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Job summary

Join Our Team at Ofgem: Head of Data Platforms

At Ofgem, we’re committed to ensuring that every household and business in the UK can rely on a safe, affordable, and environmentally sustainable energy supply. As we accelerate the transition to Net Zero and a carbon-neutral energy system, we’re seeking a dynamic Head of Data Platforms to shape and advance our technology landscape.

As the Head of Data Platforms, you’ll be the driving force behind technical decisions, ensuring our systems are robust, scalable, and aligned with business objectives. Reporting to the Head of Data Engineering and Operations, you’ll collaborate closely with product owners, engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver exceptional solutions.

What will you be doing?

1. Platform Roadmap:

• Serve as the technical go-to person for the Senior Product Owner and Product Owner.
• Collaborate on defining the platform roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Advise on technical feasibility, risks, and trade-offs when adding new functionalities.

1. Azure Platform Expertise:

• Stay informed about changes and updates to Azure platforms from Microsoft.
• Assess potential risks to existing applications and pipelines due to platform changes.
• Lead efforts to prevent or resolve any issues arising from platform updates.

1. Innovation and Optimization:

• Act as an advisor on new Microsoft products and services.
• Identify opportunities to enhance our platforms using new technologies.
• Drive continuous improvement in data management practices through innovative solutions.

1. Architectural Leadership:

• Lead the development of new features and solutions on the architectural side of the platform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for timely deployment of new features.
• Maintain architectural integrity, scalability, and performance.
• Create and maintain the platform’s architectural documentation.
• Ensure alignment with industry standards and compliance requirements.

We thrive on inclusivity and diversity at Ofgem, fostering a delivery-oriented environment that encourages collaborative efforts across a spectrum of professions and disciplines. Here, diversity is celebrated, innovation is nurtured, and creativity flourishes, making it an ideal space for you to excel and contribute.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a high-profile environment where your efforts will directly impact millions of energy consumers. Your skills will not only be put into action but will also influence the real world, shaping the future of the energy sector for the benefit of consumers and driving us closer to achieving the ambitious goal of Net Zero.

Join us in shaping the future of energy platforms at Ofgem! 

Job description

Ofgem has a culture of inclusion that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our colleagues. It fuels our innovation and helps ensure we can best represent the consumers and the communities we serve. Everyone is welcome - as an inclusive workplace, our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work.

Purpose

• Lead multi-disciplinary teams in a specific work area in the context of operating in a Professions and Flexible Resourcing model.
• Plan, oversee and deliver a set of work deliverables on time and to a high standard through effective project management and support of multidisciplinary team members.
• Provide inclusive team leadership by supporting and developing team members and demonstrating commitment to Ofgem values.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the technical go-to person for the Senior Product Owner and Product Owner.
• Collaborate on defining the platform roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Advise on technical feasibility, risks, and trade-offs when adding new functionalities to the platforms.
• Stay informed about changes and updates to Azure and Power platforms from Microsoft.
• Assess potential risks to existing applications and pipelines due to platform changes.
• Lead efforts to prevent or resolve any issues arising from platform updates.
• Act as an advisor on new Microsoft products and services.
• Identify opportunities to enhance our platforms by leveraging new technologies.
• Drive continuous improvement in data management practices through innovative solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely deployment of new features.
• Maintain architectural integrity, scalability, and performance.
• Sets clear and transparent work objectives, milestones and success metrics at team and individual level to oversee and co-ordinate successful team outcomes.

• Collaborates closely with other teams to manage interdependencies, risks and resourcing to support portfolio delivery.

• Jointly responsible with the PDL on welfare and pastoral care of all colleagues.

• Demonstrates effective diversity and inclusive team management within their team and the wider organisation.

Key Outputs and Deliverables

• Develop a roadmap for the development of data platforms to achieve Ofgem’s objectives and technology goals.
• Lead the development of new features and solutions on the architectural side of the platform.
• Create and maintain the platform’s architectural documentation.
• Ensure alignment with industry standards and compliance requirements.

Setting-up and leading high-performing team based on effective resource management, ongoing support and professional development

• Manages effective and inclusive team resourcing and staff onboarding through close engagement with relevant Deputy Director, Workstream Managers, Heads of Professions, PDLs and HR Staffers to ensure best talent match to work needs.

• Helps team members deliver by building supportive, inclusive team environment based on trust-based relationships, transparency and inclusivity.

• Takes ownership for own and team members’ professional development by:

-         Providing ongoing coaching and identification of development opportunities in regular performance conversations.

-         Supporting team member’s performance evaluation through honest, fair, high quality 360 degree feedback to PDLs.

Person specification

• Experience monitoring impact, service quality or value delivered from work, platform and service (LEAD)
• Extensive experience designing, deploying, and servicing modern cloud data technologies (e.g. Microsoft PowerBI, Microsoft PowerApps, Microsoft PowerPages, Microsoft PowerAutomate service) to deliver a resilient and scalable platform (LEAD)
• Demonstrable experience in data technologies and development processes
• Experience prioritising development time, effort or financial resource across a portfolio of work
• Clear written and verbal communication at a senior management level
• Experience of translating business requirements in technical requirements and vice-versa

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £58,520, OFGEM contributes £15,800 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

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

When you press the ‘Apply now’ button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications.

You will then be asked to provide a 1250 word ‘personal statement’ evidencing how you meet the essential and desirable skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your personal statement, how you meet each of the essential and desirable skills and capabilities.

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).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). 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

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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.