DDaT Architecture & Engineering Principal - MoD - G6

This post will be part of the Defence Intelligence (DI) Data Office (DO) leading the Architecture and Engineering Teams, providing essential advice and guidance to DI Chief Data Officer (CDO), DI Chief Information Officer and DI Director Strategy and Enterprise (DI S&E).

As a Grade 6 Data or Technical Architect you will use your experience to ensure that the DI DO is empowered to deliver continuously improving data, platform, and software services to improve intelligence delivery and exploitation to DI, MoD, and our mission partners. 

You will ensure that your teams are continuously developed and as part of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), support talent recruitment and retention. Operating across all classifications and working closely with the DI DO Grade 6 Service Owner you will build a service improvement strategy. You will support the development of technical strategies and with the broader SLT you will communicate these strategies to technical and non-technical communities supporting CDO in delivering a data mesh which supports intelligence and broader MoD requirements. 

In Defence Intelligence (DI) our people solve problems, create understanding and give perspective to the diverse and complex Defence threats and challenges in a rapidly changing world. Together our civilians and military personnel inform decision making in Defence, manage complex finance programmes and develop new technology.

In DI we believe your unique experiences, view and understanding of the world could provide a vital perspective and contribution to our work. We recognise that great minds do not think alike and are striving to increase our diversity representation at all levels.  As an equal opportunities employer we hire, train and promote people based on merit and inspire to create an inclusive workplace free of discrimination. We also offer flexible working arrangements such as flexitime, job share and compressed hours.

All jobs adverts in DI are subject to fair and open competition.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week terms and conditions dependent.

Job description

Data is at the heart of our business. The DI CDO is responsible for the curation, sharing and use of data for strategic and operational advantage. The Data Office provides data services across DI and wider Government incorporating activities such as data access, discoverability, interoperability and data exploitation. The team also aims to understand the wider data landscape – in use, planned and potential – across MOD, HMG and by our partners and allies, and drive integration.

Defence Intelligence works for the safety, security and prosperity of the UK and our Allies. DI senses, understands and acts.

• We are an organisation based on brilliant people – our focus is as much building the team as completing the task. We take pride in our leadership and management approach, based on our core values of courage, candour, creativity and community. Our organisational culture prizes professional excellence, collaboration by default, diverse representation, and inclusion. Central to this is our focus on learning, training and development.
• We lead and manage our foundational data, intelligence and assessment with professional rigour and subject area and a strong customer focus. Our impact spans from the strategic to the tactical, at one end ensuring the UK nuclear deterrent and at the other, providing intelligence support directly to troops in contact.
• We provide extraordinary insight, advice and advantage to decision-makers, responding to strategic challenges and acute threat. We keep watch and advise on other global, regional, thematic, and operational issues, maintaining worldwide 24/7 awareness.
• Our powerful intelligence operations create effects that advance national security outcomes.
• Through the MOD’s Function of Intelligence, we partner strongly with the Front Line Commands to have Defence-wide impact and we work closely with the UK’s other Intelligence Agencies.
• We sponsor the National Cyber Force (NCF), partnering with GCHQ and SIS to enable the NCF’s Offensive Cyber mission.
• We are a uniquely trusted, reliable and effective international partner and work closely with counterpart organisations in other nations.

In all our work we focus on innovation and improving for the future, continuously evolving our organisation, people, technology and tradecraft to bring intelligence advantage now and in the future.

Person specification

The main functions of the role will include, but not limited to:

• Leading the Architecture and Engineering teams within the DI DO.
• Ensuring that Defence Intelligence improves its digital services to consumers through technical development and operationalisation of innovative techniques and projects.
• Support the DI CDO in the development of Digital Strategies and Dir S&E in the development of the DI 10-year Strategy.
• Provide a clear operational strategy to the DI Data Office.
• Ensure that DI understand the DI Data Office mission and support DI CDO in communications regarding Information and Data Services.
• Drive the development of standards and practices which enable the digital transformation of DI.
• Provide appropriate direction, support and guidance to delivery organisations, single Services and joint functions in order to advance the Single Intelligence Environment and Information
• Advantage in a data centric and service-oriented manner.

You will be based at either Main Building, London, or RAF Wyton with frequent travel to other DI, Defence Digital and Contractor locations as required. This job role is suitable for hybrid working, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, blending a balance of attendance in the workplace (the permanent duty station and working from home) as a personal choice. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

Behaviours

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

• Leadership
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Leadership
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

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

• Functional Competences for Chief Data Architect
• Functional Competences for Principal Technical Architect