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G2 Senior Manager, Technical Architect - Change

Employer
National Crime Agency.
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
£54,380
Closing date
25 Nov 2019

Job Details

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

Key Responsibilities include:

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 strategic technical leadership and architectural design to drive forward the provision of capabilities and services that enable and enhance the business.
• Working to the Chief Architect, set the strategic direction for all IT related domains in the NCA and ensure coherence with the wider government approach to IT.
• Establish and maintain architectural principles, standards, blueprints, roadmaps and transitions states that underpin all IT design and delivery in the NCA.
• Lead the work with projects to embed the architectural design gates within the overall governance process ensuring reference information is published, maintained and readily available.
• Maintain a broad and up-to-date knowledge of current state and emerging developments across technology areas including infrastructure, networks, applications and data; bring this knowledge and expertise to bear in the design of systems.
• Provide professional leadership and development for technical architects across the NCA.
• Manage, coach and develop staff, work cooperatively with colleagues and stakeholders to promote high-performance, and manage issues relating to the performance and conduct of officers in line with NCA values.

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 based in London and available on a secondment basis.
 

Responsibilities

To be successful in this role you will have strong 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: (assessed at interview only)

• Leadership
• Changing and improving
• Making effective decisions

You will also be able to demonstrate the technical criteria set out below:
a) How you have led technical architecture and design within complex, large-scale programmes or projects.
b) How you bridge the gap between the technical and non-technical; making complex technical concepts accessible to all.
c) Your ability to work with business and technology stakeholders to translate business problems into technical designs for systems characterised by high levels of risk, impact and business or technical complexity.
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.

• NCA are able to offer these opportunities on a permanent and secondment basis.

Behaviours

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

  • Leadership
  • Changing and Improving
  • Making Effective Decisions

Technical skills

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

  • a) How you have led technical architecture and design within complex, large-scale programmes or projects.
  • b) How you bridge the gap between the technical and non-technical; making complex technical concepts accessible to all.
  • c) Your ability to work with business and technology stakeholders to translate business problems into technical designs for systems characterised by high levels of risk, impact and business or technical complexity.

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

Company

Organised crime is one of the gravest threats to national security - blighting communities, ruining lives and costing the UK well over £34 billion every year. Organised crime can feel distant from most peoples’ day to day lives, but it affects us all. From the sexual exploitation of children to the smuggling of illegal firearms, cyber crime, human trafficking and modern slavery - serious and organised crime is everywhere.

The National Crime Agency's role is to protect the public from the most serious threats by disrupting and bringing to justice those serious and organised criminals who present the highest risk to the UK.

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