IT Service Owner

2 weeks ago


Exeter, United Kingdom Met Office Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 299704**Salary**:

- £45,150 - £49,890- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Information Technology**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Exeter, South West England, EX1 3PBAbout the job

**Job summary**:
We’re looking for two exceptional IT Service Owners to help us make a difference to our planet. We have an opportunity in our Defence and Transport team and Public Hazards and Resilience team.

Our IT Service Owner will work a hybrid pattern of homeworking and monthly visits to our Exeter HQ.

Why join us?

We provide critical weather services and world-leading climate science to deliver extraordinary impact and benefit across the globe. Our work helps people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.

**Who we are**:
The Met Office is recruiting for a Solutions Architect to join our fantastic team, working in an organisation with some of the most advanced technology both within and outside UK government and enabling the realisation of weather and climate science to services. We need great people to join us and help us exploit all of the technological benefits that the recent £1.2B investment in our supercomputer will bring.

The Met Office is built on a strong foundation of science and technology excellence. We provide advice and services to industry and the public as well as government both in the UK and through international routes such as our presence at global climate conferences.

Together:

- ** We’re a force for good** - focusing on our environmental and social impact
- ** We’re experts by nature** - always learning and developing to do things better
- ** We live and breathe it** - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
- ** We’re better together** - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
- ** We keep evolving** - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

**Job description**:
We invest in our people to unlock their full potential. As our Service Owner, we will support you to develop and thrive to be the best you can be. We champion positive physical and mental health in the workplace and are committed to being an inclusive organisation, providing a working culture that actively values an equal and diverse workforce.

You can expect to enjoy a flexible working day, we’ll do our best to agree a working pattern that suits you.

As our IT Service Owner the key duties are:

- Being accountable for the quality of a portfolio of services.
- Help us to keep evolving by improving how we support our services in a DevOps environment.
- Managing the relationships with suppliers suppliers to ensure that they build and deliver services on our behalf effectively.
- Managing finances including development of the budgets, appropriate forecasting and management through the financial life cycle.

This role could include line management.

We operate an on-call roster in Technology to provide 24/7/365 support to respond to operational service requirements. This post may be part of an on-call roster and the postholder would be required to participate in an on-call roster where in operation.

**Person specification**:

- ** Financial ownership**. You can secure funding for Agile delivery through a business case and by making a good pitch in government. You can prioritise spending based on return on investment (ROI) and strategic intent. You can be responsible for contract ownership and accountable for the realisation of benefits.
- ** Operational management**. You can manage the operational process of designing and running a product or service throughout its entire product life cycle.
- ** Problem management**. You can understand and identify problems, analysing and helping to identify the appropriate solution. You can classify and prioritise problems, document their causes and implement remedies.
- ** Strategic ownership**. You can effectively focus on outcomes rather than solutions. You can develop ambitious visions and strategies. You can get the organisation and team to buy in. You can translate the vision into prioritised deliverable goals.
- ** User focus**. You can understand users and identify who they are and what their needs are, based on evidence.

For further information on these please refer to the relevant DDaT description on the GOV.UK website.

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £45,150, Met Office contributes £12,190 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.**Our reward package**:
As our IT Service Owner, your starting salary will be £45150.00 and you will have opportunities to progress to £49890.00 over time. New joiners to the Met Office will start on the salary band mínima.


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