Government Digital & Data
Location London, Glasgow, Croydon, Manchester or Sheffield. Frequent travel to 2 Marsham Street, London will be required if based elsewhere in the UK. About the job Job summary Home Office Digital designs, builds and runs the technology and services that deliver, at scale, some of the UK's most critical and well-used public services. The digital capability plays a critical part in every part of the Home Office in delivering its mission from how we secure the border and control immigration to issues passports and reducing and preventing crime, supporting these services that impact millions of people every year. The Home Office Digital estate consists of more than 600 systems, enabling critical services such as; 13 million Electronic Travel Authorisations since launch 3 million visa applications annually 130 million border checks each year 7 million passport applications annually 140 million police checks on people, vehicles, and property Migration and Borders Digital (M&B Digital) is part of Home Office Digital. We are a Portfolio of around 3,500 dedicated professionals made up of civil servants and suppliers working together to develop some of the most challenging and transformative technology products, supporting critical programmes within the Migration and Borders system. Working closely with colleagues in the Migration and Borders mission, we also support a number of the Home Office's capabilities such as Citizenship Services, Immigration Enforcement, Border Force and the Asylum Group. We jointly design services, build, run and sustain them to enable some of the government's most important strategic outcomes, notably the legitimate movement of people and goods to support economic prosperity. Job description There are four roles available: Asylum Independent Immigration Appeals Authority Digital Deputy Director - This role provides strategic leadership and programme delivery of the Independent Immigration Appeals Authority (IIAA) Programme. This role leads the design, development and delivery of the Programme including all related products and digital services across Home Office Digital, overseeing a blended team of approximately 50 Civil Servants, Managed Suppliers, and managing an annual budget of circa £60 million. The programme scope and budget continues to develop and be defined. Asylum Transformation Digital Deputy Director - This role provides strategic leadership, programme delivery, and continuous improvement of digital services across the totality of Asylum Group Directorate and Programmatic structures, part of the wider Migration and Borders system. This role leads the development and delivery of Asylum related programmes and projects, products and digital services, overseeing a blended team of approximately 150 Civil Servants, Managed Suppliers, and managing an annual budget exceeding £150 million. Borders, Compliance and Enforcement Digital Deputy Director - This role provides strategic leadership, programme delivery, and continuous improvement of digital services across the Border Security Command (BSC) including Home Office Intelligence (HOI), Immigration Enforcement (IE) and Border Force (BF), all as part of the wider Migration and Borders system. This role leads the development and delivery of BSC, IE and BF related programmes and projects, products and digital services, overseeing a blended team of approximately 150 Civil Servants, Managed Suppliers, and managing an annual budget exceeding £150 million Passports, Citizenship & Civil Registration Digital Deputy Director - This role provides strategic leadership, programme delivery, and continuous improvement of digital services across the UK's passport and civil registration domains, all as part of the wider Migration and Borders system. This role leads the development and delivery of Passports and Civil Registration products, platforms and digital services, overseeing a blended team of approximately 600 Civil Servants and suppliers, and managing an annual budget exceeding £100 million. Key responsibilities: The posts will report into the Migration & Borders Digital Directors and will be part of senior leadership team as well as part of the wider Home Office Digital leadership. Strategic Digital leadership: Set and drive a compelling digital strategy, vision and roadmap. Balance immediate operational priorities with long-term transformation, future trends and wider Home Office and government objectives. Product, Programme and Service Delivery: Lead delivery of high-priority programmes and product portfolios. Embed end-to-end product lifecycle management and ensure services are user-centred, secure, robust, scalable and aligned across policy, operations and digital. Live Service and Continuous Improvement: Ensure effective service management, operational resilience and cyber security. Use performance data, user feedback and emerging technology to improve quality, accessibility and public value. Stakeholder Engagement: Build strategic relationships across business areas, government, suppliers and industry. Translate complex digital issues clearly, build consensus, secure buy-in and provide transparent reporting on progress, risk and challenge. People Leadership: Provide inspirational leadership to multidisciplinary, distributed and blended teams. Empower decision-making, create an inclusive culture of curiosity and experimentation, develop talent and actively support succession planning. Financial, Commercial and Supplier Leadership: Prioritise digital investment, people and projects in line with strategic goals. Manage budgets, contracts and supplier relationships with clear accountability, propriety and value for money. Strategic Alignment: Working with Policy, System Design and Home Office Analysis and Insight to deliver systemic change, recognising the inter-dependencies across the system and delivering across multiple delivery roadmaps alongside Home Office Digital teams and wider Migration and Borders domains. Data, Ethics and responsible Innovation: Champion data ethics and AI governance, ensuring new technology is adopted responsibly and supports public and organisational interests. Person specification Essential Criteria The successful candidate will need to demonstrate: Proven senior leadership of large-scale digital transformation within the public sector. Experience of leading secure, robust, scalable and user-centred digital products, platforms or services at national scale, with clear measures of technical performance, service impact and public value. Demonstrable expertise in a core digital discipline, such as product, delivery, service or engineering, combined with strong portfolio, business change and end-to-end service leadership. Proven ability to build strategic relationships and deliver in high-profile environments involving Ministers, senior leaders, other government departments, industry partners and suppliers. A strong record of leading multidisciplinary, distributed and blended teams, empowering decision-making, developing capability and talent, supporting succession planning, and fostering inclusion, curiosity, innovation and continuous learning. Strong financial, commercial and supplier leadership, including prioritising investment and managing significant budgets or contracts of £15 million or more to deliver value for money and public value. Evidence of anticipating emerging technology and digital disruption, and promoting responsible innovation, cyber security, data ethics and AI governance.
