As Deputy Director, Head of End User Compute Services, you will:
Leadership & Strategy
- Lead, motivate and develop a team of around 200 professionals across multiple locations, building a progressive and inclusive culture that has customer focus at its core.
- Develop a compelling vision, strategy and transformation roadmap for End User Compute Services, to ensure that services meet the evolving needs of our users.
- Ensure this vision and strategy is aligned to the wider Justice Digital strategy and roadmap.
- Provide visible leadership for End User Compute professionals, role model positive behaviours and professional excellence.
- Communicate key messages, drive communities and provide a voice for the function, inspiring and creating a team that individuals feel proud to be a part of.
- Work as part of the Technology Services Leadership team to set strategy and direction, create a shared sense of purpose, and ensure that collectively we are achieving our overarching goals.
Service and Technology Transformation
- Build an understanding of flexible working trends, emerging technologies and delivery methods to inform the change agenda for End User Compute services.
- Work with business partners and other colleagues to prioritise change, both incremental and transformational, within available funding.
- Take responsibility for the delivery of change, using agile delivery methodologies and a proportionate approach to risk to deliver at pace.
- Develop and deliver service roadmaps for all End User Compute services.
- Ensure End User Compute services perform to agreed standards.
- Implement appropriate tooling and processes to effectively manage End User Compute services, working proactively to prevent problems, and quickly identifying and rectifying problems where they do occur.
Financial and Commercial Management
- Manage a budget of £150m+, prioritising spend to deliver value for money, and continuously seeking opportunities for cost savings and efficiencies.
- Secure additional funding as required for the delivery of change to the services through effective demonstration of both return on investment and wider benefits.
- Work with colleagues to ensure the performance and risk of existing suppliers and contracts is robustly managed.
- Develop good working relationships with existing and future suppliers, setting the direction for the future commercial strategy for infrastructure services.
Line management
- Line management of 6 Grade 6 leaders, each of which manage a deeply specialised area that impacts all users of Justice Digital Services.
- The combined End User Compute teams have around 120 staff currently and are predicted to grow to around 200 as we deliver our in-sourcing agenda over the next 12 months.
- The Deputy Director, End User Compute Services role is outlined in red in the organisation chart to the right.
We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.
To apply for this post, you will need to complete the application process though our chosen executive search provider, People Scout, accessed via the following link Job description - Ministry of Justice (promotingpeople.co.uk).
