Deputy Director Platforms and Technology - Department for Transport - SCS1

Location

Birmingham, Leeds, Hastings, London and Swansea. Frequent travel to other sites may be required.

As a member of the SCS you will be leading teams working on a hybrid basis. The expectation is that you will spend over the 60% workplace attendance requirement of your time in the workplace. Some travel to other DfT workplaces may be required.

Job summary

This is an exciting time to join the Digital, Information, and Security Directorate within the department for Transport as we restructure our directorate to ensure are ready for future challenges building a more sustainable, skilled, and in-house capability and ensuring that we are well equipped to efficiently and expertly deal with the increased and ever evolving cyber-security threat, and lead the digital transformation of the department to realise the Government’s ambitions set out in the Blueprint for a Modern Digital Government.

Our restructuring will require a significant change in how we work to ensure we deliver clear outcomes to our customers and continue to learn and improve. As part of the senior leadership team, the role will be pivotal in creating, shaping, and nurturing the cultural change needed and through strong leadership and role modelling will reinforce the directorate’s cultural goals.

This role will sit at the head of our Platforms Function
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This team is responsible for the efficient delivery of secure, robust, and scalable technology foundations to enable digital delivery and transformation across DfTc and the wider DfT Group.

This multi-disciplinary team is dedicated to delivering robust technological foundations that support digital transformation, including maintaining a secure and compliant IT environment, enabling collaboration and digital productivity, and ensuring scalable and reliable IT services.

The team drives innovation through data-driven insights and supports a connected, integrated IT infrastructure. The team are also responsible for managing security operations and cyber resilience, overseeing cloud computing and infrastructure, and guiding technology architecture.

This is a new role within the directorate that draws together our architecture, cloud and cyber-security operations capability. You will be expected to deliver a step-change in our capabilities in these areas.

Working as part of a talented team, at this role level, you will:

• Rebuild the organisation’s architecture capability, drive further strengthening of our cyber-security posture, and ensure diligent management of the configuration of our cloud estate
• Develop, deliver and continuously maintain a capability development plan for the Platforms and Technology team to ensure they are meeting the evolving
• requirements of the wider directorate and organisation
• Actively engage the wider organisation to understand and evaluate the organisation’s range of information and communication technology requirements
• Create a strategy and vision for technology that aligns with the organisation’s broader digital strategy and enables the organisation to achieve its objectives
• Lead the organisation in implementing this technology strategy
• Put in place a technology architecture that provides secure and reliable infrastructure and ensures financial efficiency of technology spend
• Ensure systems and services are continuously operational and resistant to attacks and disasters
• Enable the organisation to be innovative and adopt new technologies that offer value
• Work within appropriate levels of risk
• Ensure people have the tools, technical skills and working environment they need
• Create working practices and process that support effective delivery

• Role model positive behaviours and support the embedding of the new operating model and the changes to the ways of working, including continuous personal development.
• Effectively line manage a team embedding the civil service line management standards and consistently applying the line management policies and processes
• expected, e.g. managing performance, career conversations, team development, succession planning.
• Develop and implement clear and…