Senior Digital Service Ownet

In this role you will:

• Run the operational and continuous improvement of digital services.
• Be the point of escalation for IT Digital Services.
• Take accountability the end-to-end management and governance of digital services.

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  Leadership

  As a leader in Defence you will help shape, role model and bring to life the ‘One Defence' mindset that will enable us to deliver our vision and strategic objectives. Your leadership style must be inspiring, confident and empowering. Working at every level of our organisation to break down silos, unite teams and create a culture that is trusting, collaborative, innovative, diverse and inclusive. Enabling us to deliver with pace and agility through the skills, commitment and empowerment of our employees and military colleagues.

  Safety at Dstl

  • You must appreciate and be responsible for the health and safety of yourself and others;
  • You will drive and influence a proactive and positive health and safety culture whereby everyone is empowered to report their concerns, no matter how small, and to stop work where they feel it is unsafe;
    Person specification

    About you:

    • You will be experienced in working in agile, at a strategic level and implementation to an operational level
    • You will have led and managed multiple IT Digital services meeting quality and contractual standards.
    • You will have experience of delivering IT digital services through different resource models including internal, contracted workers and third-party contracts.

      Interested? Find out more in the candidate pack attached to Civil Service Jobs.

      Important Information

      Our work in defence, security and intelligence requires our employees to be UK Nationals who are able to gain a high level of security clearance to undertake the projects we are involved in to protect us from security threats. For this reason, only UK Nationals will be able to apply for this role. If you are an international or dual-national candidate, and you think you have the skills we need, please consider applying to any of our government, security or defence partners.

      This role will require full UK security clearance and you should have resided in the UK for the past 5 years. For some roles Developed Vetting will also be required, in this case you should have resided in the UK for the past 10 years.

      If you are a current Dstl employee you must ensure your line manager is aware of your application and the potential situation regarding release dates, if successful and a start date is not agreed it could result in the job offer being withdrawn.

      Qualifications

      • ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) level 3 certified (or equivalent experience)
      • Agile working e.g. PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner, Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) or similar