experience in designing large scale services.
• Solid expertise with practical application of agile development methods, leading delivery teams in an Agile/Continuous Delivery environment.

 

This role is open to public sector and private sector candidates and would suit someone with experience of working inside large scale organisations. Your work and legacy will affect millions of people and raise your profile across Government as a Director of Engineering.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £75,000, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £20,250 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

For further information or to apply please email HMRC-DOE@global-resourcing.com or contact Rebecca Connor or Dave Flynn on 020 8253 1806 to arrange an informal conversation.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

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Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). 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 also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.