About the job

Job summary

As the Head of Data Architecture and Governance, you will be responsible for ensuring the agency’s data is built around an efficient data architecture with appropriate governance measures. You will create trust in connected data assets and establish a trustworthy foundation that empowers Homes England to pursue its broad data initiatives.

Job description

Reporting to the Director of Data and Analytics, you will be responsible for coordinating activity around data architecture, governance, and data quality, allowing the agency and wider society to derive maximum value from our data. You will champion Homes England data standards and the value of data to our agency and support the data directorates ambition to mature the use of data and analytics in decision making.

 

 

Critical elements of the role will see you lead on the ongoing development of the agencies conceptual data model, establishing a common business glossary and a library of searchable data assets. You will ensure we have appropriate logical and physical models in place to support our data assets and services and play crucial role in establishing effective governance, including coordination of data ownership across the agency. In addition, you will drive forward work on surfacing data integrity issues to support data improvements and help ensure that the agency understands and makes affective use of its data assets.

 

 

Utilising your communication skillset, you will be responsible for ensuring a strong cross working relationship across the agency, specifically working closely with colleagues in digital and enterprise architecture but also forming a strong relationship with data owners and stewards from across the business areas. In addition, you would be expected to work alongside government departments and policy bodies to share best practice and seek for opportunities to further develop our ability to gain insights by acquiring new data assets to support the Government’s housing and regeneration strategy.

 

This is a truly exciting opportunity to join Homes England.

Person specification

You will be an experienced data architect with a strong background in leading work around data governance and design. With significant experience, in shaping organisation-wide data estate, establishing standards and a governance framework, improving data quality and delivering the architecture for engineers to work from. Experience in wider scale change around data in an organisation would be beneficial. You will hold a relevant degree in data or significant equivalent industry standard experience.

 

 

As the Head of Data Architecture and Governance, you will have demonstrable interpersonal skills, with an ability to form robust and effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders with professional credibility, resilience, and integrity. Furthermore, you will utilise these skills to influence and shape how you collaboratively work with colleagues at all levels across the Agency, to embed the values and behaviours that underpin the Homes England Way.

 

 

You will have a clear understanding of how data should be structured, what is the current best practice and how other data expertise will need to work with a structured data environment to interpret data and gather insights. You will have the ability to communicate the importance of data architecture and governance and a drive to make information easily available to all. As a data expert, you will understand data and be experienced in enhancing data maturity within a fast paced, delivery focussed organisation.

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

 

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

 

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

 

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

 

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

 

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

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Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

 

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

 

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

 

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

 

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

 

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates.  We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us.  Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

 

Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

 

 

Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

 

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Further information

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission. 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.