Deputy Director - Digital Delivery

Hybrid - Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, Salford

Integrated Corporate Services (ICS) Digital provides the secure technology, modern platforms and specialist delivery capability that help government organisations deliver effective public services.

Operating across departmental and organisational boundaries, we work with customer departments, Arm's Length Bodies and delivery partners to design, build and operate high-quality digital and data services. We provide shared platforms and common capabilities that reduce duplication, improve resilience and enable organisations to deliver at greater pace and scale.

This is an opportunity to take on a senior leadership role at the heart of digital government, shaping how secure, scalable and user-centred services are delivered across a complex and high-profile portfolio.

ICS Digital is part of Integrated Corporate Services (ICS), a shared services organisation providing commercial, digital, estates, HR and security services across government. ICS sits within the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), whose mission is to make the UK a clean energy superpower by delivering clean electricity by 2030 and accelerating the UK's journey to net zero. By joining us, you will play a key role in helping to deliver that ambition and make a real difference.

Our digital teams provide secure end-user technology, modern platforms, data services and expert delivery support. We also help organisations navigate government standards, strengthen resilience, adopt reusable technology and introduce emerging capabilities, including AI, where they can deliver meaningful value.

The Deputy Director – Digital Delivery will work across a complex federated environment, bringing together policy, technology, operations, commercial teams, delivery partners and senior stakeholders. Reporting to the Group Chief Digital and Information Officer, you will provide strategic leadership across a varied portfolio and ensure that departmental priorities are translated into practical, sustainable digital outcomes.

As Deputy Director – Digital Delivery, you will lead the delivery of secure, resilient and scalable digital services across ICS Digital's customer organisations.

You will set the strategic direction for a significant digital delivery portfolio, ensuring that services, platforms and capabilities are designed around user needs and delivered to the required standards. You will create the conditions for multidisciplinary teams to perform effectively, balancing immediate delivery priorities with the development of sustainable, reusable capabilities.

Working with senior leaders across departments and partner organisations, you will build strong relationships, navigate competing priorities and establish a clear, shared view of delivery outcomes. You will provide confidence that programmes are appropriately governed, risks are understood and teams are focused on the work that will deliver the greatest impact.

This role requires a collaborative and delivery-focused leader who is comfortable operating across organisational boundaries and influencing decisions in a complex environment. You will combine strategic perspective with a practical understanding of how to turn ambition into services that work.

• Leading a significant portfolio of digital delivery activity and setting its strategic direction, priorities and operating approach.
• Translating departmental and organisational priorities into clear, achievable and sustainable digital delivery plans.
• Providing leadership to multidisciplinary teams responsible for designing, building and continuously improving digital and data services.
• Ensuring services are secure, resilient, scalable and centred on the needs of users.
• Building effective relationships across customer departments, Arm's Length Bodies, delivery organisations and strategic partners.
• Establishing proportionate governance, assurance and performance arrangements that support delivery at pace.
• Managing dependencies, risks and competing priorities across a complex federated environment.
• Developing common capabilities and reusable approaches that reduce duplication and improve delivery across organisations.
• Working with commercial and supplier partners to ensure that external capability delivers value and supports long-term organisational outcomes.
• Strengthening digital delivery capability, leadership and professional practice across ICS Digital.
• Supporting the responsible adoption of emerging technology, including AI, where it can improve services and organisational performance.