Location London, Glasgow, Croydon, Manchester or Sheffield. Frequent travel to 2 Marsham Street, London will be required if based elsewhere in the UK. About the job Job summary Home Office Digital designs, builds and runs the technology and services that deliver, at scale, some of the UK's most critical and well-used public services. The digital capability plays a critical part in every part of the Home Office in delivering its mission from how we secure the border and control immigration to issues passports and reducing and preventing crime, supporting these services that impact millions of people every year. The Home Office Digital estate consists of more than 600 systems, enabling critical services such as; 13 million Electronic Travel Authorisations since launch 3 million visa applications annually 130 million border checks each year 7 million passport applications annually 140 million police checks on people, vehicles, and property Migration and Borders Digital (M&B Digital) is part of Home Office Digital. We are a Portfolio of around 3,500 dedicated professionals made up of civil servants and suppliers working together to develop some of the most challenging and transformative technology products, supporting critical programmes within the Migration and Borders system. Working closely with colleagues in the Migration and Borders mission, we also support a number of the Home Office's capabilities such as Citizenship Services, Immigration Enforcement, Border Force and the Asylum Group. We jointly design services, build, run and sustain them to enable some of the government's most important strategic outcomes, notably the legitimate movement of people and goods to support economic prosperity. Job description There are four roles available: Asylum Independent Immigration Appeals Authority Digital Deputy Director - This role provides strategic leadership and programme delivery of the Independent Immigration Appeals Authority (IIAA) Programme. This role leads the design, development and delivery of the Programme including all related products and digital services across Home Office Digital, overseeing a blended team of approximately 50 Civil Servants, Managed Suppliers, and managing an annual budget of circa £60 million. The programme scope and budget continues to develop and be defined. Asylum Transformation Digital Deputy Director - This role provides strategic leadership, programme delivery, and continuous improvement of digital services across the totality of Asylum Group Directorate and Programmatic structures, part of the wider Migration and Borders system. This role leads the development and delivery of Asylum related programmes and projects, products and digital services, overseeing a blended team of approximately 150 Civil Servants, Managed Suppliers, and managing an annual budget exceeding £150 million. Borders, Compliance and Enforcement Digital Deputy Director - This role provides strategic leadership, programme delivery, and continuous improvement of digital services across the Border Security Command (BSC) including Home Office Intelligence (HOI), Immigration Enforcement (IE) and Border Force (BF), all as part of the wider Migration and Borders system. This role leads the development and delivery of BSC, IE and BF related programmes and projects, products and digital services, overseeing a blended team of approximately 150 Civil Servants, Managed Suppliers, and managing an annual budget exceeding £150 million Passports, Citizenship & Civil Registration Digital Deputy Director - This role provides strategic leadership, programme delivery, and continuous improvement of digital services across the UK's passport and civil registration domains, all as part of the wider Migration and Borders system. This role leads the development and delivery of Passports and Civil Registration products, platforms and digital services, overseeing a blended team of approximately 600 Civil Servants and suppliers, and managing an annual budget exceeding £100 million. Key responsibilities: The posts will report into the Migration & Borders Digital Directors and will be part of senior leadership team as well as part of the wider Home Office Digital leadership. Strategic Digital leadership: Set and drive a compelling digital strategy, vision and roadmap. Balance immediate operational priorities with long-term transformation, future trends and wider Home Office and government objectives. Product, Programme and Service Delivery: Lead delivery of high-priority programmes and product portfolios. Embed end-to-end product lifecycle management and ensure services are user-centred, secure, robust, scalable and aligned across policy, operations and digital. Live Service and Continuous Improvement: Ensure effective service management, operational resilience and cyber security. Use performance data, user feedback and emerging technology to improve quality, accessibility and public value. Stakeholder Engagement: Build strategic relationships across business areas, government, suppliers and industry. Translate complex digital issues clearly, build consensus, secure buy-in and provide transparent reporting on progress, risk and challenge. People Leadership: Provide inspirational leadership to multidisciplinary, distributed and blended teams. Empower decision-making, create an inclusive culture of curiosity and experimentation, develop talent and actively support succession planning. Financial, Commercial and Supplier Leadership: Prioritise digital investment, people and projects in line with strategic goals. Manage budgets, contracts and supplier relationships with clear accountability, propriety and value for money. Strategic Alignment: Working with Policy, System Design and Home Office Analysis and Insight to deliver systemic change, recognising the inter-dependencies across the system and delivering across multiple