Deputy Director - Digital Infrastructure & Security Operations (DISO)

Job summary

This is a Nationally based role

Job description

The Role

This is a senior role at Deputy Director level, reporting directly to the MoJ’s Director of Technology within the CDIO team.

The Deputy Director of Digital Infrastructure & Security Operations will be responsible for the delivery of networking, Hybrid Cloud and voice & video services that meet the changing needs of all MoJ business areas.

Services include:

• Core networking services
• WAN, LAN, Voice and Video services across more than 1200 sites
• Wi-Fi in courts, office buildings, prisons and probation service buildings
• Hosting services in legacy datacentre and Cloud environments
• Secure video services connecting police stations, courts and prisons
• Corporate telephony, video and mobile services
• Prisoner facing LAN, Wi-Fi and telephony and video services
• Security Operations Centre services for Justice Digital.

You will:

• Build, lead and motivate a team of Service Owners, Technical Architects, Engineers, Operations Managers, Budget Managers and Delivery Managers
• Work with the technology operations, live service operations and customer services teams to ensure a customer-focused support function
• Set the strategy and roadmap for transformation to ensure services meet the needs of our users both now and into the future
• Work as part of the leadership team to create a progressive and inclusive culture and drive performance
• Lead a team of over 270+ staff across multiple locations
• Manage a budget of c.£110m, including responsibility for identifying efficiencies in outsourced technology and reducing the level of legacy IT systems

For more information on key responsibilities please access the candidate information pack attached to this advert below.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Running complex technology services at scale.
• Developing a vision, strategy and service roadmaps for Digital Infrastructure services.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to build consensus where there are multiple and conflicting priorities.
• Strong commercial acumen, constantly seeking to enhance understanding to deliver business benefit.
• In depth knowledge of infrastructure technologies, preferably supported by an engineering background.
• Managing large budgets, suppliers and contracts.
• Experience of building and leading a diverse, collaborative and high-performance working culture.

Person specification

For full details about the Role, Key Responsibilities and Person Specification, please download and review the Candidate Information pack

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Your technical skills will be tested during interview either in the form of a presentation or a technical question.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £81,000, Ministry of Justice contributes £23,465 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.For full details of the Selection Process and Recruitment Timeline, please view the Candidate Information pack.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : SCS Recruitment Team
• Email : scsrecruitment@justice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : scsrecruitment@justice.gov.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitm…

https://jobs.justice.gov.uk/careers/JobDetail/15007?entityId=15007

Attachments

DISO Candidate Information Pack Opens in new window (docx, 4049kB)DISO Accessible Pack Opens in new window (docx, 63kB)