Technical Data Lead - Scalable Approach to Vulnerability Via Interoperability; Savvi) GMCA Posted

Contract: 12-month Fixed term with the possibility of extension.

Salary:
Grade 10 (Subject to Job Evaluation)

Help transform how Greater Manchester supports its most vulnerable residents.

Greater Manchester is leading a pioneering approach to prevention through the implementation of SAVVI (Scalable Approach to Vulnerability via Interoperability) and Open Referral UK data standards, creating the foundations for more connected, proactive and person-centred public services.

To help deliver this ambition, we are establishing a new SAVVI Office: a specialist team bringing together governance, data and transformation expertise to help partners identify need earlier, share information responsibly and coordinate support more effectively.

This work sits at the heart of Greater Manchester's commitment to public service reform, prevention and early intervention. Through the SAVVI Office, we will help local authorities, public services and community organisations work together around the people and places that need support most.

We are recruiting three complementary leadership roles that together will form Greater Manchester's SAVVI Centre of Excellence.

The SAVVI Office will bring together specialist information governance, technical data and transformation capability. Together, these roles will provide the governance, technical expertise and change leadership needed to support local authorities and partners to adopt consistent approaches to data sharing, interoperability and service transformation. The team will act as a centre of excellence, helping Greater Manchester build sustainable regional capability, accelerate prevention-focused use cases, and share learning locally, regionally and nationally.

Together, these roles will help establish sustainable regional capability that supports:

• Prevention and early intervention rather than crisis response.
• Safe, ethical and trusted information sharing.
• Better joined-up support for vulnerable residents.
• Consistent adoption of SAVVI and Open Referral UK standards.
• Scalable solutions that can be shared across Greater Manchester and beyond.
• Improved outcomes through stronger collaboration between organisations.

Role Overview:

GMCA is seeking a technically skilled and public service-minded Technical Data Lead to provide the technical data leadership required to implement and embed the SAVVI approach across our organisation and wider partnership landscape.

This role will sit within Digital Services and will benefit from close collaboration with the Information and Data Governance directorate and the wider SAVVI team. You will work closely with two other SAVVI specific roles: a Senior Information and Data Governance Lead and a Transformation Coach. Together you will form the SAVVI subject matter expert team within the organisation.

You will set the technical direction for SAVVI-related data design, standards and interoperability, ensuring that data is managed properly and meets organisational, partner and service needs. You will work with local authorities, GMCA, TfGM, digital, data, legal, information security, service delivery and national SAVVI/iStandUK partners to help design reliable, secure, scalable and ethical approaches to data sharing.

This is a unique opportunity to help build the data architecture, schemas, APIs, integration patterns, metadata and technical documentation needed to support the identification of vulnerability and better coordination of support for people and households across Greater Manchester.

• Provide technical data leadership for SAVVI implementation across Greater Manchester.
• Shape and support the technical data architecture for SAVVI-related delivery, including data models, schemas, APIs, metadata, integration patterns and secure data exchange approaches.
• Help partners implement SAVVI standards and templates in real-world service settings.
• Support the integration of data from multiple systems and organisations, ensuring alignment, interoperability, data quality and appropriate reuse of existing data and data systems.
• Work with technical architects, data teams, service managers and partners to ensure systems are designed in line with enterprise data architecture, information governance requirements and SAVVI principles.
• Advise on secure, ethical and privacy-by-design approaches to data exchange, working closely with information governance, legal and security colleagues.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear,…