delivery roadmaps alongside Home Office Digital teams and wider Migration and Borders domains. Data, Ethics and responsible Innovation: Champion data ethics and AI governance, ensuring new technology is adopted responsibly and supports public and organisational interests. Person specification Essential Criteria The successful candidate will need to demonstrate: Proven senior leadership of large-scale digital transformation within the public sector. Experience of leading secure, robust, scalable and user-centred digital products, platforms or services at national scale, with clear measures of technical performance, service impact and public value. Demonstrable expertise in a core digital discipline, such as product, delivery, service or engineering, combined with strong portfolio, business change and end-to-end service leadership. Proven ability to build strategic relationships and deliver in high-profile environments involving Ministers, senior leaders, other government departments, industry partners and suppliers. A strong record of leading multidisciplinary, distributed and blended teams, empowering decision-making, developing capability and talent, supporting succession planning, and fostering inclusion, curiosity, innovation and continuous learning. Strong financial, commercial and supplier leadership, including prioritising investment and managing significant budgets or contracts of £15 million or more to deliver value for money and public value. Evidence of anticipating emerging technology and digital disruption, and promoting responsible innovation, cyber security, data ethics and AI governance.
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Southampton, Hampshire
Your new company Our client is a global leader in the healthcare and medical technology sector, developing innovative products that improve the quality of life for millions of people worldwide. With operations spanning more than 130 countries and a strong reputation for research, engineering excellence, and continuous innovation, the organisation remains at the forefront of its industry. This is an opportunity to join a growing technology function within a highly successful international organisation that invests heavily in its people, digital capability, and long-term innovation. You'll work alongside talented colleagues across multiple disciplines, helping to shape and deliver technology solutions that support a complex and evolving global business. Your new role As Transformation Programme Lead, you will play a pivotal role in driving the successful delivery of a large-scale business transformation programme. Acting as the deputy to the Programme Director, you'll take ownership of day-to-day programme execution, ensuring multiple workstreams remain aligned, on track and focused on achieving agreed business outcomes. You'll maintain visibility of key milestones, risks, dependencies and delivery challenges, escalating significant issues where required and supporting the implementation of decisions made through programme governance forums. This is a highly collaborative role that works across a broad range of business functions, including Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, Regulatory and Technology teams. You'll coordinate activities across the programme, bringing together workstream leads and stakeholders to ensure priorities, plans and delivery activities remain aligned. A key aspect of the role will be identifying potential conflicts, bottlenecks and risks, facilitating collaboration between teams and helping drive solutions to keep delivery moving forward. Working closely with the Programme Director, you'll be responsible for supporting governance processes, ensuring actions and decisions are tracked through to completion, and preparing materials for leadership meetings and steering committee reviews. You'll monitor programme performance against agreed objectives, maintain momentum across complex initiatives and ensure transparency of progress to senior stakeholders. The role also requires a strong focus on delivery support and intervention. You'll proactively identify emerging risks and challenges, facilitate issue resolution, coordinate recovery plans where objectives are at risk, and help safeguard customer experience, operational performance and overall programme outcomes. Where necessary, you'll escalate matters requiring leadership or Steering Committee intervention to ensure timely decision-making. Alongside programme delivery responsibilities, you will provide oversight and direction across Business Readiness, Change Management and Internal Communications activities. You'll ensure organisational readiness plans remain aligned to programme priorities and deployment schedules, helping the business successfully adopt change. This includes capturing lessons learned, driving continuous improvement initiatives and ensuring the programme leaves a lasting positive impact on the wider organisation. What you'll need to succeed The successful candidate will have significant experience operating within high-profile, business-critical programmes, engaging senior executives and cross-functional leadership teams to drive alignment, decision-making and successful outcomes. You will be comfortable influencing stakeholders at all levels of an organisation and have a demonstrated ability to build consensus across complex multinational environments where priorities, dependencies and challenges must be carefully managed. A strong background in organisational adoption, business readiness and change management is essential. You'll have experience developing and implementing communication, stakeholder engagement and readiness strategies that support the successful transition to new operating models, processes and ways of working. You will understand how to drive behavioural change at scale and ensure that transformation programmes deliver lasting business benefits beyond technology or process change alone. We're looking for someone with exceptional communication, facilitation and stakeholder management skills who is confident leading workshops, influencing senior leaders and bringing together diverse groups to achieve common objectives. The ability to navigate ambiguity, resolve complex challenges and maintain momentum across multiple workstreams will be key to success in the role. What you'll get in return You'll receive competitive compensation and a fantastic benefits package including, bonus, private medical, health cash plan, 25 days holiday, pension scheme, life assurance, access to our Wellness Platform to support you in mental health and wellbeing, a discounted contact lens scheme. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk
