Change Command is reponsible for managing and delivering a significant portfolio of change activity across the NCA and with partners. This activity is transforming how the NCA delivers its mission to cut serious and organised crime.

This role will focus on co-ordinating the delivery of an exciting and challenging build of key operational capabilities within the NCA.

Job description

Based in our London hub you will be working with internal and external senior stakeholders, business leads and colleagues in Change and other enabling functions to:

- Provide specialist technical and data expertise to the Chief Architect, other members of the architecture team, and the wider NCA; leading on data technologies, ETL, data integration, data enrichment, and data modelling.

- Provide data architecture leadership, including the creation and maintenance of the corporate data model.

- Define and maintain enterprise wide data standards, practices, and design patterns, ensuring these align with the enterprise architectural plan HMG strategies, policies, standards and industry good practise.

- Create and maintain a roadmap for data and technology and ensure these align with strategic direction.

- Lead the design (or assurance) of the data aspects of solutions and applications, including data structures, databases, file systems, schemas and metadata.

- Establish and embed standards for data quality and its measurement.

- Assure compliance with data architectures, standards, practices, making recommendations to higher design authorities as needed.

- Lead workshops and similar consultations with users and others to identify user needs and how users consume and categorise content.

- Look across the agency and externally to identify and learn from data and information architecture developments and trends.

- To be considered, you will need to successfully complete an SC Enhanced clearance before commencing the role with the ability to obtain a DV clearance within the first 12 months in post. If DV cannot be obtained the officer will be required to move to a non-DV role.

- You will also be required to undertake a mandatory pre-employment substance misuse test and achieve a satisfactory result.

- This role is available on a secondment basis.
 

Responsibilities

To be successful in this role you will have strong data architecture expertise combined with areas of deeper knowledge of technologies and practice, broad understanding of all architecture domains, and strong stakeholder and consultative skills.

You will be able to demonstrate the following Behaviour Competencies at interview:
- Leadership

- Changing and improving

- Making effective decisions

You will also be able to demonstrate the experience criteria set out below:
- Practical experience of leading the data architecture and design elements of complex, large-scale programmes and projects.

- Practical experience of data architecture and design as applied to data exploitation and analytics capabilities. Demonstrate knowledge and experience of current and emerging analytical tools and technologies both on-premise and using public cloud (specifically AWS and/or Microsoft Azure).


You will also be able to demonstrate the following technical criteria:
- The ability to make and guide effective technical and data decisions, explaining clearly how the decision has been reached. The ability to understand and resolve technical disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk.

As a leader in the NCA you will also:
- Lead your team or work stream effectively, through being flexible and open in thought and action.

- Communicate with transparency, involving your team members in the agency’s transformation journey.

- Role model the agency’s ‘One NCA’ vision

- Be passionate about diversity and developing people inclusively, strengthening their ability to deliver and enabling them to grow in their roles and careers. You will actively coach and engage people, building their resilience through supporting them in their roles and enabling their wellbeing.

- Be threat led and data-driven in decision making, navigating your team members through ambiguity by making evidence and/or values-based decisions to prioritise strategically. You are proactive and ambitious on efficiencies, finding opportunities to remove duplication and standardising and simplifying where possible. Doing so, you will balance financial and people resources to deliver against changing priorities.

Additional Information:
- The NCA is a 24/7 organisation and working patterns must support business requirements. You may occasionally be asked to respond at short notice or outside of core hours but this it is not an essential requirement to do so.

- On occasions officers may be required to travel throughout the UK and overseas.

Technical skills

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

• The ability to make and guide effective technical and data decisions, explaining clearly how the decision has been reached. The ability to understand and resolve technical disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk.
• Practical experience of leading the data architecture and design elements of complex, large-scale programmes and projects.
• Practical experience of data architecture and design as applied to data exploitation and analytics capabilities

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check