About the job

Job summary

The Corporate Transformation & Workplace Directorate sits within DG Corporate, a family of core services. Within the Directorate, Corporate Transformation is a relatively new team, focussed on delivering new corporate services that underpin much of the work that government does. Systems and processes put in place some time ago are no longer fit for the government we have become, and for the journey ahead. Core services and capabilities need refreshed, creating new levels of service, ease of use, and productivity gains.

 

Our value within the organisation is in problem resolution and the creation and delivery of services that enables the organisation as a whole.

 

The Corporate Transformation & Workplace Directorate will be responsible for many programmes and initiatives, critical to the ongoing development of SG as we grow. The Transformation Design and Architecture Division is home to people with business, data and digital architecture, design and analysis skills and expertise. We will develop the shared understanding of what the future state for corporate services needs to look like, and the stepping stones we will need to take to get there. Understanding our target business architecture, our overall data strategy for corporate services, and the components that together make up the ‘corporate platform’ will be key to our success.

 

Our team will also support programmes or projects that become initiatives in our roadmap. The Shared Services Programme is the first of these and is transforming our finance and HR services by moving to a standard set of best practice processes and features and adopting a new integrated cloud platform.

 

This initial focus of this new, varied and rewarding role will be to support the Shared Services Programme but, in time, to work across the entire corporate transformation portfolio of change projects. It will afford you the opportunity to progress into a role that offers autonomy in how you manage your workload, engage with stakeholders at all levels, be involved in organisational initiatives and transformational projects which will also enable your personal development.

 

DDaT Pay Supplement
This post attracts a £5,000 per annum pro-rata DDaT Pay Supplement after a 3 month competency qualifying period. Pay supplements are temporary payments designed to address recruitment and retention issues caused by market pressures and are subject to regular review.

Job description

•Lead, oversee and support the work of a core team of Data Analysts, Architects and engineers as we transform and modernise our corporate services
•Lead the delivery of a modern data platform for corporate data to ensure we gain best value from our investments and our decisions are informed by good data.
•Work closely with colleagues across the data community, helping to foster a Data Architecture Community of Practice, within the wider Scottish Data Community, to encourage consistent approaches, the exchange of expertise, and peer review/support
across the Scottish Public Sector.
•Coordinating with peers from different design and architecture disciplines across Corporate Transformation, to design and deliver coherent corporate solutions.
•Develop our data engineering capability in Corporate Transformation as we build innovative corporate solutions
•Build a robust data integration framework ensuring our integrations are secure, flexible and adaptable.
•Embrace opportunities to enhance our publication of open data, enabling greater transparency in public services.
•Work with the Chief Architect to help build our the portfolio of strategic change, ensuring investment in data is a key corporate priority.

Person specification

1. Extensive experience of operational Data Architecture across service organisations, and large corporate data estates - translating organisational and local business processes and policies into coherent data models, appropriate metadata, test data, and data quality standards.
2. Practical experience of Data Engineering and physical data modelling in large complex organisations, simplifying existing architecture and data pipelines for efficiency and deduplication. Experience delivering solutions within the Data Lake and Data Mesh paradigms.
3. Experience of encouraging operational process change, to enable interoperability, through data governance and organisational governance frameworks.
4. Experience of building high performing data capabilities within an organisation.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £73,757, Scottish Government contributes £19,914 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

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Selection process details

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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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