DSR Chief Software Engineer and Team Leader

Role DSR Chief Software Engineer and Team Leader

Grade/Salary: £88-95k

Location:

Home/Milton Keynes area
Contract type:
Permanent
Travel:
Typically 2dpw on site. Some London

Hours:

8.30-5.30 37 hours/week
Reporting to:
Ian Stevenson, SVGC CTO

Owing to our continued growth and trusted reputation, we are seeking a skilled and proactive Chief Software and Systems Engineer to join our Software and Secure Cloud team. Initially deployed to our Digital Sensitivity Review team. This position is ideal for someone with a significant amount of Software solutions experience particularly in the public sector, used to security, solution scrutiny and team leadership.

In this role, you will be responsible for all aspects of the delivery of our Digital Records and Archive Management (DRAM) and Digital Sensitivity Review (DSR) programmes of work as well as providing guidance to other Software and Data Science activities within the business.

You will become the primary point of contact for DRAM and DSR software architecture, solution development, secure software operations. You will be developing and implementing strategies, policies, and procedures.

You will be responsible for the planning, design, evolution, implementation and integrity of our DRAM and DSR solutions.
Your work will directly impact multiple Government departments compliance with national legislative obligations.

You will work closely with the Head of Technology, the Data Science teams and DRAM/DSR Project and Programme managers including those delivering direct to client solutions. You will support the project and programme managers in estimating and preparing and managing budgets and resources.

This role will report to the SVGC Group Chief Technical Office (CTO). You will be ensuring compliance with departmental security and operating requirements.

You will lead and manage the team of Software and Secure Cloud Engineers ensuring efficiency and effectiveness in their activities, working closely with the SVGC Group Chief Technical Officer. In this role you will be assessing and evaluating operations and systems, proposing recommendations and solutions for improvement.

Every UK Government department is obliged to transfer all public records to The National Archives (TNA), demonstrating full transparency of processes and public spending. Pre the dawn of computers in the workplace, files were stored and processed manually on paper. However, since the digital revolution Government department files were being stored both digitally and on paper.

This has meant that the DSR for the Government departments has become an enormous and challenging task. The sheer number of digital files selected and taken through sensitivity review is vast and requires innovative solutions to ensure the records are processed securely and to achieve the greatest possible release to the public in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Having provided consultancy services to improve business efficiency, as well as training, support and guidance, SVGC also engineered and integrated new state of the art technology solutions.

With a digital record system that has expanded exponentially over the years it was clear that the Government departments required new technology that helped Sensitivity Reviewers to work more quickly, reduce risk, to be robust enough to meet rigorous government security protocols and was easy to use. The problem was, this digital system didn’t exist – so we created it.

The development of our bespoke, state of the art digital system has resulted in the departmental teams pivoting from digitally-averse to pro-active in the identification and road-mapping of how and where digital solutions help – not just within the digital record but with the greater backlog in the paper record.

With support and training, the operations managers and reviewer teams have been able to use the system with ease and the introduction of semi-automation and advanced analytics capabilities has reduced human effort where it makes sense to do so. Progress on other applications to enhance core…