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Data Strategy and Product Advisor (DM)

Closing date for applications: 23/12/2019
OVERVIEW OF ROLE
Specialist role
 Delivery manager
Summary of the work
 The Business Delivery Team is the technology partner for multiple Product Delivery Units across DWP, responsible for managing, delivering and governing data products and services to meet user needs. There is a strong focus on eliciting user needs and ensuring the technology is driven by validated user need.
Latest start date
 06/04/2020
Expected contract length
 12 months
Location
 No specific location, eg they can work remotely
Organisation the work is for
 Department for Work and Pensions
Maximum day rate
 Please specify required day rate
ABOUT THE WORK
Early market engagement
 A discovery exercise has been carried out to understand how to maximise integration and re-use potential, in order to gain a better understanding of opportunities for integration across the existing programme. This process has produced an interim target architecture and proposed team arrangement.
Who the specialist will work with
 The specialist will work directly on a supplier-led team with other data and product specialists. The specialist will advise data stewards and product owners across DWP as required.
What the specialist will work on
 Working within the Business Data Team, advising on data products and services and overarching data strategy, activities will include: 1. Advise D&A product owners, SMEs and Senior Leadership Teams on the latest data patterns and data strategy, to allow D&A to deliver a new operating model and provide the best possible service to its customers. 2. Advise on data product and service design best practices. 3. Advice D&A on the best strategy to move to a decentralised operating model. 4. Advice on the delivery of a new decentralised data operating model. 5. The specialist will advise on best practices.
WORK SETUP
Address where the work will take place
 Location is flexible but there will be a requirement to travel to Tothill Street, London, SW1 when necessary.
Working arrangements
 Flexible - All expenses shall be capped in accordance with the buyer's travel and expense policy.
Security clearance
 Pre-arranged SC clearance is required
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Additional terms and conditions
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EVALUATION CRITERIA
How many specialists to evaluate
 3
Cultural fit criteria
 Be a self starter and able to demonstrate independently delivering value without direct guidance or control Demonstrate ability to be transparent and collaborative when making decisions Demonstarte ability to take responsibility for their own work Demonstrate ability to be tenacious in the face of adversity Demonstrable experience in actively sharing knowledge and experiences with other team members Demonstrate ability to work collaboratievely with existing teams and other supplier teams
Assessment methods
 Interview
Evaluation weighting
 Technical competence 70% Cultural fit 10% Price 20%
EXPERIENCE
Essential skills and experience
  • 2+ years experience of driving large scale data transformation and migration strategy within large UK public sector organisation
  • Demonstrable experience within the last 2 years of successfully negotiating digital governance frameworks within large UK public sector organisation
  • 2+ years experience with pensions operational performance workflow software and data structures
  • Demonstrable experience within the last 2 years of leading a project involved with integrating on-premise services with cloud environments
  • Demonstrable experience of finance reporting within large UK public sector organisation
  • 5+ years senior stakeholder engagement and management including the ability to build trust and relationships with disaffected stakeholders
  • 2+ years experience working in organisations new to agile ways of working
  • Demonstrable experience within the last 2 years of data product and service design and implementation.
  • 2+ years experience working with the latest data mesh cloud patterns and enterprise data strategies.
  • Self starter, able to work without direct guidance and under their own control
Nice-to-have skills and experience
  • 2+ years experience of working with digital delivery teams within the Department for Work and Pensions
  • 5+ years working with teams delivering solutions in Amazon Web Services
EXPRESS INTEREST
Closing date for applications: 23/12/2019

Data Strategy and Product Advisor (DM)

Closing date for applications: 23/12/2019


Specialist role:

Delivery manager

Location:

No specific location, eg they can work remotely

Organisation:

Department for Work and Pensions

Maximum day rate:

Please specify required day rate
FULL DETAILS / EXPRESS INTEREST HERE
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