Your new company Our client is a global leader in the healthcare and medical technology sector, developing innovative products that improve the quality of life for millions of people worldwide. With operations spanning more than 130 countries and a strong reputation for research, engineering excellence, and continuous innovation, the organisation remains at the forefront of its industry. This is an opportunity to join a growing technology function within a highly successful international organisation that invests heavily in its people, digital capability, and long-term innovation. You'll work alongside talented colleagues across multiple disciplines, helping to shape and deliver technology solutions that support a complex and evolving global business. Your new role As Transformation Programme Lead, you will play a pivotal role in driving the successful delivery of a large-scale business transformation programme. Acting as the deputy to the Programme Director, you'll take ownership of day-to-day programme execution, ensuring multiple workstreams remain aligned, on track and focused on achieving agreed business outcomes. You'll maintain visibility of key milestones, risks, dependencies and delivery challenges, escalating significant issues where required and supporting the implementation of decisions made through programme governance forums. This is a highly collaborative role that works across a broad range of business functions, including Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, Regulatory and Technology teams. You'll coordinate activities across the programme, bringing together workstream leads and stakeholders to ensure priorities, plans and delivery activities remain aligned. A key aspect of the role will be identifying potential conflicts, bottlenecks and risks, facilitating collaboration between teams and helping drive solutions to keep delivery moving forward. Working closely with the Programme Director, you'll be responsible for supporting governance processes, ensuring actions and decisions are tracked through to completion, and preparing materials for leadership meetings and steering committee reviews. You'll monitor programme performance against agreed objectives, maintain momentum across complex initiatives and ensure transparency of progress to senior stakeholders. The role also requires a strong focus on delivery support and intervention. You'll proactively identify emerging risks and challenges, facilitate issue resolution, coordinate recovery plans where objectives are at risk, and help safeguard customer experience, operational performance and overall programme outcomes. Where necessary, you'll escalate matters requiring leadership or Steering Committee intervention to ensure timely decision-making. Alongside programme delivery responsibilities, you will provide oversight and direction across Business Readiness, Change Management and Internal Communications activities. You'll ensure organisational readiness plans remain aligned to programme priorities and deployment schedules, helping the business successfully adopt change. This includes capturing lessons learned, driving continuous improvement initiatives and ensuring the programme leaves a lasting positive impact on the wider organisation. What you'll need to succeed The successful candidate will have significant experience operating within high-profile, business-critical programmes, engaging senior executives and cross-functional leadership teams to drive alignment, decision-making and successful outcomes. You will be comfortable influencing stakeholders at all levels of an organisation and have a demonstrated ability to build consensus across complex multinational environments where priorities, dependencies and challenges must be carefully managed. A strong background in organisational adoption, business readiness and change management is essential. You'll have experience developing and implementing communication, stakeholder engagement and readiness strategies that support the successful transition to new operating models, processes and ways of working. You will understand how to drive behavioural change at scale and ensure that transformation programmes deliver lasting business benefits beyond technology or process change alone. We're looking for someone with exceptional communication, facilitation and stakeholder management skills who is confident leading workshops, influencing senior leaders and bringing together diverse groups to achieve common objectives. The ability to navigate ambiguity, resolve complex challenges and maintain momentum across multiple workstreams will be key to success in the role. What you'll get in return You'll receive competitive compensation and a fantastic benefits package including, bonus, private medical, health cash plan, 25 days holiday, pension scheme, life assurance, access to our Wellness Platform to support you in mental health and wellbeing, a discounted contact lens scheme. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk
