Head of Cyber Technical Leadership

3 days ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Home Office Full time

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

- 284483**Salary**:

- £65,500 - £77,550- National: £65,500 - £72,050 London: £70,500 - £77,550 Suitability for an additional Recruitment and Retention Allowance of up to £10,250 will be assessed at interview**Job grade**:

- Grade 6**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HO - Digital Data and Technology**Type of role**:

- Architecture and Data
- Digital
- Information Technology**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Compressed Hours**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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Location
- Croydon, ManchesterAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Team members have specialised knowledge and a calling to build on it. We want the best people to come to the Home Office and work in the diverse roles and communities they’re passionate about. This is how we produce exceptional outcomes.

The Home Office has created a government-leading bespoke career framework that enables career planning, while ensuring our people can be the best they can be. The framework includes Heads of Role, who are industry specialists. They build communities, set standards for what ‘good’ looks like, and ensure we have the right people in the right jobs at the right time.

We also have a profession management unit, which aims to provide the best professional experience to all our technical staff with a real passion for - and focus on - continuous professional development. We invest heavily in our people as part of growing our collective capability.

**Job description**:
As a key member of the Home Office Cyber Security (HOCS) leadership team, You will play a critical role in providing secure digital, data and technology services at the Home Office, supporting vital national infrastructure and Home Office services. Your role will involve driving the security of services supporting a user-base of 35,000+ Home Office users, over 400 public-facing services used by millions, and diverse critical business areas including UK Visa & Immigration, Border Force, HMPO and policing.

As a Grade 6 Head of Cyber Technology Leadership, you will be accountable for leading the Enterprise Security Architecture strategy for the Home Office, and the wider security architect professional community within it. You will provide direction for the secure delivery of government services and will be required to effectively translate business objectives and risk management strategies into specific security processes enabled by security technologies and services.

You will be required to build strategic, collaborative and constructive relationships with a growing ecosystem of digital and third-party technology suppliers. This will include developing and championing emerging standards, principles or policies to support with this collaboration.

You will identify how security teams and practices can become leaner by removing unnecessary overheads and advising on how they can deliver more with existing capabilities. Through establishing effective ways of working, you will ensure that we meet our commitments, increasing the certainty and security of the outcomes we achieve. You will be accountable for ensuring that we deliver to cost and quality standards, and managing risks and dependencies across multiple teams.

We are looking for someone who is strategic and forward thinking in terms of how we engage with the business, use technology and achieve our long-term goals. You will strive to deliver better outcomes and value for money by encouraging and embedding a culture of continuous improvement within the portfolio and across wider security and technology teams.

As a leader within DDaT and HOCS, you will inspire others and establish a team and a culture that individuals feel proud to be a part of.

Occasional travel may be required.

**Person specification**:
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:

- Develops and maintains a security architecture process that enables the enterprise to develop and implement security solutions and capabilities that are clearly aligned with business, technology and threat drivers
- Develops security strategy plans and roadmaps based on sound enterprise architecture practices
- Develops and maintains security architecture artefacts (e.g., models, templates, standards and procedures) that can be used to leverage security capabilities in projects and operations
- Support delivery of high-quality, secure, stable and resilient services that are available to the wider organisation, ensuring the appropriate strategic supplier contracts are in place where required
- Identifying and managing key areas of security risk, from technical debt to budget constraints, lack of capacity and security threats
- Providing leadership to security architecture professionals to ensure that they are managed effectively and continue to align with and work towards the Departmental Cyber Security Strategy
- Defining and leading approp

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