Employee Collaboration Platform Manager

Job summary

The Platform Manager works with architects to articulate the potential uses of the platform and ensure that designs make optimal use of the platform’s capabilities. The Platform Manager works with a team of developers to ensure that the platform is maintained and supported and that the capabilities of the platform are available for use by TPR consumers. The Platform Manager works with platform suppliers to understand the roadmap for the platform, prioritising a backlog of work to implement new capabilities and retire capabilities that are end of life.

This is a highly visible role that requires a mix of technical acumen and team leadership skills to drive the execution of the platform. This person must be creative, ask questions, and be comfortable challenging the status quo.

Job description

Primary Responsibilities

• Create, design, support and develop the Platform coordinating efforts with the development team, working on platform architectural implementation.
• Take initiative in solving complex technical problems and recommend original solutions and design approaches to platform requirements, making decisions between competing solutions.
• Own and line manage the platform development team and deliverables, including technical design, logical and physical design of the solution, coding, testing, and debugging.
• Work closely with the architect, to ensure conformance with the overall architectural guidelines.
• Collaborate with Service and Product Owners to manage the backlog of work and ensure the stability of the platform and that capabilities are available to be used in meeting user needs.
• Create a close working relationship with business partners to identify the pain points with the goal of providing better services and products.
• Work with various DDaT architects to explore integration across the overall platform landscape.
• Establish strong relationships, and proactively communicate, with team members as well as individuals across the organization.

Person specification

The role criteria

• M365 Technical Experience across multiple M365 applications and their integration with related Microsoft technologies e.g. Azure Infrastructure, Power Platform, Data Platform.
• Experience in creating a loosely coupled, services-oriented design that can scale for large volumes of data
• Experience supporting extensibility, to plug new modules or services without requiring re-design
• Experience working with, and enhancing, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Development (CD) environments.
• Experience with Open-Source Software around data processing and persistence
• Experience working on pipeline framework
• Strong estimating and planning skills
• Should have worked on Agile scrum or kanban methodology
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £85,126, Pensions Regulator contributes £24,661 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

TPR offers:

• Genuine opportunities for learning and development.
• A values-led, inclusive environment.
• Hybrid working and flexible shift patterns.
• A vibrant workplace with employee networks (Disability, Family, LGBT+, Minority Ethnic, Mental Health, Women’s).

Reward and benefits

We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full-time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

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Selection process details

Applications

To avoid disappointment, we would invite you to submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can continue to provide a positive candidate experience, with each application being reviewed and considered. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Current TPR employees who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.

We welcome applications on a part time and job share basis.

Please note that TPR is unable to offer visa sponsorship. All applicants must already hold Right to Work in the UK for the duration of their employment. For more information on Right to Work, please visit Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK.

Selection and interview

If you are shortlisted for interview, we’ll be in contact with you shortly after the closing date. We aim to respond to every application however due to the large volume of applications this is not always possible. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of submitting your application, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention, and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria will be an offered an interview. Please note that if we receive a high volume of Disability Confident applicants, we reserve the right to offer an interview to those who best meet the essential criteria.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

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

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Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.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 : Recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk
• Email : Recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : Recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk